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Exactly ... and it's based on International costumers that pay in dollars ...dollar falls i have to increase price do to fact i am based in Europe ...
Have you been trying to acquire projects in Europe? Unfortunately the market has been mostly locked down by head hunters but expertise is still very much sought after.
I had clients in Europe but the big companies hire recruiting agencies ,you just give them your cv and all you can do is wait ...
Another problem is that they want you to move there ...i have family to take care of where i live ...i just can't move to another country just so you can watch me "code" ...the only way i can do it is remote ...
I gave my cv to a "uk company" few days ago we agreed to work remote and to do a test project ...they wanted someone to code html/css ...so i said to them ... i will send you video of my work for each project, if you like what you see in video you make payment and i send you the html/css files after ....they said "no" ,they wanted me to send the html/css code and after they make payment if they like it ... Basically
screw you we going to pay if we want to. but we going to do what ever we want with your code ...
In coding biz it does not matter where you live or how many hours you work on project ...only thing important is you deliver your work before deadline and client must like your work ... that's it. And if you do programming it must also be secured and no bugs .