Learn how to earn more money (even more than your main job) working on freelance projects using a proven path explained from an embedded engineer's point-of-view.

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Balemarthy Vamsi Krishna

Embedded System Career Coach

"I want to be a freelancer working on embedded projects, but I don't know how."

Hi! I'm Rosmianto, an embedded systems engineer who used to be stuck with a fragile single stream of income.

Let me first ask you a question: what is the most common way to make more money as an embedded engineer? Two: promotion or switching companies.

But promotion isn't straightforward, you can't work twice as hard and expect to be promoted next year. That's not how it works. Promotion is also subject to execs' approval, subject to the company's financial and political situation. Hell, it's even subject to competition from your peers (they also want to be promoted right?).

Even when you get promoted, how much salary hike you'll get?

Not even 10% (mine was worse at 5%). That's excluding yearly inflation (around 3% in my country).

All that for an inflated title and more pressure and stress at work? No thanks.

Fine, you might be tempted to switch companies. Now, the question is: can you find a significantly better company than yours? And can you actually pass their bar?

Why significantly better? Because, trust me, in many cases switching companies is just trading off one thing with another. Take my case for example, I was working at this company: paid well enough, worked from home, close to my house, had good friends, and no politics.

If I want to make more money by switching companies, that means I have to find another company with the good things above, plus with better pay. And let me tell you, it's hard. And not straightforward. Most of the time, I need to sacrifice 3 things just to get 1 thing (better pay).

Also, no thanks.

I have tried promotion and switching stuff, and honestly those were only my wants, not my needs. What I truly need is just some income boosts.

Enter: freelancing world.

Let's say you have years of experience in corporate world doing embedded stuff, what if I told you that people around the world are willing to pay you money to give them results exactly like you did at work?

It's like getting paid by multiple bosses to do the same thing.

Your firmware design skills at work? Someone from Korea wants that.

Or maybe you have the skill to debug CAN bus system? Someone from Germany is desperate to find you, ready to spend $500 to save weeks of unnecessary troubleshooting sessions.

I knew that was interesting, that's why I tried freelancing from Upwork (for a $12.5 task) to LinkedIn (for $2950 per project). I have to admit that the journey wasn't easy, mostly because I had to figure it out from zero. I've spent too much time doing trial & error since 2019.

As I grew my freelance business, I quickly realized that we need more and more freelancers especially in embedded systems industry. Why? Wouldn't that increase my competition?

Well, that's because my focus is low-power design and firmware development. And the clients want more freelancers who know:

• Medical embedded systems
• Automotive (CAN, LIN, Hard real-time RTOS)
• Regulation and standards
• Industrial IoT
• How to write firmware for European Space Agency rocket payload (yes, someone asked me that).
• etc.

I simply didn't have the time and energy and expertise to cater to all of them.

That's why I decided to put together what I know about freelancing, the path, the caveats, how to get clients. So you can try freelancing and handle those clients, instead of trying to figure out everything from zero like I did. Do you know this proverb?

Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime.

What I want is to "Teach a Man (you) to Fish (clients)". Simple as that.

What I've put together

When I first started working on this project, my goal was pretty simple: take all of my freelancing content on LinkedIn, bundle it up into one resource, and put it out into the world.

But as I worked on this book, I added more and more material, it became more than just a book, but more like a complete starter kit for any embedded engineers to start freelancing. 

Here's what I ended up with...

The Book 📖 ($69 value)

A compact PDF containing frameworks, tips and tricks, and my freelance stories.

I deliberately designed this book to be short, because I want you to quickly finish the book and start implementing what's inside.

It's just 82 pages, so I estimate you can finish it in a day (or two). And start implementing tomorrow.

I write the chapters to be as independent as possible, so you can read them in any order. And can be re-read as a reference.

Proposal & Contract Template 📜 ($69 value)

The book will teach you a ton, but there are some things best learned by seeing how an actual freelancer does it himself.

Development Timetracker Template ⏰ ($29 value)

Do you think you need fancy software to manage development task list? This template will prove you otherwise. This is an actual spreadsheet I made to track one of my freelance project tasks (complete with the unmodified timestamp).

Progress Update Email Template 📨 ($39 value)

See how I handled client via email. Weekly progress update email is my way of keeping my progress transparent.

Project Cost Breakdown Example 💵 ($39 value)

See how I price a freelance project, down to each task, each time taken, each charged price, to the total development cost.

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