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Discussion on: How do you survive over a year of rejected applications?

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Colin Morgan

You can start with super cheap contract/freelance and work up to make more as you continue to interview.

This approach is super underrated. It's how I got started. Start really cheap and as you get work just keep doubling your rate.

My first paid programming job was $10/hr :P

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Binyamin Galinsky

My first programming job wasn't payed at all...

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Ben Halpern

Several years into my programming career I got contacted by an old client who wanted me to do another project for them—for the same $15 I had been charging them when I was a total noob.