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you might consider keeping your FT job, and as a side-hustle, subcontracting those "thousands of contract work offers" with third-world professionals acting as an agency.


> subcontracting those "thousands of contract work offers" with third-world professionals acting as an agency

Aka the easiest way to ruin your brand and deliver shit work. If the clients wanted work done by "third-world professionals" they would hire them directly; the reason they're contacting you instead is because you have some credentials, references, etc that the third-world guys don't have; now do you wanna bet all of that on unvetted third-world freelancers?


Oh thanks for adding that, totally agreed.

I initially misunderstood the suggestion as taking those contract as side gigs.


It sounds rational and lucrative, but I work for myself outside of my FT job. I've got a few projects I'm trying to launch.

* http://niche.fm (on hold after an ugly launch https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/ask-ih-no-traction-post-l...)

* http://yoga.now.sh (WIP, about to launch this guy. The actual domain is http://specs.yoga, but I've got staging and prod reversed)




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