About three years after graduating I stumbled into some extra freelance work a school friend passed on to me. Then got lucky again by finding myself in a well-paid (for UK) devops niche.
- 2009: £1,000/yr Mostly depressed, unemployed and unmotivated. Some income from teaching English and arbitraging signup bonuses on gambling websites. Lived close to rent-free by subletting rooms in the apartment I was living in. (Spain)
- 2010-12: £8,000/yr English Teacher (China, full-time)
- 2012: £20/hour PHP dev (China, freelance)
- 2012-13: £16,000/yr Rails dev (China, full-time)
- 2014: £72,000/yr Rails dev (London, contracting)
- 2014: £102,000/yr Devops (London, contracting)
- 2015-16: £60/hr Rails+Go dev (SE Asia, some remote freelancing but mostly not working)
- 2017: £120,000/yr Devops (London, contracting)
- 2018: £158,400/yr Devops (London, contracting)
- 2019: £192,000/yr Devops (London, remote contracting)
- 2009: £1,000/yr Mostly depressed, unemployed and unmotivated. Some income from teaching English and arbitraging signup bonuses on gambling websites. Lived close to rent-free by subletting rooms in the apartment I was living in. (Spain)
- 2010-12: £8,000/yr English Teacher (China, full-time)
- 2012: £20/hour PHP dev (China, freelance)
- 2012-13: £16,000/yr Rails dev (China, full-time)
- 2014: £72,000/yr Rails dev (London, contracting)
- 2014: £102,000/yr Devops (London, contracting)
- 2015-16: £60/hr Rails+Go dev (SE Asia, some remote freelancing but mostly not working)
- 2017: £120,000/yr Devops (London, contracting)
- 2018: £158,400/yr Devops (London, contracting)
- 2019: £192,000/yr Devops (London, remote contracting)