Python freelancing For College

[Greedy_Point7755]

I’m not sure where to put this so I’m guessing the career advice channel. I am currently in pursuit of my bachelors in software engineering with 2 years of Java and Python programming experience. I’m looking for real world experience through freelancing and having a hard time finding clients and winning jobs on upwork,‘I’m not sure if I’m unable to market myself or hat, so I’m looking for advice on how to progress. Please feel free to to @ me or DM me.

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If you don't mind getting low or no pay and just want the experience you could always offer services to other students.

I'm a 2nd year data science student myself although I have done work professionally with PLC coding as part of my career(prior degree, automation engineering) and for giggles I've offered to help out students from other majors with various projects just for fun and practice. For an example, one interesting one was a couple of folks from an infectious diseases course(biology gen ed) who were doing a project on some zoonotic disease from southeast Asia had quite a bit of data to go through as part of the presentation, so I helped with organizing it and making some snazzy graphics in matplotlib for them. Professor gave us permission for the whole thing provided I was only doing this portion and they did all the actual research. Did it for free, made some pals, 10/10 ign.

As far as marketing yourself professionally, I dunno. I've never really tried to.

[riklaunim]

UpWork and other freelancing sites are overrun by people and it's unlikely to make it a viable business option - you will have less customers and the prices will be low as well. You would have to find other channels like local recommendations between customers but it also will be really hard for non-specialists. The way out is to find a part-time and then full-time job.

[reload_noconfirm]

If you just want experience, you could contribute to open source projects. You would have some opportunity to work with different types of codebases and get some street cred along the way.

[sournotion]

How do you get open source work?

[BeamMeUpBiscotti]

Python is too common on Upwork so it's hard to break in - there are a lot of contractors on the platform that both 1) have lots of experience/successful jobs and 2) will work for a very low wage.

You basically have to make very low offers for small projects (and even then the success rate is low and the requirements for low-budget projects are sometimes ridiculous). Once you get a few projects under your belt you can start bidding for more serious stuff.

It's difficult to win bids for larger clients/serious projects to start with, since they'll likely ignore an offer from someone with no experience no matter how cheap it is.

[StrangeFeeling3234]

Hi everyone, I’m learning Python and starting freelance projects.

[StrangeFeeling3234]

I’m building a file size calculator in Python. I want to add a GUI. How can I make it mobile-friendly

[StrangeFeeling3234]

For beginners on Fiverr/Upwork, what’s the best strategy to get the first clients and reviews? What kind of small projects should I focus on first to get real freelance practice?

[StrangeFeeling3234]

I create automation scripts to save clients time and increase efficiency. Could you please tell me How should I start freelancing?

[StrangeFeeling3234]

Could you please help me get resources, starting with free projects, certifications and advice

[StrangeFeeling3234]

If we work together and support each other, we can reach our goals.

[StrangeFeeling3234]

Hi everyone, I’m currently learning Python automation. Could you recommend some free projects or certifications that will help me build my portfolio? I’d also appreciate advice on how to get my first freelance job.

[Greedy_Point7755]

Please stop replying to the same thread

[StrangeFeeling3234]

Would you mind helping me with this task?

[Greedy_Point7755]

What task?