Welcome to the second issue of Adem's Freelance Journey.
I know it's the middle of the month and most of you expected a new issue on the first of December.
There's a very simple explanation for this.
I'm lazy and got hooked on PUBG.
Now that my poor excuses are out of the way, here's the November breakdown of my freelance business.
TL;DR made $2695 for ~ 74 hours of work on three different projects. Have two other projects in the pipeline.
Projects
Client #1 ($1575 for 45 hours of work)
Very busy month for Client #1.
We landed a very big customer couple of months ago and needed to finish up some custom work by the end of November.
If you've spent more than a day in the software development you'll know this means we were at least a month short of time.
We're currently rolling it out to their test group and it's going very smoothly if I may say so.
In other news, Client #1 raised money from VCs.
So starting January or February I'll start charging them my regular rate of $50 an hour.
Client #2 ($420 for 12 hours of work)
Not a lot of work from Client #2.
To be fair, he's developing all the critical pieces of the product.
I'm hired just to help him out on some less sexy tasks.
Client #3 ($700 for ~16 hours of work)
I've wrapped up a project that I've been working on with Client #3.
He's delighted with my work and wants to keep working with me, so he re-hired me to keep maintaining his app for $50 an hour.
Future leads
With Client #3 rehiring me and Client #1 raising funds, I don't think I need to look for more clients.
I'll be taking some client calls just in case something cool pops up.
I've already talked with a couple of IndieHackers and I think there's a high possibility I'll end up working with some on their projects.
Conclusion
All in all, November was a pretty good month. Not my best but not terrible either.
The only thing that was bad is dealing with PayPal. I do 100% of my invoicing through PayPal.
It refused to send funds to my bank quoting that there's an issue with my bank. I called up my bank and they said it was an issue on the PayPal side.
Luckily, after two weeks, I've managed to get the money into my bank account.
It turns out I can only withdraw $1200 at a time (which is annoying because I need to pay $5 every time).
But the important thing is that it works I guess.
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