I Tried Freelance Programming for a WEEK on Upwork

Kenny Gunderman • November 15, 2020

Kenny Gunderman

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I’ve worked in the industry for 10 years at this point, across multiple companies ranging from large organizations to small startups, as a mobile and front-end engineer. The real purpose of this channel is to document my journey and, more importantly, to inspire you and share free value so you can achieve similar results. If you want to learn how I broke into this industry, you can watch my free video here and book a free consultation call with my team to see if you’d be a good fit for my mentorship program: https://training.devlaunch.us/kenny?website=kenny-yt-bio

I Tried Freelance Programming for a WEEK on Upwork

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