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Mikki25:
Please for the gurus in the house,can someone review my profile,I have been on upwork for years now and have not gotten any gig, I'm open to any critics and corrections.This is my profile https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01377be3698c2abb22

Your profile is not bad, since WordPress is your forte, move it to the top ( check the image below). Also, I posted some tips on the first page on how you can land your first gig

DrLevi:
Okay, thanks

Is it okay to get a client to open a gig on upwork for a hob that is already done but payment hasn't been made.
Hope it isn't against any upwork rules?

Organic gigs from upwork is hard.

100% okay

DrLevi:
I can't even find the button

Any video verification needed?

Yes, if you haven't gotten invite to video verification, try to make your profile completeness to be on 100%, also try to land a job.

jackest1:
I thought the shorter and more direct, the better.
Well thanks boss, will see to it

The shorter and more direct approach works if your profile has more exciting things to look at ( reviews and portfolios) but you only have one portfolio, so your profile description needs to do the talking for now until you get reviews.

jackest1:
Hello Guys,
I'll appreciate if you can take few minutes of your time to review my Upwork profile.
Is there anyway it can be improved?

Thanks in advance

www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/~010ad81ae6b422e5c7

For an "expert flutter app developer", Your profile description is too short, you also need to upload more portfolio.

Any plug for xiaomi mi 11 (global version)?

sEGXY2:
I don't know if anyone is still here, I have some couple of questions and I'm hoping to get answers here.

1) The name I used to sign up on upwork is not my actual name. I understand that there will be routine ID checks. I have tried changing the name but it seems impossible. should I just create another account or there is a way to change names?

2) How do you identify a high demand niche on upwork?

3) is it advisable to Buy reviews at first??

codedboy95 qtguru

You will have issues, if you can't change your name, create a new account

2) There are a lot of categories on upwork, just search one by one if you have the time or narrow down your search to niches you are interested in, see how many times client posts jobs in that niche.

3) no comment

lazyDev:
Drawing inspiration from Nairaland and Discord, I give you Discuscity ( https://discuscity.netlify.app ) a real time chat app...

Key Features: Real time messaging, Creation of topics and posts, Like and Dislike other user's posts, Admin can push to front page, Updating Personal Data, Viewing other user's profile, etc.

Technology Used: Front-end React JS, Backend Django Rest Framework, Socketio, React Hook Form, Material UI, Eventlet, etc.

URL: https://discuscity.netlify.app

username: test3

password: !15rfbDIIItg

PS: This is just a Side Project whose backend is hosted entirely on Heroku free tire. Hence, it's slow to load and anytime dynos are refreshed (less than 24 hours) all uploaded images are cleared (only user default profile will be available).

Your reviews and criticism are highly welcomed. Thanks so much for your time....

Not bad for a first project , instead of calling it nairaland clone, why not just call it a "discussion forum" ? Also it looks like you are leaning towards backend development ? your design really needs some help , atleast you are better than me, I can't even center a div. Keep it up

tensazangetsu20:
PHP just has more opportunities especially for beginners than Django. WordPress, Magento, Drupal, laravel, symphony etc and more all use PHP.

personally, I won't advice a beginner to learn PHP, except they are looking to get a job really fast. I will say they should learn Javascript or python. Although PHP is a very good language. I have used it for 10 years but I am not very sure how relevant it will be in next 10 years. People don't really rate PHP devs

tensazangetsu20:
You aren't old but please don't learn python Django you will regret it big time O. Learn JavaScript, learn PHP and learn a platform and you will be smiling in eight months time.

Any reason why you discourage the guy from learning Django and told him to learn PHP instead? Because There are a lot of PHP jobs?

M1 16gb?

You make it sound easy, some people apply to as much as 30 jobs before getting one interview invite.

AybGadgets:
Hi Guys i keep having this error
how do i solve it

"Undefined index: address" on line 567 of /home/xxxx/dashboard.xxxxx.com/modules/cms/classes/CodeParser.php(289) : eval()'d code

This error is self-explanatory, make sure that the address index is set before trying to access it. Something like
if(isset($array['address'])) {
//it's set, access the value of address
$address = $array['address'] ;
}
You can convert this to a one-liner using ternary operator

Etinosa1234:
Did u start coding and freelance while in school?

yes I did. I started with fiverr then moved to upwork

If you are goal-oriented and really serious, please don't waste your time going to school, atleast not in Nigeria. I wasted almost 6 years in school studying an agric course and i regret it. now, I am doing pretty fine as a backend engineer and for all the jobs I have worked, I have never for once had to provide my degree. If you become very good and land a good job, you can study abroad and get a degree in two years.

Karleb:
Maybe I'm wrong sha.

most backend developers I have seen mostly do laravel or nodejs

Karleb:
That's one thing tho.

About Laravel, it's funny but Laravel developers are actually scare especially in Nigeria. Take this section for example, how many Laravel developers are here? Even on twitter, it's all Javascript and python.

I see Laravel as a platform in itself. They have an official job site lara-jobs that is more active than WordPress official job site. The documentation is one of the best around.

If anyone wants to learn Laravel, they should go ahead. It has a steep learning curve especially for absolute beginners though.

laravel developer scarce ke?

toby345:
But why do people on nairaland don't talk about Solidity i read somewhere that it is also a good language since it is used for blockchain. I am not a programmer yet but I think this language is also a good one but I have seen very few Nigerians use this language but their pay is damn good

Solidity is in my 'to learn' list this year, just like you said, the pay is really good. The reason you don't hear much about it in Nigeria is because most Nigerians jump on things late ( we prefer to jump on things that has already 'blown' than trying out things, but thanks crypto, blockchain development is getting really popular now), we do have some Blockchain devs in Nigeria but not very much. But i predict that in 2 - 3 years alot of people will jump on the train because the world is moving towards decentralized applications.

I just found this thread, I like the fact that we are now getting more quality topics from this section.

Sirwallace:
Nice.
Which freelancing site do you use?

I just got kicked out of fiverr when I was unable to complete their ID verification.

upwork.com

Etinosa1234:
Hey boss, pls after learning, did u look for a job first or u started freelancing first?

I am at cross roads

Hi Boss, I learnt on freelancing jobs, i believe it gave me the experience i needed because i had to work on various task i never worked in before

wordsNOTswords:
. There is still plugins for paystack like websites. Your answer should have been, web developer just choose to code for theirselves for bragging right purposes and probably because of the frequent update that comes when you decide to use plugins.

If you are doing basic payment integration, then those plugin will be just okay, if you are doing something more complicated, you will need to build the plugin yourself. I am not a fan of reinventing the wheel, if a plugin doesn't have a particular feature i want, i will rather just fork the plug-in, add my edits to it. I will only do a complete re-write if the plugin isn't well written. But then i don't even do WordPress

SuperKlean:
hello bro, do you need a mentee or a student? I'm looking for someone that can put me through. Can I DM you?

Hi bro, currently I don't even have enough time for myself not to talk of mentoring someone, but I can answer questions. you can send a dm

justli:
You obviously haven't built anything since you don't have an appreciation for long hours of work. Developers spend hours sometimes days trying to fix a bug. It's an obsession, it keeps you awake. With a problem up in your head, you don't feel happy going to sleep. And finally you fix it, the joy is priceless and you feel accomplished.

That's the life of a developer, it's not a path for a lazy man. Wozniak didn't single handedly build a computer and code an OS from scratch just by working two hours a day.
And if for any reason you see the hours you spend as some kind of suffering, then maybe this path isn't for you.

Lastly, I see a lot of people put the cart before the horse when they emphasize techpreneur and building a project you can commercialize as a beginner.

My suggestion: as a beginner, concentrate on really understanding your art: the art of coding. Learn it well to be able to get a good job in a tech company. Even if you are working on a project, which I highly recommend, let it be for the purpose of learning and boosting your profile. When you land a job, you'll learn what it takes to build and run a successful tech agency hands-on.

Anybody can code a profile matching platform like facebook, or a news forum like Nairaland but how many can run the business of facebook or Nairaland?

Man, you talk too much, never assume what you don't know man. It's very wrong. If I tell you I need to reduce the hours I spend on my laptop screen, I have my reasons.

Attached below 1) My freelance account on upwork
2) My contributions on github

Does any of the two looks "beginner" to you ?


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justli:
Why confuse people? What do you stand to gain? Did he tell you he is made? A young man is putting his sweat equity, learning discipline and getting technical problem solving dept, the type that comes from long hours of coding, and you are here talking about diminishing returns.

Go read the book, the outliers by Gladwel, and Mastery by Robert Greene, then you'll know the place of time in conquering an art and mastering it.
Most people just learn html and css then run off the street as the latest "web developer". Tomorrow they will say no job

Hi, if someone tells you not to work hard and you follow what the person says, then you are the cause of your own problem. He is not a toddler, that comment i made is my on view, i feel i have gotten to that stage where i need to spend lesser time on my screen.

ABCthings:
Why are you coding sha? Just curious.

so I won't have to be drinking garri every day lol

CSTRR:
Coding is an investment in your future.

The more the hours you put in, the better you become.

I have a Friend that gets Jobs of 250-500k Evey month on average.
I know when he started 3 years ago.

He recently passed Turing interview and is getting freelance jobs that is bigger than Yahoo Yahoo.

250k - 400k is like the basic salary for a mid level reactjs developer. Some people make more than 2m per month writing code. I know few here on nairaland that does.

Ugandatales:
In what way is it affecting your health? I'm just curious

it causes burn out and stress, staring too long on the computer screen can also affect eye sight

Lagoon0:
B4 you start talking off key. What language do you code?

off key? I code in PHP ( Symfony and laravel), Vuejs on frontend. Because of work, i recently started working with Reactjs and angularjs. For side projects i write FastApi ( python)

captainamiedi1:
You are right if only u don have deadline to meet but when you have deadline, u have to be productive

yea, your name sounds family, worked at pftp organization?

paulesting:
2 in the morning
2 in the afternoon
And 2 at night

E be like drug prescription

qtguru:
I mostly code more than 18hrs, we are working on a personal project so it is alot of work, but I plan to reduce the hours,

18hrs in a day or one week? If it's a day, man that's extreme. So you have less than 4 hrs sleep everyday? Also how do you track time spent?