Continuing this articles series, I’m attempting to shed some light on the client’s side of freelancing. I’ve hired a number of web developers, app developers, animators, 3D artists, and 2D…
This is the first, but perhaps not the last, article series on working with new freelancers from the client’s perspective. Over the years, I’ve hired a number of developers and…
CTO-as-a-Service is something rather new and you could easily say it is a niche industry. In this article, I explain my perspective on what it is and how I manage…
No matter how successful a freelancer you are, there are times when things go south; especially when you work online and are limited to mere chat lines as one major…
As of this writing, I’m one month shy of my fifth anniversary of freelancing. I jumped off the hamster wheel in May 2014, and I jumped off for good. Some…
I’m a man of many hats. (Saying that always makes me think of a doctoral hat, which is part of the academic tradition in Finland — which I never got…
Despite the slight (or rather complete!) change in the title, this article is the last part of my series The Strangest Invitations I Ever Got via Online Freelancing Sites, Part…
This is Part 2 of my attempt at revealing the funny and tragicomic side of online freelancing. Please take a look at the previous post about the categories of the…
I’ve worked for years on those online freelance sites. When I started, I was quite impressed with how professional some clients are and how quickly you can land a project…