what would you charge starting as a freelancer?

Charge whatever you can find someone willing to pay.

Increase your rates until you can't find someone willing to pay that amount.

If you can't find customers at your rate, then lower your rate.

Start at $30/hr then $50 then $100

Then $150...

Seattle, WA

I guess I get lazy when it comes to programming I think to myself this will take way to long to learn and quit.

It does take a long time. If the only reason you want to do it, is money, then you're going to have a difficult time.

If you love it, then you're good.

I make $13 and hour right now. Is the bids and freelancing better or less?

Does this mean looking for work in the oil rigs is meaningless?

Right now, yes. TONS of people in the industry just got laid off.

wow that's horrible. Will things go back to normal? What if you have a CDL.

is the same case with having my macbook pro on my bed every night before I sleep?

Yup. Gives out nasty 'blue light' as spoken about in the article. Try Flux[1], it'll change your life. If you doubt me, install it and have it run at night and then after an hour of browsing HN, disable it...

[1] https://justgetflux.com

wow this is awesome I wish I knew it about a while ago.

I've been looking into this line of thinking a lot for the past year. Beautiful stuff truly.

changed the title. I'm new to idea just been hearing a lot about it and how it can change the brain to become happier.

how does someone who has a responsibility and dependents keep up with the time to learn all this stuff? time is of the essence.

I took six months off for the OSDSM. I am very aware that it was a luxury to do so. I had to take loans, move out of my apartment, and I studied 10 hours per day.

If you weren't working 10 hours per day, 6 days per week for six months (1440 hrs), and you took 6 hours per week to do the same, it would take you more than 4 years to finish a similar curriculum.

Managing your time is still the hardest part of self-study. It always will be. Most people pay institutions to structure their lives with a workload, deadlines, time off, expectations, and consequences (positive and negative). Having the time for self-study is a luxury few people have; most people won't have the time, money, and opportunity to give up for a "classic liberal education," and by extension they won't have time for self-study, either (one such conversation on the topic: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/loud-nathan-he...). That's part of why new forms of education like The OSDSM are so necessary. Such curriculums fit exceptional cases that are less and less the exception.

If you constrain a problem enough it eventually becomes impossible. There is no royal road to learning hard things, you just have to put in the time.

It is actually not too bad. I picked up all of these things in my undergraduate studies and some side classes.

Wow I didn't know it was such a big deal like that. I always wondered why Religious people are against Pork and most Holy books forbid eating pig? Yet is so popular to eat? Confused on that.

Pork can easily carry diseases that humans are susceptible to. Not such an issue these days with modern food processing. Bacon and other processed/preserved meats are loaded up with sodium nitrite, which also helps.

I myself have never had Pork. Just Chicken and Beef. A study by the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii and the University of Southern California suggests a link between eating processed (sodium nirite) meats and cancer risk

Most Christian denominations have no rules or biases against eating pork, so there is still a rather large market for it (not even counting those who are non-religious or non-observant).

really? the bible seems pretty clear on not eating pig.

The old testament bit of the bible is clear on it. The new testament has a lot more wiggle room (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclean_animal#Christianity).