How to organize a part-time job on a foreign freelance?

Question

Java

Greetings!

The situation is as follows: I have been working in IT for about ten years, all this time in the office. For the last six years it has been java and enterprise. Both the work and the current workplace suit me, I don’t want to quit / change (and I can’t find a salary that is especially higher in our city, and the difference of 10 thousand, even if it happens, won’t change the picture much), I also don’t have the opportunity to move anywhere ( and wishes). Although the salary is quite good for our city, it is enough to live on, but I would very much like to find an additional source of income, since money is always needed.

There is an idea to try to earn extra money on freelance, allocating two to three hours a day (more on weekends). Moreover, I would like to work with foreign clients, and not with Russian ones, because, as far as I know, they are ready to pay much more there, and income in dollars / euros is much better nowadays.

This raises several related questions. Everything that I found on the Internet was considered from the standpoint of a full-fledged departure to freelance and turning it into the main source of income. Here, after all, the situation is different, so I would really like to know the answers / advice from people who actually implemented this. I look at Upwork, but it is not necessary to dwell on it specifically.

Organizational and legal issues:
1) Legality. How, where and what should I apply for such additional income to be legal? What taxes and deductions will I have to pay? I remind you that I officially work, I receive a white salary and the employer conscientiously deducts everything that is necessary.
2) Is it required to open an IP or something similar?
3) How will payment be made? No matter how much I read, I did not fully understand. Do I need to open a special bank account?

Technical questions:
4) What is the best area to go to? Something tells me that the enterprise and freelancing are not compatible, there will be nothing from this area. Given this, and also the fact that my main tool for many years has been java, I see two development options (without switching to another language): backend for sites / services (servlets, spring, etc.) or Android application development. I tend to the second, I think that it is more promising and in demand now. To what extent is this so?

PS I apologize for such a large text. Thank you all in advance!

Answer 1

How I myself switched from a full-time job to Upwork:
at first I took small orders and did them in my free time. There were more and more orders. At some point, part-time work in the evenings began to bring as much money as the main full-time job. At that moment, I decided that it was time to completely go freelancing.
Resigned. I started freelancing full time. At first, it was difficult to score all the free time, but even with 50% employment, the money came out better, besides, complete freedom, constantly new tasks.
Now for your questions.
1) At first, it is not necessary to bother with legality. Until you reach a stable income of at least 100k / month, there is nothing special to take a steam bath for. You can withdraw money to PayPal or Payoneer or other semi-legal methods. At first, it is better to focus on work.
2) When a stable tangible income appears, then you need to register an individual entrepreneur, open a current account. As taxation, either a patent or a simplified 6%. Nothing particularly complicated, there is a lot of information on the internet and on the toaster.
3) Regular current account for individual entrepreneurs. On a simplified system, you pay 6% of all income that goes to the account, you need to pay on certain dates so that taxes are mutually deducted from the mandatory contributions of individual entrepreneurs.
On a patent, you pay the annual cost of the patent and mandatory annual fees and nothing more. Then you just drive KUDiR.
You need to choose how to keep accounts: electronic systems (Elba, My Business); accountant service from a bank or a third-party service; hired accountant; or stupidly in Excel. I use the first way.
4) In classic freelancing (when you place order after order), there is really rarely an enterprise. There are usually small final projects. But when you work freelance for a long time, you start to get bored with the constant search for clients and strive for one big project. In fact, freelancing at some point develops into remote work. And then there may well be an enterprise. Technology is up to you. We need to see what projects there are, what is in demand. Maybe something to learn.

Answer 2

Hello!
I'm freelancing...

1) Legality. How, where and what should I apply for such additional income to be legal? What taxes and deductions will I have to pay? I remind you that I officially work, I receive a white salary and the employer conscientiously deducts everything that is necessary.

Everything is absolutely legal. Taxes are paid by the employer (in this case, the employer is a freelance company). You pay nothing.

2) Is it required to open an IP or something similar?

Not required if you work through an intermediary firm (freelance exchange)

3) How will payment be made? No matter how much I read, I did not fully understand. Do I need to open a special bank account?

Payment is made via PayPal predominantly. The freelance exchange may also offer its own withdrawal options

4) What is the best area to go to? Something tells me that the enterprise and freelancing are not compatible, there will be nothing from this area. Given this, and also the fact that my main tool for many years has been java, I see two development options (without switching to another language): backend for sites / services (servlets, spring, etc.) or Android application development

It all depends on demand. I also write in Java, although I am a beginner developer. Orders: development of parsers on jsoup, development of android applications, development of games on java, development of backends and various RESTful services, etc., development of desktop applications on javaFx, etc. In general, who has enough imagination for what)
From foreign -
https://www.fiverr.com/
https://www.upwork.com/
From domestic -
https://kwork.ru/
https://freelance. habr.com/
etc.

Answer 3

There is an idea to try to earn extra money on freelance, allocating two to three hours a day (more on weekends).

Try it. Then you will understand what exactly needs to be done and how. Everyone has their own situation / desires / skills / etc.
Perhaps everything will not turn out the way you think, and it turns out that you thought so much in vain :)
If you find your niche and clients and you are really cool, then it is unlikely that it will all result in a remote project with a good salary past the exchange.
Every time I came to the upwork "for small orders in my free time" exactly this happened, up to the change of job, but they say the upwork is not the same lately, I don't know, I haven't been there for a long time.
As for the design - think about it when you understand that you can earn. Technically, nothing complicated - draw up an individual entrepreneur, open a legal entity account with a bank, call the currency control and they tell you how to properly process receipts, what documents are needed (different banks want different things, which is strange, but the reality is always the same). Most likely it will be a contract + invoices. Or only an agreement, if the procedure for settlements is prescribed there in a form that suits your bank.
I don’t know for sure whether it is possible to work both as an individual entrepreneur and as an employee in a company, my IMHO - there should be no problems at all.

Answer 4

Quit your job and work as a freelancer, you will not raise thousands a month like now, but 300k

Answer 5

You can find a remote job here, and go to work there, the main thing is fast Internet.