Enjoying coding again
I Have a Job — I Just Need to Do It A few months ago, I left my last job as a remote Unity developer. Before leaving, I had already started working on a freelance project to build a multi-tenant security and workforce management system . It became a fairly large system involving web applications, mobile apps, real-time tracking, scheduling, reporting, GPS, notifications, and more. The project is now mostly completed, but the client wants to continue adding maintenance, business logic changes, UI modifications, and new development under the same maintenance fee. That doesn't work for me. Maintenance and development are two different things, and when the amount of new development keeps growing while the price stays the same, eventually it stops being sustainable. So I started thinking about what I would do next. The Fear of Not Having a Job For the last few days, I was genuinely worried. I have more than 250,000 BDT in savings , so I'm not in an immediate financial crisis. But money slowly disappears when there is no income. And freelancing isn't exactly comforting right now either. I've been using Upwork, but the experience has become increasingly frustrating. You apply for jobs and often hear nothing. Some clients post a job and never hire anyone. Some jobs get dozens of proposals and disappear quickly. Some invites arrive, but someone else gets hired almost immediately. And every application costs money. After a while, it starts feeling like you're continuously putting money into a machine that promises a job somewhere in the future. You keep applying. You keep waiting. You keep hoping. And eventually, I realized something. What I Was Actually Missing I wasn't missing money. I was missing a job . And there is an important difference. I already have the skills. I already know how to build software. I already have ideas. I already have projects I want to work on. I was simply thinking that a "job" had to come from someone else. Then I thought: I can create my own job