[LRUG] ⚒️ Freelancer (still) available for work!

[Jakub Adler]

Hi Najaf,
Thank you for sharing.
I can see, that I'm not the only one in the same situation. I've
experienced the same. I remember a year ago when being in contract and
other years ago when working, being constantly contacted by recruiters
looking for RoR devs.
Now it's like a flat line. In the past few months, just a few opportunities
came across with rates below the standards. I was contacted mainly for the
perm roles. There are not many contracts right now tho.
I hope you and others find some jobs in the near future, but there might be
a possibility that it will go worse, as we might be on the verge of
a huge recession. Not sure what is your point of view. Personally, in this
"winter" time, I'm focusing on improving my skills and building some side
hustle, and trying to identify opportunities coming out of nowadays
situations.
I'm considering building some services that will generate some side income,
like plugins, or services related to Shopify as it is a hugely used online
sell platform.
Let me know (and maybe others), what you think about that.
I wish you the best of luck. Don't give up.
Take care

Kind regards
Jacob

pá 12. 5. 2023 v 10:25 odesílatel Najaf Ali <ali.najaf at gmail.com> napsal:

> Hi all!
>
> As per the subject line I'm still available for new Ruby/Rails/JS work.
> More details available here: https://github.com/Najaf
>
> A few quick notes:
>
>    - Searching for new work in the current climate has been challenging
>    and so *I am willing to consider significantly lower rates* than usual
>    in order to keep the lights on. Please get in touch directly to discuss
>    details.
>    - Having so much time without work allowed me to catch up with some of
>    you back in London. I've had something like forty zoom calls over the past
>    few months. It was extremely common to hear about layoffs, freelancers like
>    myself with nothing in the pipeline living off savings, and founders trying
>    to stretch out their runways for as long as possible.
>    - There were many theories as to the reasons for this. SVB + other
>    banks collapsing, low interest rates, existential dread over ChatGPT,
>    emperor husk firing half the engineering team on the bird site etc were
>    interesting candidates and fun to discuss.
>
> Anyhow, I hope you're all well and weathering the current tech hiring
> winter better than I am! On the bright side, at least I'm not running a
> business that would be heavily impacted by situation like this, like say,
> an agency 🤣
>
> If you'd like to discuss the potential for working together then please
> email me and we can set up a call in the near future to discuss further.
> Also if you'd like to catch up and talk shop then feel free to book
> something in using this calendly link:
> https://calendly.com/najaf-ali/call-with-ali
>
> All the best,
>
> -Ali
>
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