My Success Story: Freelancer Diary

How do I become a successful freelancer?

Abir Milon
ILLUMINATION
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4 min readApr 6, 2021

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I spent ten years of my life as a freelancer and officially turned age 30. How wrong, this life full of guilt and love, and 30 years lost from that little life. And I worked as a freelancer for ten years of hard work. But not exactly! I have lost, but I have learned. Today I am writing about freelancing life.

But it would be impossible to write about this ten-year life. So I want to write about freelancing life. While there is more freedom in this life than a job, the battle for survival is no more minor. Although the value of the certificate is not in this life, the importance of education is immense. If you are incompetent like me, you have to go around with empty pockets like me.

How Do I work?

Many ask me what I do professionally. My straightforward answer: — I am a negligible Dev-Ops Engineer (Docker, AWS) and Content Writer. I do nothing professionally outside of these two jobs. And let’s go and learn; they are just for fun, for gaining knowledge.

Besides, my other hobbies are: — Blogging, creating apps, designing tricks, learning hacking, YouTube and Facebooking. And meanwhile, I do what I like, and I give up if I don’t like it.

There are accounts of different professions on two platforms in my freelancing marketplace — one as a dev-ops and the other as a content writer. I started learning some programs, including Java, when I was a Diploma Engineering student, but what I was learning was not enough. I felt so hard that the languages ​​of the program seemed to be jamming in my head. I still did not give up but always could not succeed in that way.
I did a lot of sites with Peperonity and Wapka in 2007–08. After 2012, I started learning WordPress and Joomla CMS.

Although I could make a website with these two CMS, I was not too fond of web design or development as a profession. I started learning some programs from the internet. After becoming a diploma engineer, I open an account with a freelancer. But I couldn’t think about what to do, because I couldn’t do any work.

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I used the first Windows operating system as well as the Ubuntu system. Even now, I only have the Ubuntu system installed on one of my laptops. Being an Ubuntu lover, I know and keep learning about docker containers. There are two countries to be mentioned here, one is Pakistan, and the other is India. Many Dev-Ops expert friends from these two countries have always helped me. I will be forever grateful to them. They taught me that I could do entry-level work, and at the same time, I was worried about my career.

My First Freelancing Job:-

The first job I got as a freelancer was this docker, and it was the first job I got from a client in my life. The task was to run the docker on the client’s Windows machine and test a Java app. The job rate was only 25 USD. Although I was able to do it successfully, there were complications. Because that time, I am inexperienced. Then I kept trying to do one thing after another with docker. I want to see myself as a skilled Dev-Ops engineer in the future. That is my first professional career; I can’t imagine anything without it.

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Then I create an Android app and publish it in the Play Store. The job-related app had 100000 + downloads. I started earning a good amount of money from these apps every month by displaying Google AdMob ads. I used to make a lot of money with a bit of hard work, so I don’t mind working as a freelancer. I would not care if the client gave me the piece. But I used to practice on my own. But what a cruel irony of fate that within a year. Google removed my job app due to the Violation of Rules in the Play Store and terminated the Play Console account. All my dreams are over, and I am a street fakir; there is nothing else to do.

Then things got worse, and I ruined my essential laptop. I couldn’t buy a good laptop for about two years because I didn’t have money. How to buy! Docker then Speedy doesn’t work on an ordinary notebook; I chased the client with a fuck. As a result, I have eaten what I have earned before, so I can’t buy a laptop with an exemplary configuration.

I repurchased a laptop for only by 130 USD. It was a used and Core i3 — Old Generation Laptop. I continued to try to do the docker. At the same time, I started writing blogs on medium and hub page blogging networks. At first, I could not write English so well. Excluding all, I wrote in medium and did a few courses in English content writing at Udimi. I started learning on-page SEO as well. In the meantime, I got Adsense approval on a Forex-related blog and sold it for 18,000 USD. Then, by the grace of the Lord, this slave of hers can continue earning more money.

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Abir Milon
Abir Milon

Written by Abir Milon

Poet of love, Author of life stories . Digital marketer, Blogger, SEO Expert & Freelance Journalist. I am thirsty for travel and seek knowledge.

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