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My Comment on Dorian Develops’ “Make money with coding.. What you’re NOT being told!” Video

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You can watch the video here.

Hands down one of the realest videos I’ve ever watched. Your transparency is very much appreciated, Dorian.

By the way, as an IT freelancer, it took me 5 months to get a TOP RATED badge on Upwork (first job was fixing a vQmod bug that was causing a white screen of death for a kiwi), then I got hired full-time by one of my customers, so I decided to take a yearlong break from freelancing, hence losing my TOP RATED badge. I realized I had a lot of free time working for one guy, so I came back to freelancing, and this time, it only took 5 weeks to get my TOP RATED badge back. Since I’ve lived in Morocco my whole life, I don’t need to make an obscene amount of money to live a good life, note that a high school teacher here has to go to school almost every morning, and they only make like $600 a month, while I never wake up to an alarm under any circumstances. Ironically, I just received 600 bucks via PayPal for migrating multiple websites for a super cool Canadian customer — 54 websites to be precise. And you’re right, Dorian, about the haggling, the lowballing, and the enslaving prices, but I realized something, that is, when I stopped caring about the money, many customers would pay me more than I initially charged them, and I think that’s due to the fact that there are so many shady freelancers out there who don’t care much about providing a great service as much as they do money, and so not caring about money make customers more trusting, and more willing to pay more next time — based on my personal experience. Ilan, the guy who just sent me 600 bucks, he first hired me to remove malware from 2 different servers, and his budget was like 30 bucks, and he sent me another 30. Check out what he said in his review, “If I could give a 10 star review, I would. Ahmed is the best freelancer I’ve ever hired here before. He was sharp! Fast, super-communicative, always available and just a really enjoyable person to work with. Kind of feel like he’s my buddy now lol. I would absolutely hire him again – solid dude and even helped fix more than he signed up! Get him a cup of green tea and let him get to work!”

I once charged a Filipino guy 5 bucks for removing malware from 38 WordPress sites while Defiant (the company that made Wordfence) would charge $490 per website. 😅 When I told him about it, the poor dude almost shat his pants, thinking I was gonna charge him $18,620, while I was just telling him how much a malware removal service would really cost.

Here in Tetouan, Morocco, a really good apartment in a good neighborhood with 3 bedrooms, and 2 balconies costs 300 bucks a month, while a South Korean McGill student told me that in Canada, he pays like $1,700 for a one-bedroom apartment. 😅 Thing is, if I make 500 bucks a month, I’m a happy guy, and yet sometimes I end up making 1,000 to 1,500, and 7 months ago, I used to spend every dime I had on high-end tech without caring about ROI or anything at all, and only recently that I’ve learned to appreciate money, knowing that my cousin tried, and tried to get it through my thick skull that, “You gotta be frugal with money. Our parents could barely do anything for us, so we gotta do what needs to be done ourselves.”

One thing’s for sure, the “grind” has to be there no matter what line of work you end up choosing. Even though I love what I do, I sometimes end up doing tedious work that is of no interest to me just to keep myself busy (like when I wrote a statement of purpose for that same South Korean McGill student), because I got really tired of procrastinating, so now whenever someone contacts me on Upwork, I feel like a zombie, and the job is, “BRAAAAINS!” 😂

Conclusion: Nothing is easy, and “luck” is never enough. Life is like a game, and so the more you “try again”, the more likely you are to finish a quest. Peace. ✌🏻