Why would anyone work a 9-5 job as a programmer when they can make more and pick their own hours working online? A decent programmer can easily find employment using hire-me type sites full time, part time, or whatever they want. You can pick the jobs you want to work, and pick the amount you want to be paid.

How is this possible you may ask. More importantly, where can I sign-up. Well, it is possible because there are now many websites offering to connect buyers of software to programmers willing to do freelance work from home. Some of these buyers only want to have their websites fixed, php code updated, add features to software, or write simple programs. Some are bigger jobs like creating complex websites or database programs.

Generally, these sites are very easy to use. The buyer posts a job request with their requirements. Then programmers look over their request and post a bid response with their price. The buyer then selects a qualified coder who is in the right price range. Projects can vary from $25 up to $25,000.00. The coder is also protected because the money is placed in escrow by the website. When you complete the job, you are paid by the website. You do not have to worry about the buyer coming up with the money. As a programmer, you do not begin work until the money is already paid. It is a true win-win for buyers and coders.

I myself am a buyer. I have hired hundreds of coders, web designers, voice over artists, graphic designers, ghostwriters, and others. I can quickly go through a list of bids and know without even reading the response who is a professional coder, who is an amateur, which one I am not going to accept and which one I might consider reading.

If you are a coder who wants to work freelance jobs like this, you had better know what buyers are looking for. You must know what will cause a buyer to hire you or ignore your bid.

Many new programmers join these hire-me type sites, post bids for a few projects, then quit because they are never hired. The problem is that they do not understand what buyers are looking for. If they cannot provide the information in their bid response that will make a high paying buyer jump up and pay attention, they will never be hired by anyone. This does not have to happen. Experienced programmers are often driven away from hire-me sites simply because they do not understand the etiquette of these sites. I think it is terrible to drive away qualified programmers.

Many buyers are desperately trying to find RealBasic programmers and good PHP programmers. There are so few qualified programmers offering their services and so many buyers who need their service. There are never enough on the hire-me sites for all the buyers who need workers.

A programmer may also take a job, then receive a bad rating on their first job not because they did a bad job, but because they did not understand the how the game is played. They did not know how to deal with a buyer and the result was a bad rating which makes it difficult for them to be hired again. This also can be easily avoided by simply knowing what buyers are looking for and what they expect from programmers.

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