> I have a friend, who's finished his education and looking for work. I think the first thing a grad should be looking to do is to get better. I can't comment on the Py freelancing scene, but I will say that if he wants to make money he probably can, but that his software engineering skills will almost certainly suffer.
His first priority should be to get into a situation where he has superb people to learn from. This is most easily solved by getting a job at an interesting place with interesting people. It could also be solved by finding a small yet popular open source project that has a lead that knows his/her stuff and where all his commits would receive feedback. Either way, his focus should remain on getting better at what he's doing or his career will almost certainly be impacted in a few years when his peers turn out to be better engineers than he is. Good sources of freelance work: odesk.com and elance.com Payments in non INR currencies can be taken via Paypal (with certain limitations) or direct wire transfers. The websites I mentioned also provide an escrow service that can be useful when dealing with potentially flaky clients. The important thing to remember that freelancing is a business, and should be run as such. At a minimum, register a sole proprietorship and get a business account with SBI. Mixing your personal and business finances is a good way to have all sorts of accounting and taxation problems. Best, Sidu. http://c42.in http://rubymonk.com On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Vishal <vsapr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a friend, who's finished his education and looking for work. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
