Hi, so in my second year of university, I started freelancing because I wanted the experience of working on a real project and it went really well for the first 4 or 5 months I was making sites in basic HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL for local photographers or some portfolio sites, etc.
But after 4 months I felt like I am just doing the same thing again and again, Starting with HTML, CSS then writing similar CRUD functions in PHP and it just kind of stopped me from going into the core of anything. Every day I was just making plain websites. Also, the clients and the whole situation was making me anxious.
So after a year of freelancing, I left it and started building random things and after that, I built WebGames, NPM packages, VSCode extensions which helped me a lot in understanding the core.
Now I am in my final year of engineering and I've had some of the biggest achievements of my life because of these random things I built and I am very proud of them. Also, I interned at an e-commerce company and I loved the culture. It was the team of some really talented people and they taught me a lot of things.
So yes I am going to pass out next year and probably going to join a company and do a job.
Also, throughout these things, I had the advantage of being a student so I never really had to worry about the money so moving from freelancing(which was paying me) to open source(which did not pay me anything) was worth it because of all the knowledge I got and things I built.
My advice would be to do your research and not necessarily join the first company you can if it doesn't feel right. I have turned a few companies down in my time before and looking back am really thankful for it.
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Hi, so in my second year of university, I started freelancing because I wanted the experience of working on a real project and it went really well for the first 4 or 5 months I was making sites in basic HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL for local photographers or some portfolio sites, etc.
But after 4 months I felt like I am just doing the same thing again and again, Starting with HTML, CSS then writing similar CRUD functions in PHP and it just kind of stopped me from going into the core of anything. Every day I was just making plain websites. Also, the clients and the whole situation was making me anxious.
So after a year of freelancing, I left it and started building random things and after that, I built WebGames, NPM packages, VSCode extensions which helped me a lot in understanding the core.
Now I am in my final year of engineering and I've had some of the biggest achievements of my life because of these random things I built and I am very proud of them. Also, I interned at an e-commerce company and I loved the culture. It was the team of some really talented people and they taught me a lot of things.
So yes I am going to pass out next year and probably going to join a company and do a job.
Also, throughout these things, I had the advantage of being a student so I never really had to worry about the money so moving from freelancing(which was paying me) to open source(which did not pay me anything) was worth it because of all the knowledge I got and things I built.
Thank you for sharing your story!
Thanks for sharing your story too! :)
My advice would be to do your research and not necessarily join the first company you can if it doesn't feel right. I have turned a few companies down in my time before and looking back am really thankful for it.