Freelancer Developers Lifestyle in 2018

[@ScottSaysStuff]

I hope your channel surpasses Simple Programmer. Your content is a lot less of an ad and has more useful content.

[@crypto.focused]

He already surpassed him if you take a look at the total number of views each new video gets. And yes, I agree 100% with you Scott

[@danielswearson1360]

I couldn’t agree more. I could care less about watching his videos on how to get out of the friend zone. Stefan is very responsive, informative and focused on the topic of programming.

[@tnetroP]

Scott Foltz Completely agree

[@PlayRiteProductions]

Yeah, I appreciate Stefan not taking off his shirt or flexing like Simple Programmer does.

[@danielswearson1360]

Competition is healthy

[@emiledesrosiers2132]

One day I was bored ... im a student in computer science ... then I searched for dev. vlog ... found a jewel : your channel ! Keep up the good work !

[@StefanMischook]

Thanks!

[@zetabyte0076]

Really his channel inspires us to developing every day.

[@atlaskaiser693]

love the humility of this guy

[@doitwithdevon]

The most beneficial thing that I have seen someone say on KZbin which I can tell you guys from about 20 years of experience myself is to listen to the Scope/Feature Creep story from 4:53 - 9:00 or so. Pay close attention to what Stefan is saying here and apply it. Otherwise, you will have loads of headaches, missed deadlines, angry clients, and sleepless nights working for an ever changing goal that while an app seemed quite realistic it has now changed into a project from Hell... Be very wary when client's start to ask for changes in the middle of development (or really, after you secure a contract [you've secured a contract with your employer/client right]). That is all, golden advice from a sage man in this video.

[@jamiehodgson9738]

Most in depth, meaningful content of any coding channel on the tube! From Liverpool UK

[@StefanMischook]

Thanks!

[@danielswearson1360]

I like what you said about not putting unnecessary stress on yourself. Having that freedom is key for me.

[@HamudiChi]

I stumbled on your videos a week ago and have benefited so much! You know what you are talking about. You give logical and realistic advice that a lot of the other people I've seen have always lacked..probably because of lack of experience. Thanks!! Cheers from Ottawa! :)

[@StefanMischook]

Thanks! My dad lives in Chelsea.

[@branjwong]

As a developer priming himself to dive into freelance work, I really appreciate you putting up this video. I learned a lot. Thanks a ton.

[@StefanMischook]

You're welcome. I have a lot more about freelancing and small business coming.

[@branjwong]

awesome, cant wait

[@Todiros]

Great!

[@therealkbrackson]

I have a similar experience, I too enjoy the freedom, BUT I know a lot of people who want the same thing but don't realize this job demands a lot of skills and time. The communication one is key, because I've been a developer for 11 years and still have clients that expect unrealistic things and that's my fault (bug fixes, server errors, feature creep, that last 10% of time you talked about.) - still hard and still needs constant adaptation

[@Zybax1]

hey Stefan, just wanted to say thanks for the videos man, i recently discovered the channel and its like having the father i never had lol, i got my first developer job like a week ago, but after i gain more experience with clients and agile, and technologies i want to work as freelancer

[@StefanMischook]

Cool! I am super happy I am helping. :)

[@AdamE2000_]

Stef it think you need to make a video about your career and freelancing. Please make it your next video. Talk about how you never worked for anyone at any stage. I want to know how you learnt everything, all the programming languages, the web development all by yourself. It will help many people on their route to freelancing

[@StefanMischook]

Will do.

[@fansofpenguin9275]

@@StefanMischook have you already made this video about it? ☺️ if yes, which one? Thanks!

[@mendezcreative]

Great points. I'm a 3D freelance artist and the same applies to what I do. Thanks for sharing.

[@fivebyfivesound]

Extremely useful practical perspective and tips which I haven’t seen elsewhere on YT. Thank you 🙏🏽

[@StefanMischook]

I appreciate that!

[@user-rg2pf9wq2o]

You're like the peaceful version of Dr. Otto Octavius 🙃

[@StefanMischook]

LOL! You haven't seen me Saturday nights. ;)

[@neptunemike]

He does kinda have an Alfred Molina look, like he could be the missing Molina brother lol

[@zetabyte0076]

I was noted it too but I had not commented absolutely nothing up to now. 🤣👌

[@jalabi99]

Thank you for this! It's helped cement my career path choice for the next year. No more working for "The Man" :)

[@StefanMischook]

Cool.

[@busyrand]

Amazing Content. Thorough upload as usual. Absolute treat to watch. Thank you for sharing with such details and stories.

[@WRAABB491]

As I start my journey towards becoming a web developer that will get into into becoming a freelance web developer in the future this was much needed guidance. Thanks!

[@larsjorgen]

I'm currently studying cse - really interesting to hear from an experienced developer's point of view. Have you ever considered doing a podcast?

[@StefanMischook]

I am looking into that. I have a good friend of mine, someone I mentored in business, who built a multi million dollar business from scratch in just 2 years, and he wants to do a small business podcasts with me. I am looking at my schedule and considering. It could be cool, because he is NOT a coder. So it would be interesting to hear from both the nerdpreneur (me) and non-nerdpreneur point of view.

[@larsjorgen]

Yes Yes Yes.

[@jalabi99]

Yes, please! That would definitely be a podcast I would eagerly listen to!

[@COMB0RICO]

Good talk. I haven't heard this level of detail before.

[@Praxia1]

Awesome freelancer insights. And, I love your great point on UX/UI designs standing the test of time. Sometimes UI hits upon something almost timeless, so one doesn't necessarily need to completely overhaul sites and applications every 5 years to remain top-notch professional. Thank you!

[@ReneKubicka]

Thank you Stefan for doing this. It is really useful and interesting listening to your experience and advises. I live pretty similar lifestyle in Germany and going freelance was one of the best decisions I have made. Take care.

[@jakubrpawlowski]

Windows vs Mac was a great example of the quality of UI/UX work over time for similar product. Fortunately Microsoft finally ended up making a lot of good design decisions in current iteration of Windows. Yay for Windows 10! Anyways - thanks for the video!

[@tr233]

EJB 3.1 and 3.2 are cool, most times common Framework is Spring based project, personally i dont like Spring. I would be happy to learn more freelancer story , especially how you dealt with hard customers and government regulations.

[@outwithjohn]

After starting your course recently I’ve learnt loads compared to other courses teaching coding, I plan to start off doing freelancing once I know enough to do it

[@StefanMischook]

Congrats and thanks for publicly posting! If you don't mind, I would appreciate it if you left a review on Google: g.page/studioWebedu/review?mt

[@outwithjohn]

Stefan Mischook , it’s great to be doing a course that is structured properly for a change, and you have a great way to explain how things work and easy to understand. Unfortunately there’s a lot of people putting courses out that are terrible so thanks again for putting yours together it is easy to follow

[@jn2bbs]

A video on pricing would be great!

[@hometeam2526]

Very nice video! How do I get started freelancing as a new dev ( no experience)? Thanks

[@AdamoomadA]

Thanks for all your videos, Stefan. They motivate me! Stay cool in the heatwave!

[@StefanMischook]

Thanks!

[@dscheme4427]

You talk about yourself as being an entrepreneur first, a coder second, in one video (Might be wrong). What was the starting point of your import-export bizz, and how did that get its legs? i would like to hear more about how that venture came about, what makes you tick?

[@mongadilechesa7611]

Hi Stefan, thanks for your sharing your knowledge; I really enjoyed this video.

[@Todiros]

This was incredibly useful! I have so many freelance-related questions. Are you currently working as a freelancer?

[@StefanMischook]

No. I own StudioWeb ... a saas. I did freelance work for years in the past.

[@toddboothbee1361]

Yes, you reminded me that I have city envy and apartment envy. I've always loved Montreal, my favorite city.

[@jalabi99]

I want to move to Montreal one day. It seems like a wonderful little city.

[@StefanMischook]

It has its' charms.

[@toddboothbee1361]

I've had that ambition, and keep it in my back pocket. What do you mean by little city, though? It's about 2 million, which makes it 3 times the size of Boston, which, at about 650,000, is categorized as a large city. Or perhaps I'm being too literal minded?

[@jalabi99]

Well, I've lived in New York, Chicago, Mumbai, Tokyo and Lagos, all of which dwarf Montreal in population...so to me Montreal literally is a nice, little city ;)

[@toddboothbee1361]

Good point: to you it is little. I'm from a small place, so Boston seems giant to me. I find New York City incomprehensible, as I do London.

[@tripsmarketinggroup]

Outremont, top 2-3 neighbourhoods in montreal. Went to school there! Great place

[@AlexanderRomanenko]

My constant anxiety of being freelancer is non-technical clients being frustrated with unpredictable nature of technical difficulties. When I had job working under technical management, they understood and budgeted for resolution of technological limitations. And when they made wrong decision about some framework choice (React being too slow for medical imaging purposes) and had to throw away year worth of work (it was one of many parallel projects), no one is blamed, its just part of the process. Now, having transitioned to freelance I face similar issue. ExtJS changed their license and laid off their employees making further investment into their stack economically infeasible for me. That means I have to rush learn something new, take extra time porting work done so far, reinvent wheals, and dealing with uncertainty of alternatives causing productivity drop some moths later again. As someone focused mainly on backend, making front-end choices is very stressful. But how to do this without testing client's patience??

[@foodieontour]

Basic but worth to be mentioned to new people coming into it.

[@ResoCoder]

Thank you, Stefan!

[@BriskLikeTea]

Currently messing around with swift 4

[@StefanMischook]

Yea .... check out what IBM is doing with Swift on the server. It runs nearly as fast as C++ without the headaches!

[@ginalolli3477]

As a freelance developer, how would one do the design work? Would one work with a designer? Im a developer but my design skills are not as good.

[@TheDrunkMunk]

I'm currently at university but owning my own business/freelancing is my dream. Do you think it's possible to pursue this when i graduate or should I get a job first? Failure us fine with me as long as I try as hard as I can, I'm mostly concerned with if it's anywhere near possible.

[@jalabi99]

@GabeN I don't see why you couldn't do this right now! You can definitely start doing freelance development work while at university. It would even help you out if you decide to pursue a job after getting your degree, since it would add to your years of experience! Doing it now while you're still in university also could act as a buffer: there's more room for "failing" since you have the safety of having most of your current expenses (room & board, food, etc.) paid for by your parents via your college tuition and/or paid for via student loans. So, if I were you, I'd GO FOR IT, NOW!!!

[@aidenwalker1152]

Looks like Dr.Octavius voice is like Al Pacino and thanks for the video!

[@COMB0RICO]

Could you do a talk on individuals wanting to work from home. I have been sick for five years and living with my parents, but trying to learn programming to get my life back. Could you include information like which kind of fields (website design, database, Android apps, Ubuntu contributor?, Etc) are most likely, which coding language(s) would be best (I'm thinking Java or PHP with JavaScript or HTML?), if it is even realistic to establish yourself by just an online presence, et cetera. Thanks from Texas!

[@COMB0RICO]

And also methods of establishing yourself: Github, freecodecamp, and other places to volunteer to contribute free labor, self-initiated projects that would get noticed (like free mobile apps and such).

[@COMB0RICO]

Raymeester, thanks for your help! I wasn't aware of clever programmer, thanks! Yes, I'm going through his previous videos. I'm just suggesting things that apply to me, like throwing pasta against the wall, and seeing if it inspires him to talk more detail on that subject. With that in mind, I unload some more details. I don't like designing websites. I'm a minimalist by nature. The background of my computer phone is black, and I disabled most of the animations. I always seem to be annoyed with the fancy websites. I don't enjoy the performance of selling myself. And I'm not excited by the idea of continually looking for work . I do better as a worker that is consistent and thorough.The ideal job that I can imagine is receiving my weekly workload, and then uploading the finished work at the end of the week. Essentially working for someone else who doles out my work.

[@fansofpenguin9275]

@@COMB0RICO there are software companies now offer remote work, that you can choose: full time employment (monthly salary) or doing the work by hours (hourly rate = freelancing employment).

[@MrJohn360]

Thanks for sharing. Great value

[@Ilovenoobs]

Hi stef. I started watching ur channel a while ago. And I have a few question that hopefully u may answer me from ur point of view. But first for better understanding of the matter. If anyone else can lend me some help on this matter i will be really thankfull. I am ending my technical high school in may and I think I am far from knowing anything of the programing world. I started coding in winter 2015, but my first codes were merely a bunch of copies from other codes. Done by copy, try, repair method. Without paying attention to performance or anything. Codes which were really mostly mine came up in summer 2016 or even later. In meantime i was managing a mid-size game-site for cs:go. There i learn all sort of things, really. DNS, SQL, afore mentioned Pawn, Making 3d maps in source development kits and more. But i still feel like i know nothing. Compared to my classmates i am ahead of them in programming aspects, but i still feel uneducated. In Poland technical High schools all languages u learn is SQL, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, but in really basic form. For example most of my class mates realized about browser consoles in this year. And making a simple gallery in java, or calculator are homework for one week, while i did it on lesson in 20 minutes. And here we have a local market, which have like 200 offerts in my 50km range for programist. What do they require? - An english language on minimum B2 level -Java / C# ASP.NET + MSSQL / PHP + LARAVAL -And in most cases an experience with teamworking, git and maybe 2 years work in specified language + demo of ur project based on this language. And i don't have even a tiny bit experience or any project to present in those languages, maybe in PHP, but no experience with laraval. So here are my questions: - Should I try to get an internship in a company before actually starting a job? - Should I even mention working on my game site and what i learn there, or will they treat me like a child? (it happened before) - Should I present my programing work in game specific pawn language while searching for job? - If so it is worth taking my time to organise mess in my codes and document them(Which i already started and did for some of them), so i can handle them a good portfolio? - Is basic knowledge of Sony Vegas based on making gameplay movies/guides and so on an asset worth mentioning? - Should i try learning python, mainly basics and usage, even if there isn't much job for it ( 5-10% of offers, and mainly for pros), or will it only get in my way? Anyway i think I've exhausted the topic and I won't be taking more of ur time, cause I know how valuable time is. I will be waiting for ur reply.

[@StefanMischook]

Oops ... missed your question. If you see this, let me know what you ended up doing.

[@erik9817]

What about using agile development practices to better manage change during the project?

[@marthanyc]

Does your Python course allow you, or rather....show you, how to build a portfolio of apps to showcase? Does StudioWeb offer a certificate of completion to add to GitHub?

[@StefanMischook]

My Python does you one better: it gives you the deep understanding in Python that will allow to build many different things. Meanwhile, you learn the core of the language building mini programs. Once you have that, the rest is easy. I also have two modules on the career aspects of Python: www.killervideostore.com/video-courses/beginners_python_3.php Certification is possible. The StudioWeb system is used by schools in the US and Canada to provide certification. I haven't created the Python one yet, but if you do my Python StudioWeb course, you will be open to do it when I release it in the next few months. When you subscribe to my Python course, just email me for access to the StudioWeb version. I will provide it for no extra cost. Stef

[@DigitalFactoryFX]

Currently studying Software Engineering, this is good stuff man, keep it up, very useful! What camera and lens are you using by the way, awesome quality!

[@StefanMischook]

Canon all around. C200 and 80D

[@mareksniknais5415]

"Freelancer Developer" - is it correct sentence? I suggest "Freelance Developer" sounds better.

[@anthonywright5275]

Get a life 😂

[@3DJapan]

Manage clients? 15 years of freelancing and it's all to hard to find any clients.

[@abderrahmandouara9973]

Very useful , thanks!

[@StefanMischook]

Welcome.

[@RobertJKimVlogs]

what are the best freelance websites to get started on? And, how to compete with everyone else?

[@darcksage1]

If you had to leave Quebec for another country where would you want to live, just curious.

[@StefanMischook]

Probable the US

[@darcksage1]

Stefan Mischook Thank you for replying.

[@PlayRiteProductions]

Camera Quality is Superb 👌

[@StefanMischook]

Thanks!

[@nicolasnicolas5238]

Didn't know Vitali Klitschko was a programmer!

[@StefanMischook]

LOL!

[@ruffneck718]

Great Vlog

[@yosanmelese2094]

17:45 did he say shooter?if yes, did he mean shooter like a shooter game?

[@MrTochiunamka]

The problem is that companies value work experience in companies than freelance experience

[@TongoZero]

god bless you

[@samuelchampagne7593]

What is the developer job market like in montreal? I'm looking to moving to montreal within a few (1-3) years.

[@StefanMischook]

Very strong. Ai is huge here it seems.

[@samuelchampagne7593]

Thanks!

[@toddboothbee1361]

Probably freelancing in AI would be difficult, I imagine. For one thing, don't you need a mathematics degree and strong understanding of AI theory?

[@dscheme4427]

I was wondering where you lived. Go bruins.

[@vladimirkuryanov5242]

Yeah. The client might not see all the little details of the finish of the project. Nobody likes conflicts.

[@neilpavao7348]

omg i was having anxiety when you were out on your balcony

[@eliasa4356]

Here in My Backyard (Tai Lopez Joke)

[@martyfunkhauser4663]

Any advice on getting some freelance PHP gigs as a college student?

[@martyfunkhauser4663]

Besides putting together a portfolio of course.

[@makariyu69]

This is why I like you stef. No homo.

[@nmatthew7469]

Say hello to Saint Andre for me.

[@Wickked2844]

can't hear you.

[@StefanMischook]

Hmm ... turn up the volume.

[@SpaceMarine113]

Look at this dude's face, it's wasted talent, he would've made a nice actor

[@StefanMischook]

That's it, I'm moving to LA!! ;)

[@learnityourself]

Can play Mads Mikelsen's brother imagine that Hanibal series with Stefan.

[@nyrick999]

Stef why do you show people where you live? It's not safe man.

[@StefanMischook]

Not safe for them. ;) Nah ... I am out of here soon.

[@nyrick999]

@@StefanMischook By the way, I assume you rent, since it must fit your freelance lifestyle. Not true?

[@StefanMischook]

@@nyrick999 I own places for investment and currently rent in Montreal. But I am buying soon for quality of life issues.

[@aaronruiz816]

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