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You’re on your own now! part 2

Going freelance was a thing that was always in my mind, but I didt not have a concise plan on how to do it.   I always worked fulltime for employers, and only seldom met freelance working people.

Turns out: it’s very easy!  Just quit your day job!

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You’re on your own now! part 1

Well, not really.  I’m planning to, though.

I have been an employee practically since I got out of school, in August 1999.  I have been been building up quite some years of experience in all things IT related.  I started out as a Web Designer, but was quickly coding and scripting away in Perl, PHP, ASP, ColdFusion and Javascript.  I learned how to use Linux, and applied this knowledge in small scale web hosting situations, and international hosting environments.  I learned the inner workings of networks, how name servers work, how firewalls and proxies work.  I got to touch Windows Server administration, building and testing calamity plans, installing and migrating Exchange Servers, working with SMS, developing with and maintaining of SQL Server. Continue reading ‘You’re on your own now! part 1′