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Started my career self taught as a kid, from the late 90s to early 2000s. Used to know more than my college tutors and my college peers always asked me to help them with their work. I quit early and freelanced at home at the parents crib for clients around the world doing design/front-end/custom wordpress work in the mid 2000s. I ran a few adult sites back then and sold them at 21.
Then landed my first office permanent job. Nailed the interview got the job easy.
Then started working for bigger firms, went contracting. Was making top end day rate as a specialist in React/React Native/Rails.
Got offers from big home brand companies begging me to work for them. Worked for some famous companies was high in demand.
Recruiters used to call me non stop begging me to go to job interviews.
Had a recruiter come meet me at my lunch break to take me to a job interview for a very famous company they offered on the spot after my interview to do Angular work.
Literally had constant work for as long as I remember.
Then during/after covid shit died down. It's depressing.
Seems nowadays you don't tick whatever niche box you require yet you can perform if not more than other parts of the role.
Yes I'm in the UK and the market is shit.
The US, EU, Dubai, Australia have it better.
IR35 fucked us in the anus.
The gov do not like entrepreneurialism or innovation it seems.
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