What is the state of modern freelancing at the end of 2020?

Question

Freelance

Hello.
I appeal to developers who make money on freelancing, I wanted to know the Junior Front-end earnings fork, how difficult it is to break through due to competition, whether it has become worse compared to 2018, what are the main burdens and problems of modern freelancing. What are the opportunities and prospects for this way of earning.

For lack of acquaintances, I turn to you specifically, since everyone who is in my field of environment said that the freelance market is dead, since every student is ready to do tons of projects for a penny, thereby pampering customers that there are “scammers” everywhere and there is no reliability.

Or, to start a career, is it better to find a stable office, try to work remotely and find an open source?

At the moment I'm finishing learning the basics of web development and have HTML5 + Pug, CSS3 + SCSS / SASS, JavaScript + Vue (at the level of primitive basics) in my backpack and a little experience with TS, including git, npm, gulp, webpack.
ps I'm not looking for pills, I'm not counting on easy money, I'm ready to work hard, but I want to understand if there is an opportunity to earn money there now.

Answer 1

Still the same
Shitcoders in the ass, pros in chocolate

Answer 2

to start a career, it is better to find a stable office, try to work out remotely

Answer 3

Hello, is this your programming course?
What courses, this is a library, and what courses do you need?
I agree. Freelancing is like a queue for vodka in the 90s, a wedge. Who squeezed through, he took. But not more than a bubble. There are also Indians who, even with average levels, can cut 2-3 dollars per hour. Freelancing is a very tough market.
But, nevertheless, if you lie with your eyes open, you will not fall asleep. You can start gaining experience, take on projects of any kind at a minimum, all for the sake of experience, client base, rating and portfolio. You look when you improve your knowledge and your profile will be ready for competition.

Answer 4

As always, the answers on the toaster are full of nonsense.

who make money freelancing

developers make money at work. in formal employment. To do this, they open hh and look for work.

everyone who is in my field of environment said that the freelance market is dead,

the stillborn cannot die.
To understand what freelancing is, you need to understand how it differs from work.
Freelancing is when Petya writes a shit code to Vasya for food without obligations.
Freelancing is not earnings, because any company works with a contractor - a legal entity, whether it is an individual entrepreneur or LLC.
If a company constantly needs IT services, then the company hires IT on a permanent basis.
So, freelancing is an eternal attempt to earn a penny on a low-profile job, a la taxi.
Only a hundred times worse.
There are no professionals in freelancing. Professionals that are above the junior level go to the office/remote work and work quietly for a fixed price. in a specific position, without brain-fuck. On freelance, you will plow for three - play the role of a manager, analyst and developer. Least.
In fact, a freelancer is an idiot who does not know how to do anything, who is not taken on a staff due to his incompetence. For any pro could get a job or move to a country where IT specialists are offered good money. I highly doubt that a freelancer working 8 hours a week can raise at least a small part of the income that is offered to experienced programmers in the office.

Or, to start a career, is it better to find a stable office, try to work remotely and find an open source?

Mixed everything together. And what about open source?
Your goal is to go to the office. Work there and understand that everything you described here is nothing more than teenage snot that has NOTHING to do with reality.
There is no and never was any freelancing. Money is earned only on "official" work, working for a specific enterprise, and not remote hell-knows-who. No serious enterprise will ever work with a freelancer, unless they are ignorant or inexperienced with the process. Who bears the risks? Are there contracts? How should the company make deductions and how should this be indicated in tax documents? And a lot more questions.

Answer 5

If you have intermediate English and self-presentation/sales skills, then you can take projects on Upwork for $10/hr-$20/hr. It’s not a fact that you’ll find it right away, but you can then provide yourself with work for a long time.
And, yes, if you want to work successfully and earn money, ignore the part of the messages where they say that you will not succeed. Everything will work out, you just need to work hard and look at the world from a different angle.
Happy New Year!

Answer 6

they said the freelancing market is dead

I do not work as a freelancer yet, but I will express my subjective opinion. The competition in freelancing is now very big, I would even say huge. Perhaps in the near future there will be even more competition. According to some marketing surveys, the most popular profession among applicants is it.
It is also necessary to take into account what kind of freelance, foreign exchanges or CIS? If foreign, then there is less competition, the level of payment is higher.

Or, to start a career, it’s better to find a stable office, try to work out remotely

It's actually pretty funny actually. Sometimes laughable. I analyzed freelancing recently and realized that many companies in the CIS themselves sit on freelance exchanges and take orders from there. Some on upwork, some on fl.ru. That is, you go to the office and the office itself is a gasket between you and the freelance exchange.

every student is ready to do tons of projects for a penny, thereby pampering customers that there are “scammers” everywhere and there is no reliability.

Yes, schoolchildren can pull the layout and many projects in php, js. There is no reliability anywhere.
Still, I think freelancing, with all its shortcomings, is more relevant than an office.

Answer 7

Work as usual. The competition is low. Don't listen to what's being said here. Yes, there are 100 applications for each project. Read these applications. These are 95% zero profiles with the text: "I'll do it, hurry up" (with an error). Freelancing's big problem is customers. There are a lot of homeless people who hope that a freelancer will work for 5 thousand 2 months, and if you add another 500 rubles, then Facebook will also create and promote it to the TOP. This is the main problem. There are few adequate customers there, so at the beginning it is worth taking everything in a row more or less, and then you will already run into those who will recommend to friends. Actually your goal is word of mouth. It is on him that everything rests. Here the money is good and the customers are adequate. But without wallowing in shit there is no way)

Answer 8

The answer is simple
1. In the ru segment, goons and scholars with "sites for a thousand." The second ones bribe the first ones, and you suck biba. The real project will have to look. It is better to jump to pick up to the studio.
2. On an international scale - Ukrainians and Indians do for a penny what we would not even touch for a round sum. However, it is still cheaper than the studios.
So the bottom line is this: If you are not finished, you can earn. BUT, you have to sweat the first time. Go directly to foreign exchanges

Answer 9

If, as you say, you are mediocre, then what kind of freelance are you talking about, or go to the office and gain experience. I don’t understand what the joke of freelancing is, of all the developers I know of freelancing, not one works

Answer 10

I read somewhere that there are more freelancers and their incomes have increased, so it’s a very promising area