It was 2 AM, and I was staring at my laptop screen in my dorm room at the University of Texas at Austin. While my roommate was fast asleep, I was debugging code for a local Austin bakery's website—my very first freelance client. That night changed everything for me.
I hadn't planned to become a freelancer. Like most students in UT Austin's IT program, I was on the traditional path: get certified, graduate, land a corporate job, climb the ladder. But something shifted during my junior year when Professor Martinez challenged us to build real solutions for real businesses. ... Read more