Calling yourself a freelancer makes you a commodity.
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If you’re like me you’ve probably spent the majority of your professional career bouncing around various jobs where people slap a blanket label of “developer” or “software engineer” on you and leave you in a corner to do something nobody understands. Then, these TV Series were created.Silicon Valley is about five programmers working on a multi-million-dollar company out of a suburban house and Mr. Robot where the entire global financial system is brought down by hackers. Ironically they are the most accurate representation of programmers in the media to date.My point is that the problem with calling yourself something like a “freelance web developer” or even worse “software engineer” on your various profiles is: you are assuming a lot of knowledge on the part of the person hiring you. If you are (...)
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