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i heard that Odin is "old news" and u need to get a CS degree for the job in the field , but no one talks about freelancing , as a 19 year old A level student is learning the fundamentals of Fullstack dev from Odin Journey a good way to start freelancing?( ofc you'll keep on adapting and increasing skills such as learning new stacks and integrating AI in your content, just asking as is ODIN LEGIT FOR YOUR foundation and clearance of pathway as these only matter)

Any Tips Please

Curriculum for both still teaches dead tech (Adobe Flex at UET, Java Servlets at PUCIT 💀). So I already know the degree won't make me industry-ready, I'm self-teaching regardless. Two real questions for this sub:

1. PUCIT or UET KSK? Not asking about the syllabus. Asking about faculty, peer network, and which one actually pushes students toward internships/jobs.

2. What should I self-teach for freelancing?

No taste for frontend, so MERN is off the table for me personally

Pure Node.js backend: most gigs on Upwork/Fiverr bundle it with full-stack, hard to sell standalone

MERN/WordPress in general looks oversaturated to me. Millions of devs, race to the bottom pricing

If I'm wrong about any of this, correct me now, not in month 8. Willing to grind a full year, just want to grind on the right thing. What's actually landing people paid freelance work in 2026?

Hi everyone, Hope everyone's doing great, University is going to start soon for me I am a 4th SEM software engineering student first 4 semesters my parents paid for my fees but now they are forcing me to pay for my own fees, ( they came to know there are remote jobs and u can get paid well from there but so far i only have landed 1 unpaid remote internships) now I cant rely on my parents maybe because they are already making end's meet for now,

I have set up my finances and have figured that I need to make approximately 19k in a month to hold up UNI fees, i am skilled in MERN stack, have been building different type of projects and internship I am working on is for app development for shopify (shopify CLI) and other projects too, I learnt everything myself and got here myself. I tried upwork and couldn't hunt any clients too, put up some money for 100 connects but couldn't land anything.

I am proficient in English too, I can speak well and I can guarantee i will work hard for any project , I can pickup any skill fast and work on it, I just need the opportunity

If anyone can set me up with contract work or anything I will be really grateful please.

Hey everyone, so I have been seeing a lot of posts about being laid off or starting career and questions on tech people area asking.

I have been a software engineer for almost 1.5 years now and I wanted to ask what are your main concerns/questions about tech you want answers to.

For context apart from software engineering I create content on Instagram about software engineering, AI and helping people get into tech and resolve their queries. I have been getting many DMS on Instagram, so if you have any questions/confusion drop them below.

Would love to answer them (might include them in video if they need long answers)

Can you please review on it, does it provide any value?

seeing alot of ads recently

I am 17M and been wanting to get into coding,I am open to learn any skill and can spent months on it but I need a roadmap, can someone guide me pls

ok so claude banned my three accounts. Reason that some "child" ( im 20 btw) is using. Bruh i literally coding projects with it how does that make sense. Anyhow, can anyone tell me how to fix that problem its takes my picture but still considers me a child even if i use my id card. So yeah help me

Hi everyone,
I’m a Software Engineering student at a university in Lahore. I’ve completed 4 semesters and gpa also not good :( and I’m currently on my summer break, so I want to make the most of this time by focusing on the right skill.
So far I’ve learned HTML, CSS, React, and Django, and I can build basic projects. But almost everyone around me is learning the MERN stack, which makes me wonder if Django is still a good long-term choice.
My goal is to get internships, freelance work, and eventually a software engineering job.

Should I:

Stick with Django + React?
Switch to MERN?

Or consider a different path altogether?
If you were in my position in 2026, what would you focus on?

Guide me that does GPA really does matter and
Also guide me through the career path so i can choose that path.

I’d really appreciate honest advice from people in the industry. Thanks!

I'm a CS student with skills in web development, AI/ML, and n8n automation, and I've been trying to find freelance clients online so I can earn some money while studying.

The problem is that it feels really difficult. Fiverr seems pretty much dead, Upwork requires connects, and as a student I'd rather not spend money just to apply for jobs. I got a contract once on upwork by getting an external client and then shifting to upwork but no luck since :(

Is it still realistic to earn as a student online? If so, where are people actually finding clients these days? I'd really appreciate any advice or personal experiences, cause I feel pretty stuck (also trying to cover some expenses myself)

Which companies are working with large distributed backends in Islamabad? I'm talking about companies that are managing 100k+ daily active users, or at least handling a lot of events?

I've 4 years of experience as a fullstack developer and I want to start working on large backends instead of building MVPs or products with only 1,000 daily active users.

Hey everyone, hope this is allowed here. I'm currently working full-time as an AI Engineer but I've got some extra responsibilities coming up and want to pick up a second remote role, part-time or full-time, to build another income stream. Not desperate for it, just want to put myself out there in case someone's looking for what I do.

A bit about me first since the timeline can look weird on paper, I graduated from SEECS, NUST in 2024, but I'd already been working since 2021, so realistically I've got 5 years in. That's actually why my current company brought me on as a Senior Software Engineer right after graduation instead of putting me through the fresh-grad track. Everything I've built since then has been production stuff, real users, real traffic, real bugs at 2am, not toy projects.

Here's roughly what I've spent the last few years doing:

• Building always-on agentic AI applications end to end, the kind that run 24/7 in prod, not just demos
• Built efficient user query management pipeline using LangGraph with context caching and memory management.
• Python and TypeScript day to day, mostly FastAPI, Django, Next.js, Express/Node
• Managing Linux servers myself deployments, microservices, audit logging, all of it
• Setting up local/sovereign LLMs for clients who don't want their data leaving their own infra, using Ollama and vLLM
• Fine-tuning models with Llama Factory when off-the-shelf isn't good enough
• Playing around with (and shipping stuff on) newer agentic tooling MCP, OpenClaw, n8n
• Building the API layer that connects the AI services to actual frontends
• About 4 years now doing hybrid RAG, including something I built myself called TAG (table-augmented generation) that turns messy tabular/technical data into stuff a non-technical person can actually read and understand
• Adding ontology on top of RAG to turn unstructured data into proper knowledge graphs
• Dealing with multi-tenancy in RAG apps, which is way more annoying in practice than any tutorial makes it look
• Vault and Infisical for secrets management and credential rotation, so basic security hygiene is second nature at this point
• Worked with Neo4j, PGVector, Pinecone, and Qdrant depending on the use case
• Built ingestion pipelines pulling from Slack and Gmail into a RAG database using Celery workers

Random extra thing, I've got an Oxford University Press recognition for reviewing a paper in the ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, so I guess I take reading/reviewing stuff seriously too, not just code.

If anyone's hiring for something in the agentic AI / RAG / LLM infra space, or knows someone who is, drop a comment or DM me. Happy to talk specifics or jump on a call. I can share my resume on demand in DM for more detailed information

Looking for a summer internship/job.

Experience thora kam hai, but I’m actively learning and trying to improve every day😔 At this point I just want Experience,Skills ,Money

And maybe mental stability 🧠

Bros (and sisters too) if anybody has opportunity to hire me as a Web or SWE intern (even unpaid) please lemme know. Night shift works well for me too.

:(

I have been working with a US organisation for 6 years as a remote employee. I got laid off from there in March, and they promised they would pay me for the March and paid leave encashment. But after chasing them for 3 months, they have now stopped replying to my emails.

Can I do anything about this? Have you faced this situation? I am thinking about posting it on LinkedIn with the company name and the CEO's name as a last resort. Is it a good idea?

The battle is over, alhamdullilah I've been offered a mid-level remote position in a German startup.

My question is what is the best method to get paid? I've worked with these guys before and I used Payoneer Jazzcash combo but I've been continuously hearing about its unreliability and accounts getting blocked for no reason? is there any weight to this?

My own payments got stuck two times and the banks in EU needed more information about me (passport/address) to clear them, though I think that might have not been issue from Payoneer but the banks just being extra cautious.

So any remote developer working in the EU & getting paid in Euros can help me out please?

In Pakistan I would also like to keep it documented, I'm a tax filer since last year and also registered freelancer from PSEB. Any recommendations?

Thank you!

I am a uni student doing bscs, just finished my 1st semester. The question is should I keep learning C language and improve it further? Or should I directly move to assembly as it's in second semester. My university didn't really dive much into c language.

Also how does one manage to learn multiple programming languages. And any tips regarding my journey?

Hey yall.
I am in final year of BCS. ive quite some experience in backend development at a startup.

I really need some pocketmoney these days, but i cant seem to find any work.
I dont wanna do onsite, or full time.

Guide me where to look for freelance projects or outsourced projects i can do for some cash, as i tried freelance websites, but none seem too welcoming for newbies.

Thank you all.