1 год на фрилансе. Что я понял?

Hi, I'm Arakin and it's been a long time. It's been exactly a year since I came to freelance and I have something to tell you. Sit back, tea and cookies. Who wants Red Bull? We're starting. When I first came to the freelance exchange, namely the freelance exchange Quark, which I talked about so often on my channel, I felt something new in my life. You know, it's that moment when you wake up not at 7 a.m. because if you're late, you'll be fined, but when you wake up at 7 a.m. because you want to. It's a very strange feeling when you wake up because you want to work, when you don't want to go to bed and sleep because you want to work more. And I started to feel it literally three months later, probably, after such a hard work on freelance. But more on that later. I should probably start with why I switched to freelance. I have a video on my channel. It will be somewhere here. It's called I quit my job where I tell that I worked as a web developer. Well, let's say a web developer. In a good place for me then, at least. Where they paid me a little money in the form of 20,000 rubles. There were delays and so on. But it gave me a great experience in the form of, firstly, one of Beatrix, secondly, work in companies, thirdly, I understood how businesses work from the inside, and finally, I understood how a business shouldn't work. Yes, it was a job like do this, do that, and why are you sitting idly? You are a web developer. In general, after a while, when I began to understand that this is not exactly what I want to do, I mean, do inventorying or disassemble boxes, I decided that I had to change something. And I understood that it was not a fact that my choice would be a plus. I understood that it was just a change of the comfort zone. Even considering that I was paid a salary, although with delays, but I was paid. I understood that sooner or later on these dates, or slightly shifting, but the dates that are nearby, I will get my salary, or at least an advance, I will be able to buy food, pay for some loan, and so on. But such a position is not a position of a person who is waiting for a profit from what he is doing. This is rather a convenient position to sit down and wait. This is maximum stagnation or even degradation. It is very difficult to progress in such a position, because you are all the time like a squirrel in a wheel, who does the same tasks day after day, only sometimes increasing his qualification. This happens extremely rarely, especially in places of work, where you are a hired worker. Freelance is a kind of hunt, or something. You can devote a whole month to study, and you can not study for a year, two, three, and get some stable money. But the whole construction starts from scratch. For the first month of work on the freelance exchange Quark, I earned about 25 thousand rubles. And then for me it was such, you know, wow money. Because on the Internet on some freelance exchange, when I didn't really know anything about exchanges before, except that you have to pay, you have to have a lot of connections, because there is a lot of competition, you have to pay more to bypass this competition. In short, not an option. However, I did not know the fifth. The fifth is that all that is said above is complete bullshit and not true. Because, you know, very often there are different opinions, and you yourself, without trying what they say, believe this opinion. Yes, yes, this is 100% true. As a result, I tried, I found a freelance exchange Quark, where you can work for free, just pay a commission for completed orders. And for me, 25 thousand, in short, it was an awesome result. After that, literally January, February, March, I did not progress, so to speak, I did not understand what was happening, because I managed to earn 8 thousand in an hour of work, and I did not work at all, that is, I worked very little. I had such an order, I remember, for example, to change the menu on the site, I was paid 8 thousand literally in an hour. And it's like, what? 8 thousand? Strange, right? Of course, such orders are not always. It is clear that we are talking about moments of some kind of madness, when you go to such a cool order, which you do by a snap of your fingers, and for the guys who buy this service from you, for them it's like a complex job. As a result, only by April, I realized that I was doing something wrong. Then I was already on freelance for about 4 months, it turns out. And at that moment, as you understand, I came to freelance with literally a bare ass. That is, I did not know how to work, I did not know anything, I did not know anything about Bitrex, one of Bitrex and WordPress. These are two CMSs, simply put, a site management system, where you can use the engine, the management system, to do some manipulations. That is, you may not even know the code. And I, accordingly, went with this knowledge, and most often my orders were on the subject of such things that I did not even know about. That is, it was like, can you do it? Well, yes, I can. As a result, I went to Google, started googling information, wrote there how and what, and tried, and I did it, I made money on it, and people were like, I shake my hand, thank you, thank you very much, left a response, and I was like this. It was cool, it was a very cool experience when you just import something new that you did not know yesterday, and most importantly, how to look for information, because a very cool tip, I will give everyone, use Google, whoever goes to web development, whoever goes to freelance, and Google will be your best friend in your entire career. Always Google, Google, Google. 100%. And this is not an advice, a freebie, and so on. No, the fact is that in Google it is already decided by someone, so you can google, and if you do not find information in your native language, for example, in Ukrainian, in Russian, then try it in English, it is much cooler. Let me remind you that most courses are translated, that is, first English courses are given, then Russian guys translate them, but I'm not like that. I will soon have a course Enlightenment Freelance about how I did it. In short, there is a description in the telegram, if you are interested, you will go. And in general, at the moment of April, when I realized that something was wrong, a certain genius visited me, you know, that is, I was sitting and it seemed to me an apple flew, you know, such a phrase, Max, what the fuck are you doing? For you to understand, at that time, I worked for a maximum of a week, all the rest of the time I played games and that's it. Yes, mostly everything. Well, sometimes I shot videos. Well, you get it. To your health. I was visited by the thought that I do not work enough, I do not treat work hard enough. And this is such a thought that, you know, it's not just damn, why am I lazy? No, this is such a state Well, it's very difficult to describe in words. I can give an example like a dream, probably, such a meditative process. I very often, when I remember this, I understand that I have never had such a life. This is a kind of conversation with myself, only as if through time, you know, from the side or something. I sat down and, like Jim Neutron, flew along my stream of mind, ala, what are you doing? You have a lot of debts, you have a lot of loans, what are you talking about? And I'm like, you know, I open my eyes and I'm like, fuck. And the first thing that came to my mind was to set a goal. What is the goal? And here the topic of my past videos begins, the topic that was written to me in the comments below. What is this? This is a lie. This is just an attempt to sell your course. Damn, don't buy my course, dudes. Well, whoever needs it will buy it. There is useful information, so that you are calm. This is just a reason, as you know, there are some thoughts, someone is interested, and I have a book on sale. If you are interested, buy it, maybe it will help you. But I don't force anyone. I shared only with my experience that in fact you can earn 150 thousand per month. And just then I did it. 164 thousand rubles, to be more precise. I did it only on WordPress and on Bittrex. And then there were a lot of comments about freelance, where people said that it was impossible. No, he's a balaball, he's a devil. Well, you understand. To your health. So, first of all, I set a goal. The goal was 5 thousand rubles a day. And you know, it sounds like ... What? Do you want to earn a quarter of your last month's salary a day, dude? Are you a genius? No. It sounded like, you know, like, mom, I want a billion a day. Yes, it sounded something like that. But I started to chew this thought a little and this figure on the part, like a cake on a piece. I understood that in general, making an order for a thousand, one and a half, two or three thousand rubles, I perform a range of services that I do in a few hours. And it doesn't mean that at that moment my hour cost 1,200 rubles, let's say. No, there is just a range of services. Let's say you fix something here. I, for example, do this for 3 hours, and I earned 3 thousand rubles, let's say. Or two thousand rubles. Or one and a half. I realized that I had to act in such a way as not to pull for a large piece of money right away. Little by little. So that all these pieces form one cake in the form of 5 thousand rubles. I think you understand what I'm talking about. And I started to succeed. It was very funny. It was like they put a gun to my head and said, Lyubovskaya, make money! In fact, it was something like that. Because, you know, if you are not familiar with my past, you can go to my channel and watch. But this is not where I paint in Chatroulette. No, it's called life on credit. It was so that, for example, I just made an order for one and a half, two thousand rubles, and I immediately write to the same customer, which is very necessary in a life situation. In short, I just squeezed out as much work as possible from people for myself. I did it, of course, adequately, but I wanted, I had a desire, so I, roughly speaking, knocked on every door for a chance. And so I started to make 5 thousand rubles a day. And sometimes, as I said in my old video, I managed to make 20 thousand a day. But these 20 thousand could not be done in a day. Do you understand what I'm talking about? That is, they came to me, but I understood that this order needed to be allocated normally, that is, not one day, and I divided it evenly. That is, I did not overestimate my capabilities and thought, since I have a plan of 5 thousand a day, and this is 20 thousand, I will divide it by 4 days. And that's it, I also managed to do another job. What are the disadvantages of this? You burn out very hard. And for the next 2 months it was extremely difficult for me to work, although my income increased several times. Stable passive income. Plus, you get some experience. Not such an experience, but just some giant experience. Why is it some? Because it is both bad and good, and neutral. That is, there are a lot of it. Due to the fact that you do different jobs, you are both a singer and a dancer, and you still have time to play the guitar. And this is not always good, because you do all the work for everyone, roughly speaking. But this is not bad from the point of view of the fact that you are developing, you are warming up, you just need to have a cold head. But if you had the same situation as me, in terms of debts and other things, then I assure you, if you suddenly watch this video and you really have a lot of loans, you can easily cope. Yes, you will have to sweat, you will have to work every day. If anything, now, a year later, I work every day. Why? Because I don't get tired. I don't get tired. I work with pleasure. I really enjoy it. I sit down, do some project, communicate with people, and I am interested, because I feel that I am responsible for it. I don't have the desire to sit at home and work. No, it's always a desire to develop something, to reach something. Since I have a team now, it's another plus motivation. Plus an additional course, which I am doing now, it's another plus motivation. Constantly some development points. In fact, this year at Freelance he changed a lot. You know, he didn't change me as a person, but rather my attitude to some things. I realized that my view on something global has changed to a small one. I mean, you don't look at things globally, you look at a small part. You understand that something big is a collector from a small one. Similarly, I did my marathon. I also realized that everything is simple. Yes, it doesn't sound stupid now, but everything is simple. Everything is simple, but it becomes difficult or you make it difficult just until you're lazy, you don't know anything about it, you think it's difficult, and so on. It's all bullshit. I'm the same. I also said that it's difficult, and so on. Now I continue to say that I don't have time, because I don't have enough discipline. Yes, during the year of Freelance many people came to my 699 squad and, in principle, subscribed to my channel thanks to the video about Tinkoff Bank. Let me remind you that Tinkoff Bank is an awesome bank. Well, I worked there, and it was not very good to work there. Well, it's understandable, maybe I'm just an idiot, most likely it is, but in such a cool bank there should be no idiots. In principle, everything is logical.