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Work environments continuously change, and this change benefits talented developers.
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On top of your hourly rate, you have to calculate the cost of marketing yourself and keeping in touch with your clients. You also have to factor in some preparation for a highly paid gig such as teaching a webinar for $250. Even though you are paid to host a webinar, you have to create the slides for it, which might take you another 1 to 2 hours, reducing your hourly rate. However, once you create your slides, you can reuse your content for other webinars, eventually making the $250 hourly rate manifest in reality.
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I did two of these projects in 2018 while I was working full-time. I agreed with my client on a relaxed timeline and worked on these projects 10 hours a week.
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Actually, I am not that proud of this accomplishment, because I could have doubled down on personal brand building in 2016–2017 at the expense of gaining career capital as a professional. However, I chose not to go down that path, because I have seen where personal brand building leads to in the case of people who leveraged the opportunity of building an online presence to escape from work. I believe in “moving toward” motivation, and escaping from work does not motivate me. Maximizing career capital does.
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Back then, republic was included in the name of the country.
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Exceptions apply. For instance, in business, a PhD may slightly hinder your connections with self-made business partners having no formal education.
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Exceptions apply. One of my peers from university committed to an IBM lab and earned a starting salary of around $50,000 after graduation in Hungary, where others were happy to earn $15,000 a year (2006 data).
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For instance, research the Scrum certification offered by the Scrum Alliance and Scrum.org. One provides you with an easy test for obligatory expenses of more than $1,000 and a regular renewal fee, while the other allows you to complete a hard test in exchange for $150 (2019 data).
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Emphasis is on the word credible, because obviously, scams also surface. Some scammers present themselves as an alternative to traditional education and justify a high price tag. Some of the most damaging and deceptive programs have been shut down by the American government.
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Nagy, Z. (2019). Your Future Is in Your Hands. In: Soft Skills to Advance Your Developer Career. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5092-1_8
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