> If I want to make more, I take on more projects.

Or you can increase the transactions per customer. You don't have to have more projects/clients to make more money. There are only so many projects you'll be able to work on.

However, if you already have 10 - 15 customers, and you increase the # of transactions per customer, you can reach 7 figure revenue per year.

I guess I don't fully understand what you're saying here. For me, a "project" is "I'm going to do something for you, and you'll pay me." The only way I could gain more money that way is by raising my rate. (My projects are one-to-one.)

Otherwise, time becomes the biggest limitation. I've toyed with the idea of hiring people to work for me, but I really like sleeping at night, and I'm not sure that I can do that if I'm worrying about being able to pay people. I've heard that more people will spawn more projects and more money, but time and time again I come back to the thinking: I'm not unhappy with what I have now. No need to rock the boat.

Time, as always, will tell.

I think he means upselling and/or offering more paid services/products to the same customers. Hosting, a new theme, regular blog posts (outsourced, of course), plugins for social networks, integration with whatever, constant monitoring, etc. - ideally on a subscription basis. This way, you can make more money with the same number of clients.

I agree with you on some points, it's a lot of work to earn passive income and during my first year trying to earn passive income on the side I lost money and incurred in a debt of around 50K USD... but last month I finally got the hang of it, and after putting 30 hours a week after my fulltime job during my first year of trial and error, last month I grossed 10K merely working about 10 hours a week after my fulltime job... That said, it's possible and it's not in its entirety bullshit.

I guessed the name of the company right away when you said "well known for treating developers right, but I still needed to make sure it was what I thought it was.

Could you provide a little bit more of details on how the founders disagreed with you? I'm very much interested in knowing more about it.

Email me, it's not the sort of stuff to discuss publicly.

I read in the yelp reviews that they were singing in the middle of the nights, and throwing out parties during the week.

The apartment complex should write lease violations to offenders (or Google)

they could have used a taser

I'm going to tell you what other people haven't told yet.

Nobody cares whether you went to App Academy or learned how to code in your mom's garage.

Nobody cares if you have enough skill to rewrite the linux kernel from scratch.

If you want a job, you have to understand hiring managers needs and fears, and most importantly you need to know how to address them.

If you know how to get things done on time, and on budget then you're hirable.

While it shows passion that you built yet-another-asteroids-port it's irrelevant for the most part.

and this is coming from one 25 yo software engineer without a college degree making an income way above average and hardly 2 years of real experience.

So do you have any actual advice or are you just here to tell me that I'm doing it wrong? I invite constructive criticism, but I get enough destructive criticism as it is. I don't need any more.

He provided plenty of great insight, do you not see it?

His emphasis is on: completion, budget, and timeframe. That's pretty much accurate. Being a good salesman or marketer is nice too. Nothing else matters. Everything else is a distraction or needless worry.

I understand what he said. What I don't understand is how someone in my situation shows evidence of completion, budget, and time frame. I suppose my final project will hit two of the three, but I have no way to prove that I will deliver under budget.

if you deliver on time, you deliver on budget...

Well that's actual advice boy, it's up to you if you still want to think that someone is going to hand you a job just because you need one.

I never said you didn't deserve a job, that's an invisible script of yours... all I'm saying is that you're doing it wrong by focusing in the wrong things.

Nowadays telling you the truth is being arrogant and rude, oh well... good luck to you boy, I'm not the one in need for a job.

I came here to see if anyone else noticed the sexists comments under the article, what a shame.

However it's not difficult to find sexists pricks in tech.

>However it's not difficult to find sexists pricks in tech.

Or online, or in public.

You're probably just the only two who read the comments...

I think the comments were removed, but one of them said that she should build a body-powered vibrator and she would be millionaire.

I don't think podcasts alone will make you a better software engineer.

Most software engineer spend countless hours perfecting their craft, and forget about soft skills that will make you more "likeable" and will help you advance further your career.

I didn't ask for podcasts that will, by themselves, make me a better software engineer. I'm just looking for ones that are more productive than just listening to music in my car on the way to work.

So if I crawl lyrics website, am I violating their copyright?

I'm not displaying the lyrics, I'm just matching lyrics with user generated content to come up with song recommendations.

I'm not a lawyer, but Google is doing the same and many other companies too. They never get sued, Google even caches your entire site without asking explicitly. The archive.org Project even copies to whole internet and luckily get's away with it.

Other than that, I'm avid when it comes to Ontologic, Semantic, Neurologic or Stochastic systems and would like to tell you that simply using Semantics wil not lead to a working solution.

If you don't have a large professional (not social) network, then you must start building one.

Have you tried

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs ??

That's how I found my dream job! and I'm hunted by in-house recruiters all the time, so I'd say that's a good place to start.

When I registered, it required an invitation, if it stills requires one, shoot me an email (see my profile) and I'll happily send one your way.

Hey there is no email in your profile, but yeah please send me the invite. Thank you!

Here is a link to sign up for Stack Overflow Careers: http://bit.ly/14P2rbs

Awesome! thank you.