Freelancing

Going independent after tech is sold as freedom and experienced, at least at first, as uncertainty. The technical skills transfer more easily than most people expect. The pricing, the client-finding and the variable income do not.

These articles cover the parts the lifestyle brands leave out: where a first client actually comes from when you've only ever been employed, how to set a rate you can defend and hold when someone pushes back, and what the first six months genuinely look like on the way out of burnout.