Sounds great! I just had doubts, because most of job ads require full-time developers, but I'm sending my offer as a contractor.

Your Python Engineer job looks very interesting. Do you help with visas?

yes, I have similar experience, I just developed own python scraping solution to automate the process. But many of clients want script plus data and willing to pay only $15.

Hi real developer. Please give me advice how to become real python developer. I just started to learn python from scratch, I've developed my first django website ( http://review.food-singapore.com/ ). I have developed many scripts/scrapers (but seems that's just pathetic) And now when I'm trying to apply any full time python job, almost all require link to github/some project which I don't have. How to get any real python position?

I'm not developer1, but I'm happy to give you some pointers. My email address is in my profile.

Why not put your scripts and scrapers on github?

thanks! About scripts I think they won't be useful for anyone, because most of them are like: "scrape all apps from app store", "scape 30 million business profiles from website A.", etc. But anyway will try to put some :)

It would be great if they would be useful for somebody, but here you are just trying to impress would-be employers.

Zed Shaw's course of course is an option

yes, just updated title, because my post about upwork experience, not freelance in general, as many people pointed in comments.

You're right.

you missed part "without any programming skills". I know there are good coders from those countries, I was talking about those who underbidding and work for $1 per hour doing manual/low quality work

I was just telling about my experience working on odesk (read biggest freelance website). This is not first case of stupid client and I'm not first day there.

What kind of backup? Link to my profile? Ok will update post now.

Sergey, one advice - please do NOT work for $15/hr. All it takes to charge $XXX/hr (or $8X-$9X/hr ) is just to ask for it. Seriously. And keep away from odesk/upwork/etc.. race to the bottom sites. Search and contact prospective clients yourself - as if you'd looking for standard job. No middle-man is needed here.

Thanks for the advice. Actually I already started to search full time job. Enough odesk freelancing for me. :)

Looks nice, I hope they will also improve design of vlc player soon. :)

I am working on that, but it is quite hard...

If you have any insightful ideas, ("it isn't pretty" isn't one), please mail me...

good debunking, thanks