Thank you Mr. McKenzie for taking out some of your time to reply to my post, it is much appreciated, as are all your helpful posts on your blog.
I should have provided a bit more context, I'm from India and I was specifically looking to earn in dollars. $8000/year is akin to coasting here, I don't think I'd meet any local clients who'd pay anything near $500 for a gig. Would it be possible for me to get American clients just through email? What do you think about passive income, say, from selling WordPress themes on themeforest, or something similar?
I mentioned TopCoder because I wanted to get better with algorithms/ds, considering the present reality of code-on-whiteboard sort of interviews for a stable job in the major software companies.
Hopefully my Rails skill is sufficient :-)
(Sorry for any grammatical mistakes, English is not my primary language.)
I should have provided a bit more context, I'm from India and I was specifically looking to earn in dollars. $8000/year is akin to coasting here, I don't think I'd meet any local clients who'd pay anything near $500 for a gig. Would it be possible for me to get American clients just through email? What do you think about passive income, say, from selling WordPress themes on themeforest, or something similar?
I mentioned TopCoder because I wanted to get better with algorithms/ds, considering the present reality of code-on-whiteboard sort of interviews for a stable job in the major software companies.
Hopefully my Rails skill is sufficient :-)
(Sorry for any grammatical mistakes, English is not my primary language.)