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I was 12 years old and it was my first freelance.

I was taking a Web Designer course and my teacher offered me an “opportunity”. He asked me to develop a search engine for a real estate website.

I did it pretty quickly with PHP and MySQL. The amount offered was U$ 20.00 (yeah, I know, it sucks, but it was a good chance to earn experience).

3 months went by, it was the last week of the course and he still hadn’t payed me yet!

End of story: my dad and a couple friends went to the school and had a conversation with him. They said things like: man, you shouldn’t ruin a kid’s dream for twenty dollars. I’m sure he only payed me because he was scared haha

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  • 3
    Great story, welcome to devRant man!
  • 3
    @linuxxx thank you!
  • 0
    go make an avatar!
  • 6
    12 years old doing freelance? Impressive!
  • 4
    @haithamSboui its not uncommon. I did the same but with graphic design and parts of websites. I didn't get much more than like a costumer every 3 months. People find 12 yold developers sketchy and I don't blame them....
  • 4
    When I was 12 I played video games and rode my bike. What's with all these kids learning abstract design and coding principles?

    Shit, I wish I was good at anything by the time I was even in high school.
  • 1
    "Hey man will you really spend a month at the hospital because of 20 bucks?" Sound more like it :)
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