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    #11
    Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
    It isn't often that we get nice real requests for help.
    I must remember not to drink coffee whilst reading this forum. It doesn't look good when it comes out of your nose.

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      #12
      Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
      Good Luck Victor !

      Remember, if you please, that when you tell the agents you are looking for work, if it was me, I would not mention that you are designing a website from scratch. Otherwise this might put them off your skills and they may try and offer you a much lower rate.

      Thanks for your post. It isn't often that we get nice real requests for help.
      Si posse, recte, si non, quocumque modo rem

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        #13
        Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
        Good Luck Victor !

        Remember, if you please, that when you tell the agents you are looking for work, if it was me, I would not mention that you are designing a website from scratch. Otherwise this might put them off your skills and they may try and offer you a much lower rate.

        Thanks for your post. It isn't often that we get nice real requests for help.
        Very subtle you may have a future with the security services

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          #14
          Originally posted by victorantos View Post
          Don't understand me wrong,

          Money are important, but there are things more important for me than earning 20-35 pounds/hour

          I just want to create a succesful web application.

          You should be optimistic dot net or other technologies aren't only for finance industry!
          This sounds like a job for www.rentacoder.com
          This site is where customers place requests to have websites created for them, and programmers like you can put up a "bid" saying what you can do for them and how much you will charge. The customer then chooses someone to do the work for them.

          The problem is that for every customer who wants work done for them there are around 20 bids, so it is not easy to get work.
          Also the pay is TERRIBLE (I paid just £70 for a simple .net website)

          Good luck.

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            #15
            Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
            Good Luck Victor !

            Remember, if you please, that when you tell the agents you are looking for work, if it was me, I would not mention that you are designing a website from scratch. Otherwise this might put them off your skills and they may try and offer you a much lower rate.

            Thanks for your post. It isn't often that we get nice real requests for help.
            Quality post!!

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              #16
              Originally posted by victorantos View Post

              I just want to create a succesful web application.
              Start an Open Source project, or join an existing one. That way you will gain experience as well as contributing to something that will look good on your CV.
              Politicians are wonderfull people, as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, like working for a living!

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                #17
                Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
                Good Luck Victor !

                Remember, if you please, that when you tell the agents you are looking for work, if it was me, I would not mention that you are designing a website from scratch. Otherwise this might put them off your skills and they may try and offer you a much lower rate.

                Thanks for your post. It isn't often that we get nice real requests for help.
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                  #18
                  back after 3 years

                  what I've done in the last 3 years since I came to uk

                  - some freelancing
                  - worked for about 1.5 years for a company in Birmingham, developing e-commerce website
                  - had my first contract last year, currently I'm on the 3rd contract (Czech Republic), it ends in November 2011

                  in my free time I developed several websites but the most successful one is

                  www. templatesforfree.com has about 42K registered users and about 700 visitors/day

                  I'm still looking to develop a cool website that gets a lot of traffic and is high profitable

                  see you after 3 more years

                  Mod note: advert link removed (I felt sorry for him...)
                  UK asp.net C# IT Contractor

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by victorantos View Post
                    what I've done in the last 3 years...

                    free time I developed several websites but the most successful one is...has about 42K registered users..

                    see you after 3 more years
                    I've only done one website (well, application + site) in the last 3 years. Still, at 14 million registered users, I'm slightly ahead of you... Still, I've long since moved out of web work (too many Injuns. )

                    Nice to see things have worked out well for you. Best of luck.
                    nomadd liked this post

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                      #20
                      another year has gone,
                      didn't do too much contracting, only a few weeks in Oslo, Norway
                      I am now focusing on my own projects, my recent project is <mod snip> I'm not feeling sorry for him now...
                      UK asp.net C# IT Contractor

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