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!
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