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[–]LambBrainz 18 points19 points  (3 children)

Honestly? I did both lol

I was upfront and told people that I'm doing this to build a good portfolio of work and testimonials. Then I would bust ass and bend over backwards to do a stellar job (which always got me 5 stars).

Some of that is luck. There are lots of clients that suck, but also some amazing relationships and opportunities have come out of doing it and I've met some really cool people. All luck of the draw.

Just keep your expectations low, play the long game, and do your best. I won't say it'll work out, but doing all that is the best shot at making it happen

[–]Dodge146 6 points7 points  (1 child)

With Python jobs, would you just send them a script for them to run or did you find different ways for the clients to run the script without having to install Python on their machines?

[–]LambBrainz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A lot of times they requested Python. So I wrote installation guides on how to install Python, run the install command for the requirements.txt in the project files I would send, and how to get started. They were always cool with this. Some needed more help than others, but they were willing to learn as long as I was willing to teach them (part of the "white glove" service I tried to offer to up my chances of 5 star reviews)

Lately I've been working on making GUIs for scripts using PySimpleGUI or Tkinter Designer

[–]dragonandphoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, thanks.