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I have some British clients in my network and with similar experience I am doing well at 300 pounds per day. I know that it’s very low. But I’m fully remote working from Asia.
5 years? Bit of a long stretch with how much focus is going into AI. I’d be surprised if it’s not possible within two iterations of the new iPhone.
Happy to disappoint you. But I started adding more content to my personal website which was really just a CV on a wordpress website… with the help of ChatGPT. It looks genuine and all the content is very tweaked. My calendar entry now has a task to write content alongside ChatGPT for an hour every week and schedule it to be posted randomly. Started getting some followers on LinkedIn because of it.
I asked Poe/gpt4 as well:
Any advice on resources to become more product focused as a developer?
I run some blogs with SEO on particular niches which I frequently update and rank fairly high for particular framework issues. I don't want to get into details, but companies google these issues, find my posts, fail at solving them with the steps which are very clearly laid out by me, and then reach out to me to see if I am available to fix their particular issue. That is about 30% of the clients that I get. The other 70% are past employers or clients and references through past clients and former colleagues.
I think we are too late for any sort of intervention here. It's not like the 0.1% hasn't been trying to access the US job market for the past decade(s) for remote work. It was bound to happen, we just entered a phase of acceleration. Most people with cushy well paying jobs, who are very pro WFH, just never did the back of the envelope calculation when promoting WFH. And well WFH (or just lets call it "remote work") as a default, is definitely here to stay. People arbitraging their income abroad (US worker, remotely working and spending in Asia, South America, etc.), is also here to stay and becoming increasingly more common while salaries are falling (60k in Asia is like 100-200k in the US). And companies capitalizing on their benefits is also here to stay (low cost employees who can be fired at whim, for a fraction of the cost of local workers with the same skills).
It's definitely not ChatGPT or AI (or at least not just that), it's remote work as well. I'm seeing a lot of companies hiring worldwide remote talent at a huge discount. This time its different from the outsourcing we have seen in the past. Because you now have experienced remote US and EU developers living somewhere where their cost of living allows them to be very competitive on rates and salary. An US developer living in Asia, can charge 50-100$ per hour, which comparatively to the US, would be 100$+-500$ per hour. And that is happening a lot now.
I have lowered my salary expectations, and am doing quite well while consulting now.
Where is the data? If this is true, then this is something companies will have to learn to deal with, and compensate differently for. If I enjoy working from home better, but am 10% less productive, please pay me 10% less. It's still not worth for me to show up to an office.
So let them? What's the deal, why can't we have a society where people who want to work from home, do so while those who want to work remotely do so as well? I do know that I am deciding for myself (100% remote).