/wdg/ - Web Development General

How many of you web devs are new, with no degree, and how much do you make? Do you work long term for one company or do shorter contracts? is there any possibility of working from home as a web developer after i learn what i need?

It was a 10 minute call this time and I just billed him an hour.

I'll start doing that though. That's a good pro-tip, thanks.

>program better than their senior lead.
bold claim

>Never talk to your clients through calls, e-mails only.
why?
so you can have a history of talks between you and the client?

This. I find this to be especially important because I work remotely, so I need to be able to cover my ass with proof that I have communicated with the boss about deployments and shit.

I'm "new" at just under 2 years with no degree. The companies that require a degree you probably don't want to work for anyways. Micro-management hell. Most new devs straight out of school have no idea how to dev and I end up teaching them their first 6 months so I don't know why people pick those with a degree over hobbyist experience. How much I make isn't relevant because I do different things outside of work. I've turned down an 85k position as a lead after 1 year in this career and I turned down a 133k offer last month as a senior-dev. My job pays 55k but it's not demanding at all and I make up the difference with my passive generators.

There is the ability to work at home as a web developer some of the time. Depends on the company. I am talking to a startup for 112k that is full remote. I'd actually do that one because I want to rent out my house and move by a city. I don't think the guy liked me so I might just copy his website of I don't get it.

You probably won't get a work from home gig right off the bat. You'll need experience or serious people skills and a dictionary of tech jargon knowledge to make you sound smart. You could just do what I do and pretend you're Mark Zuckerberg.

Dude's a fucking enterprise jockey, only does the same shit over and over and so time has given him the ability to judge the lesser beings who have to struggle with a shifting market.

That's useful, of course, but from a workflow point of view it allows you to give your day a time and a place to separate clients and work from one another, instead of constantly having to deal with some annoying faggot ringing you all the time.

if you're a competent programmer, over the years you start programming less and less and go into management positions. That's probably his case.
Also, you're assuming too much about a person. Don't think you are a special kid of any kind

Alright, I'll eat the humble pie. Let's just say I'm frustrated a person as lethargic and comfortably accommodated can label me as useless just because I haven't used his gay ass workflow methodology.