This is an interesting one. How would should you respond to someone telling you "freelancing isn't a real job?"

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• What is a staging environment?

This one is kind of a specific question. What happens when you're a freelancer and ask a client to sign a contract, but they supply their own instead for you to sign?

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Get Started With Salesforce QA and Testing: A Tutorial

8 CI/CD Best Practices for Your DevOps Journey

Once you go off on your own and freelance, likely for the first time in your career, you won't have a boss. What's that like?

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Proxyrack.com

Key Components of a CI/CD Pipeline

One thing that freelancers commonly deal with, and that a lot of people ask me about is how to become a "true consultant" or an advisor, rather than just a laborer where the client gives you a checklist of things to go.

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Test Environments: Why You Need Them and How to Set It Up

Key Components of a CI/CD Pipeline

Part of any freelancer's practice is going to be doing sales conversations, and any good sales conversation for custom work will involve a discovery process. What should that look like? What questions should you ask the prospect?

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Learn Regression testing

Get started with Kafka and Docker in 20 minutes

8 CI/CD Best Practices for Your DevOps Journey

You've done some development work for a client, and as far as you're concerned, the work is over. But they come back later, demanding that you do additional work to fix a bug. How do you handle that? Join us to learn more.

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You've just hung out your shingle and are about to start freelancing. Congratulations! Now how do you get that first client? Join us to learn more.

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As a freelancer, you'll find that your income tends to be a lot more variable and less dependent than salaried work. How do you deal with that situation, both in terms of financial planning and making things more predictable? Join us to learn more. 

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Link of the week: Serverless Computing for Dummies

When you have your own practice or business, lead generation is obviously critical. But how should you go about it and, specifically, is LinkedIn a good channel for lead generation? Join us to learn more.

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The basics of secret management

Learn: AI in Software Testing

Insurance is pretty straightforward for those in the salaried world. But when you go off on your own, how does it work? What kinds of insurance do you need to think about, and how do you obtain them?

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