I’m not a freelancer, well not yet but like to be in the future, but these 7 points by Successful Andy Budd are very worth taking note of whether you are a freelancer or not.

#1. Love what you do
To be a successful freelancer, you need to have a passion for what you do…

I love what I do. Yes, I really do. I never thought I’ll be doing what I’m doing when I was in high school as I didn’t even like looking at the computers. But once I start digging into this profession, I beginning to like it and yes I’m loving what I do.

I do have a passion. Right now I have a deep passion to eat one good “Kyar-San-Chat”. hehe Ok sorry, just a bit hungry at the moment.

#2. Never stop learning
Every day new ideas or techniques are discovered and sometimes it’s hard to keep pace…the best web designers are endlessly inquisitive and always want to keep abreast of the latest trends and technologies…

Sometimes, I wonder what will be like when I don’t want to learn anymore. IT and Computer profession is very different from any others. IT industry is very rapid and fast growing, every minute, everyday. If you cannot keep up with the speed you are rather useless in a few months time. Having a degree in IT field is nothing like having a degree in other fields like Accounting, Medicine, Nurseing. In those, you can make use of what you learn in school for a long time, unless ofcos, there is a new disease to cure/study or a new program is introduced to calculate accounts.

In IT, a degree is just a piece of paper to frame and is rather useless if you cannot keep up/don’t know what it’s like out there in the real world. Sometimes, it’s so tiring to find out how far behind you are with the latest technology. While you’re learning one thing and not even specialize on that yet, many other new things pop up and the thing you learning becomes usless. I wonder many times, how do I even keep up with this rate. But you know what, the most important thing is as long as you have a passion for learning new thing, you’ll be just fine.

#3. Specialise
Some skills are more in demand than others, but if you’re the top of your field in a particular language or skill, you’ll always be in demand.

Very true, as long as you’re the best in one field, you’re sure to make a living out of it. Lets’ see what I’m specialise at…

#4. Get a killer portfolio
The best way to do this is to contact friends and family and offer to build them a website. I’m not suggesting you do this for FREE as this is potentially damaging to the industry and can also leave you in the difficult situation where your work isn’t valued….create your own personal project or sandbox where you can demonstrate your ideas. I’ve hired freelancers in the past based solely on the basis of their personal work…

This is something I lack. I don’t have any portfolio of my own. Well, you can’t show off what you done for your company since it might be somewhat illegal? or they might not want you to since you are working under their terms and conditions. But if you are to be freelancer then you seriously need your own portfolio. Atleast have a website/blog of your own where you publish your latest informative muses, so people know you are still alive and up-to-date.

Lets’ see…I wanna build up my portfolio, who wanna hire me? Mom? Dad? Bro?? No free job, KFC would do.

#5. Network like crazy
As the old saying goes, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”. This couldn’t be more true as a freelance web designer. The best way to get work is to use your contacts and network like crazy.

I’m really bad with networking. Actully I suck at it. I don’t know, I’m just not a people kind of person. I seriously need to work on this skill. Yes, a good point to note.

#6. Manage your time
As well as doing the work you get paid for, you also need to market yourself, manage your projects, do your accounts and everything else that’s involved in running a small business…One of the benefits of being a freelancer is being your own boss, so make sure you’re both strict and fair…

Freelancing is flexable yet very dangerous if your time management skills are weak. The article explains it well, so better read on it.

#7. Build your reputation
One of the best ways of becoming a successful freelancer is to become the person people want to do business with. You can also build your reputation by sharing your experiences and knowledge through writing articles, blogging and speaking at local events. By building your reputation as an expert, people will be happy using your services and recommending you to others. Blogging is a particularly good way of doing this and is something I highly recommend.

Whoa! In this case, I’m on the right track (kind of). I just build up my reputation as a jack-ass a few days ago. Hey still, I’m building up my reputation rite? ha` ha`. Yep, it’s way better to check out your blog to determine your personalities + many other things than checking your beautiful resume. You blog talks about who you really are and has a greater impact on people than reading a few pages of your resume.

I have a blog, I rock! I have a reputation, I kick arse!
Now, am I a potential successful freelancer or am I a potential successful freelancer?!? (wink*)
Read the article in detail here. Very resourceful and great notes there. Must read!

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သူကေျပာတယ္…
ပန္းကေလးေတြ ကိုုၿမတ္ႏိုးလား တဲ့
ေလအေဝႊ႕မွာ သိမ္ေမႊ႕လွတဲ့၊ သူတို႔ဟန္ေလးေတြကို သူသင္ေပးမယ္ တဲ့။

သူကေျပာတယ္…
အမွတ္တမဲ့ေလးေတြကို တန္ဖိုးထားမလား တဲ့
အဖိုးမျဖတ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ အမွတ္တမဲ့ အခ်ိန္ (အျပဳအမူ) ေလးေတြ လိုက္ဖမ္းၾကည့္ပါ တဲ့။

သူကေျပာတယ္…
တိတ္ဆိတ္ျခင္းရဲ့ သံစဥ္ေတြကို ခံစားတတ္လား တဲ့
မဟူရာ ညဥ့္ဦးယံရဲ့ အလွတရားေတြကို၊ တစ္ညေလာက္ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေပးပါ တဲ့။

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ကဗ်ာတပုဒ္ စာဖြဲ႔တတ္ၿပီလား တဲ့
ႏွလံုးသားရဲ့ ကာရံေလးေတြကို ခ်ေရးၾကည့္ပါတဲ့။

သူကေျပာတယ္…
သံေယာဇဥ္က်ိဳး ဘယ္ေလာက္ၿမဲသလဲ တဲ့
ခ်ည္တစ္ခင္ ေပးၿပီး၊ သူ႔အတြက္ ခိုင္ခိုင္ေလး ယက္လုပ္ေပးပါ တဲ့။

သူကေျပာတယ္…
ကိုယ္ အေဝးသြားရင္၊ သတိရေနမလား တဲ့
သူေက်နပ္ေအာင္၊ ေခါင္းတစ္ခ်က္ေတာ့ ညွမ့္္ၿပေပးပါ တဲ့။

သူကေျပာတယ္…
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က်မေလ…
သြဲ႔သြဲ႔ေလး ယိမ္းတိုက္ေနၾကတဲ့၊ ပန္းကေလးေတြ ကိုျမတ္ႏိုးလာတယ္
ျဖတ္ကနဲ အမွတ္တမဲ့ေလးေတြကို၊ မွတ္မွတ္ရရလိုက္စုေနတတ္ၿပီ။

က်မေလ…
အိပ္ေမာက်စ ညတစ္ညရဲ႕ ဆိတ္ျငိမ္ျခင္းကိိုအေလးအနက္ျပဳတတ္လာၿပီ
ကဗ်ာမက် စာမက် သံစဥ္ထူလပြနဲ႔၊ ခံစားခ်က္တခ်ိဳ႕ကိုလဲ ဟိုေရးဒီေရး၊ ေရးတတ္ေနၿပီ။

က်မေလ…
သံေယာဇဥ္ ဆိုတဲ့ အခိုင္ျမဲဆံုး၊ အျဖဴေရာင္ ၾကိဳးေလးတစ္ေခ်ာင္းကို လဲ၊
ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ ယက္လုပ္ျပီးစီးသြား ပါျပီ။

က်မေလ…
အေဝးေရာက္သြားတဲ့ သူ႔ကိုလဲ
တမ္းတမ္း တတ၊ သတိရတတ္ပါၿပီ။

က်မေလ…
က်မ သတိရေနပါတယ္ … သူ။

mayvelous (2nd Oct 06 – 12:37am)

It’s all because of Ma Moe and her ideas.
I’ll try my best to follow along. I’ll write Burmese and English or mix verses every week.
I’m no poet nor I a writer, so bear with me.

Dying Inspirations

Other day Ma Moe said,
For me to write a poem every night,
I said, “Oh ma, how can I!”,
“For I, not know a poem”.
She said “May you Do or Die”,
“Cos’ I can glare from a thousand miles”.

I begged and dragged and made a bribe,
To write a poem every forth-night.
We settled with our scores,
To have it on weekly chores,

So I scratch and scrub and start to track,
To see how my smart arse progress.
Then my bro came and said,
Are you crazy, what a crap,
That doesn’t make a single sense.

I said, “What you! Don’t be a slime,”
“Give yourself a simple try, to make it a better rhyme.”
But I know he doesn’t care,
He thinks poems are dull as squares.

So here on Mayvelous I shall scream,
To regain my dying inspirations.
And I stare, glare, flair and share the rhythm,
With a little tag for Sarnil and Jason.

Tagging You: Criers, 99Sanay, CMS, N3, Sarnil, Jason

No nah nah not me! Ma Moe started it!!!

Yep, it’s my 23rd birthday today.

Apart from getting a year older, stupider, thinner, busier, lazier and crazier,…
I’m still the same old May and Mayvelous still stands.

B’day Thought : “…..”

I’m so loving the new gtalk features.
I got the new features a few days back and just today I got time to check them out properly.

We’ve been working hard to add your top-requested features to Google Talk, such as fast and reliable file transfer, and the ability to send and receive voicemail messages for free. We’ve even created a fun little feature for you music lovers.

So today, we’re excited to be releasing these features to a small percentage of Google Talk users. We’ll be rolling these features out to all Google Talk users on the U.S.-English interface in the coming weeks.

Via: Googletalk Blog

My favorite one is voice mailing. You can send voice mail to the followings:

• Online contacts
• Offline gtalk contacts
• Old Gtalk Version Users
• Other email (yahoo, hotmail, etc) contacts

Oh when you send voice mail, the message goes like this.

The person you trying to reach is not available.
Please leave your message after “Me”.
Meee!

The last “Me” part is funny hehe.

Online Contact with New Gtalk Version

Offline Contact

Old version user

Non-Gmail Contact

I’m not a fan of direct file sending but still it’s good to have it since other messenger services got it.

Direct File Sending

The music playing status is cool too. I just love the music icon.

Music Status

Receiving Voice Mail

Anyway I just sent about 20 voice mails to my online, offline and other email friends now. hehehe :d I hope they appreciate my most sensational voice LOL.

Oh yah do drop me some voice mails too so I can check out your fantastic voices.

Technorati Tags: Gtalk, Gmail, New Features, Voice Mail, Gtalk Voicemail

I got this link from one blog I roll, and well… just checking what “mayvelous” might turn out.Interesting isn’t it?

Mystical (auuuuu)
Alert
Young (hehe)
Visionary (oh yah)
Edgy
Legendary (wow really!)
Outrageous
Useful
Stunning (oh yes definitely!! LOL)

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