work

• The key to productivity is to make your hours count.
• Don't FB at work, answer personal email, gossip or other stuff.
• Have a life besides work.
• Don't work after 6pm.
• You're more attentive in the morning, tackle hard stuff then.

Time management

• Reserve easier chores for the end of the day.
• If you can't do it in 8 hours, you can't do it in 10.
• Break your week open in segments, plan on a macro scale.
• Plan your day in segments, what are you going complete today?

• Have fixed moments for email / code review / other stuff. This gives you headspace.

• Why Germans work fewer hours but produce more

Taxes as a freelancer

When supplying services as a freelancer in a non-EU country as a dutchie, you don't charge Dutch taxes, charge the taxes of that country + stick to the laws of the country.

• kamer van koophandel (NL)
• electronishe diensen in non-eu landen (dutch)
• tax type calculator

Rates

Charge per week, as you become focused on features not hours. Also less overhead in terms of time management.

• hour to week

Post client relations

• Follow a successful consulting engagement with a case study.
• if no case study, ask for a testimonial
• you do the work, both of you get the profits
• testimonials should be specific, focused on a business result and highly credible
• if no case study or testimonial, ask for private reference

Giving interviews

• do a screening based on portfolio / meta analysis
• identify top candidates
• use an unstructured interview to get them excited about the job
• get them excited about the company

Job sites

source

freelance

• remote

  • hhttp://hnhiring.me/
  • https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/
  • http://www.lancelist.com/
  • https://gun.io/dash/
  • http://www.10xmanagement.com/
  • https://theworkmob.com/
  • http://workingnotworking.com
  • https://authenticjobs.com
  • https://www.upwork.com
  • http://www.happyfuncorp.com

• on-site

  • http://getlambda.com/

full-time

• remote

  • https://weworkremotely.com/
  • https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote
  • https://www.wfh.io/categories/1/jobs
  • https://remotecoder.io/
  • http://www.workingnomads.co/jobs

• on-site

  • https://angel.co/jobs
  • https://hired.com/
  • https://jobs.github.com/positions
  • https://www.themuse.com/
  • http://startupjob.me/
  • http://www.insidestartups.org/
  • http://www.lookahead.com.au (australia)

Going freelance

• switching to contracting UK

Motivation

• Autonomy
• Mastery
• Purpose

Taking interviews

Whenever you apply for a new job there's a bunch of questions you need to ask.

• what are the positions you have available
• what kind of employee are you looking for?
• tell them what you are looking for
• tell them when you're around / available to further chat

Contracts

Signing contracts is important for yourself, and for your customers. Don't hesitate to sign one at the start of a relationship. If you trust each other, there shouldn't be a problem in persisting that trust.

A contract should contain the following:

• A simple overview of who is hiring who, what they’re being hired to do, when and for how much
• What both parties agree to do and what their respective responsibilities are
• The specifics of the deal and what is or isn’t included in the scope
• What happens when people change their minds (as they almost always do)
• A simple overview of liabilities and other legal matters

• You might even include a few jokes

• contract killer

• contract killer 3 gist

Starting a new job contracting job

• start working after the contract is signed
• take 24 hours to read through the contract and agree on terms
• some stuff might be non-negotiable, if you start working before it's signed there are no guarantees of pay
• terms might be unable to be agreed upon, and will then end up performing free work

See Also

• growing consulting practices
• remoteok contracting

Vacation

Minimum of 5 weeks is healthy, unlimited vacation is bad. More should easily be possible hey.

• minimum vacation policy