Where to go after 4 years of freelancing?

Question

Freelance

Hello. Two weeks ago I received a diploma of a specialist psychologist and the question arose about further employment. Naturally, I’m not going to work in my specialty (even if I was going to, there’s not so much work in this area), but while studying at the university, I started working as a freelancer (fortunately, I knew HTML and CSS well from school ). At first I worked as a simple layout designer, later I studied PHP and JS and started working with popular CMS (WP, Bitrix, Prestashop, Opencart), then I went to adaptive layout, Bootstrap, Foundation, LESS, SCSS and most recently paid attention to JS frameworks (AngularJS) . Looking through the vacancies, I came across the fact that the requirements for a layout designer and Front-end developer are almost the same, but their salary is slightly different. Therefore, a reasonable question arose:

Answer 1

requirements for layout designer and front-end developer are almost the same

It's absolutely the same. The layout designer profession has already died, and has given way to a front-end developer.

Answer 2

The requirements for a layout designer and Front-end developer are almost the same, but their salary is slightly different.

where they pay more

Answer 3

If there is experience, then this is not a junior, but quite a senior can be.
But why would you live in a default city? If it is possible to work remotely, then there are better places to live.
As already advised, consider the option of Western freelance exchanges - upwork.

Answer 4

I work remotely for an info-businessman. Salary every month. I don’t consider our capital for life - a terrible city, and my wife didn’t like it even after the first day of my stay. Perfectly enough for all expenses + to "postpone". The work is just front-end, but knowledge of php is still required, and you also often have to communicate with people. Right now, we have become partners and are doing joint training.

Answer 5

Looking through the vacancies, I came across the fact that the requirements for a layout designer and Front-end developer are almost the same, but their salary is slightly different.

Because a coder is the entry level of a front-end developer or designer (depending on the direction in which to develop).
Therefore the question

in layout or in Front-end

doesn't make sense.
First of all, you should think about learning the front-end framework. It, IMHO, the obligatory requirement even for junior.

Answer 6

A layout designer is now such a novice front-end developer, so in fact it is a special case.

Answer 7

I divide this work into front-end and front-end.
Your problem is that for a full-fledged frontend there is not enough base, programming skills, debugging, etc.
Therefore, you will not be hired as a junior, let's say, specialized companies (starting with Yandex), because I need someone who can program.
Yes, there are positions from 100k+, but I would not recommend anyone to take a front-end developer who has mastered Angular without programming skills, as a result, this all results only in overloading the team lead.
PS if you need personal training and vacancies, add me to skype (in contacts)

Answer 8

I think it's worth going around. And choose who you like. Don't guess.