I was always thinking that freelancing is a very nice thing. you will wake up whenever you want and work in the night instead of starting your work at 8 a.m . you will get allot of money as you are your own company. but …. that’s not every thing as there is a dark side for every thing.

I can talk about the 2 most boring points:
1- you will have to search for work always on freelancing websites and interact with allot of annoying clients. I can say that 90% of my clients don’t pay on time and can change their minds 10 times/hour. after looking at my time records for my work for this year (2006), I can see that the average gab between the date of finishing projects(every thing finished and tested by the client) and receiving my money  = 27 days. isn’t it annoying to get your money after one month ?!!

2- working at home. I don’t go out at all and this is the most annoying thing. also I’m now studding from home, so there is no chance to go out. walking in the street  and watching all those people every day is a nice thing.  when I was younger I thought that staying at home and not going to school is a wonderful thing. but now I can see that I was wrong.

so now I’m searching for a good PHP/Web Development company any where in this world to work with. I was searching for real PHP/Web Development companies here is Alexandria but I didn’t find at all. maybe all the programming companies here are working with .NET .
so.. if I couldn’t find any good PHP company here , I will move to .NET . I’m already studding .NET and C# 2.0 now and I think that my experience of web development using PHP will be helpful with .NET too. what I know till now is that if you want to apply for a  job as a junior C# Developer you have to know

- C#2.0
- ADO.NET (maybe LINQ after that)
- ASP.NET
- MS SQL Server
- XML.

I don’t know if this new things like ATLAS (they changed the name as I remember) is required now or not.

one second, I forgot to till you about another annoying thing … Mazen (my young brother). he is standing beside me and started crying as he wants to play some games. I will give him the computer now and I hope that he will play FIFA 06 so I can play too.. hehe lol
c u.

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