Life Of A Freelance Web Developer After 2 Years « John Raul dot Com

Life Of A Freelance Web Developer After 2 Years

7 August, 2009 | 4 comments | Published under Blog | 127 views

On August 6, 2009, I marked my official second year (unofficially, it’s more than 2 years LOL) anniversary of my work here at home as a freelance web developer. Well, I’m more than just web developer. Time flies, as they say, and it really just flew in my case. My 48 months were not bad at all and it wasn’t bliss to work at home everyday either. There were lots of interesting and dramatic changes in my personal and professional life as witnessed by this blog.

While my work may have contained my life in the four corners of my home, it also brought some unparalleled events and evolution not just in my life but also to others who were directly attached to me in the offline and online world. I personally believe that I experienced some things that you can’t get in a real office environment. Of course, I also recognize that there are also things I have missed. I guess I can just say “C’est la vie.” I think that if I was working in the city, it would have exposed me to different places and people. Unfortunately, that’s not my circumstance and that being said, I’m relying on my holistic dynamism and upbeat intellect that have brought advancements despite my situational constraints. I believe it will continue to push me forward in the next years to come. After all, I think and dream about my future every day and I parallel that with hard work.

Recollection and Evaluation

When I started my work 2 years ago, I had nothing else in my mind than just four goals that boosted my motivation:

  • to find an opportunity to visit, work, and live abroad,
  • to solidify my career in Information Technology,
  • to make money to help my parents and brothers, and
  • to find new special people that I could integrate and be part of my life.

My first goal didn’t happen yet; I kind of fulfilled the second one but not to a sustainable point due to changing circumstances; the third one is a continuous work and that’s evidenced by what I do online; and the latter, I believe I managed to find special people that are now part of my life.

The past two years working at home have taught me many things and brought realizations that I have presented in the past milestone posts listed below.

Professionally-talking, I think being a freelance developer has a risk especially when you’re not eager enough to teach yourself to be better in your field of expertise. As in my case, I have no choice but to develop my knowledge. It’s the key to realizing my goals and it has always provided me ways through life’s obstacles.

What’s Ahead

As uncertain as the future can be, I can only pledge to be consistent with my hard work to realize the goals I have and to be dynamic with each new circumstance. I’m looking forward to meet my online friends, I’m excited to the development of my tech news show, to start new venture and engage more in online business, to hone my I.T. expertise, and most importantly, to fly somewhere. With all these goals I have, it only means there’s an opportunity to do more in the years to come.

4 Comments »


Toonc
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Great and interesting post .. inspiring story ..

thanks for sharing, it’s a nice blog! keep up the good work man!


Oriflame
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Freelancing can be very frustrating so my congratulations!

I hope you have lot of abiltity to separate your personal life from work ;-)


Maple Grove real estate
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Freelancing has their advantages and disadvantages but you get to learn a lot and some people prefer normal competitive environment in real offices and some would prefer freelancing which gives them greater flexibility to work on hours they want to work on.

Your goals are pretty good and I hope you achieve rest of your goals as well.

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Jerry Clifford

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