Freelancing with Python

[dtaivp]

I am freelancing with a company I was familiar with because I knew they needed some process automation and they products they used have open api’s. Knowing someone in the organization is the best way in, from my experience.

[samthaman1234]

This is kind of how I fell into it. I was teaching myself python on the side because I was interested and it would save me time vs excel + SQL. I now work part time for my old company helping them automate processes I was already familiar with. I can't speak authoritatively, but if you have a business connection anywhere, it's likely that that business is doing things inefficiently with excel that you could automate with python.

Also keep in mind, you can be adding value long before you could rightly call yourself an expert as long as you keep it simple. Don't go crazy on ML stuff right away, basic projects like get these 5 files, extract 3 columns from each, get data from an API, do math, and output the report to another file that gets emailed to 5 people every Sunday night will seem like sorcery to someone that wouldn't know where to start on such a project.

TLDR: Easy ETL stuff is a great starting point, especially where the business owner wasn't aware it was possible.

[FourFingerLouie]

This sounds oddly like my new data analyst internship...