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If you're a salaried employee, freelancing or starting a business can seem like a major risk. But just how risky is it, actually?
 
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Test Automation from Tricentis

Once you start taking sales and discovery calls, sooner or later you might have the impulse to start charging people for your time during this process. Should you do that?
 
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Serverless Computing for Dummies

A lot of the questions I field about freelancing and business come from people that are programmers. But what about data science? Can that be as viable a trade for freelancing as programming is?
 
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The basics of secret management

Many freelancers, especially new ones, will want to earn long-term clients. How do you go about doing that, and is it actually valuable to do?
 
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Cypress vs. Selenium: What’s the Better Testing Framework?

One of the most important (and stress-inducing) times in the career of a freelancer/business-owner is when you increase your rates or prices. Is it normal to feel guilty when doing so?
 
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Tricentis SAP Testing

If you're going off on your own as a freelancer, do you need to have a bookkeeper? If so, when should you hire one?
 
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Data: What Is DevSecOps?

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
What Is A Social Media Ghostwriter? An Executive’s Guide

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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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