I'm looking for advice on becoming a freelance programmer. My main expertise is in automated tasks, Python scripts, web scraping, and some database management with SQL. I'm a finance grad but realized I should have went CS when I took a CS course as an elective when I was a senior so I'm self taught. I currently work in commercial real estate doing data mining and various "gray hat" lead acquisitions. So my questions...<p>How difficult is the journey?
How hard is it to win contracts?
How did you build your portfolio to get started? (because everyone want to see a portfolio)