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The Ultimate Guide to Landing A Remote Job You Love Say goodbye to the 9-to-5. Learn the steps you can take TODAY to get a remote job. I’ve lived in Finland for just over 22 years. I first came to Finland for work—I’d been fascinated with the country since my childhood best friend’s family had…

Get Our FREE Guide to Charging for Freelance Design Work Use this FREE guide to figure out how much your time is worth. The life of a freelancer is one of flexibility and freedom. You can set your own hours, choose your own clients, and be your own boss. And with all of the perks…

The Ultimate Guide to Charging for Freelance Design Work Use this FREE guide to figure out how much your time is worth. Welcome to Slay and Get Paid, a series by Jen Dziura, founder of GetBullish and the annual Bullish Conference. We’ll cover killing it—from every angle—as an ambitious freelancer. Hooray, you have a new service business! You’re available!…

Get Our Free Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! Everyone and their mother is talking about learning to code these days—and honestly, it’s for good reason. It’s no secret that here at Skillcrush, we…

Get Our FREE Guide to Landing a Remote Job You Love Say goodbye to the 9-to-5. Learn the steps you can take TODAY to get a remote job. When we think of freelancing from abroad, images are immediately conjured up of warm weather, blue skies, and a poolside office with little more than a laptop…

Feeling stuck? Take this 3-minute quiz to figure out your next—and best—career move. Figure out your career change personality, plus some easy ways you can take action starting today. Here’s to a better work life in 2019. This article is part of Making Moves Week where we’re exploring the ways you can change your career effective…

Get Our FREE Guide to the Perfect Resume Learn how to write resumes that get you HIRED with our FREE, 30+ page ebook. Just like waiting in a crowded DMV, job hunting isn’t exactly a fun way to spend your time. But unlike at the DMV, you won’t have your in-person charm to win over…

Get Our Free Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! We’ve all seen the stereotypes: that coders look exactly one way—and it’s not the most inclusive description. (In fact, there’s a pretty high chance that…

It’s no secret that tech careers offer flexible schedules, the chance to work on challenging, engaging projects, and actually allow you to use your creativity in the workplace, but—on top of all of that—they seriously pay well, too. But, making more money with a tech career isn’t a one stop solution to solving your financial…

So you’re serious about this whole web developer thing—you’re getting a handle on HTML and CSS, and languages like JavaScript and Ruby on Rails are right around the corner. Maybe you’ve even started building your own website. But there’s one lingering question—how do you get that site from your screen to the Internet? It might…

The ability to work remotely is one of the key benefits of learning how to program—and with the tech industry leading the way in remote work, there’s no shortage of jobs to be had by coders, developers, visual designers, engineers, and everything in between. Not sure where to look? We’ve got you covered with this…

Between saying goodbye to commutes, escaping the distractions of an open office, and making every day Casual Friday, remote work certainly has its perks. We’ve made clear over and over just how awesome remote life is, but what do you need to land that work from wherever job? Finding ways to stand out in a…

Welcome to Slay and Get Paid, a series by Jen Dziura, founder of GetBullish and the annual Bullish Conference. We’ll cover killing it—from every angle—as an ambitious freelancer. So you’re a solopreneur! There’s no one to tell you to wear real pants or not to go to that 2:00 p.m. powerlifting class—but there’s also no one to make sure…

You know the narrative you’ve heard since you were a kid? The one that says it’s either straight A’s and a name-brand college or a lifetime of minimum wage? Maybe it’s time to rethink all that. In a study released this year by the U.S. Census Department, only 33.4 percent of Americans 25 or older…

I’m a freelancer, a part time remote worker, and a busy mom of two young girls living in the Pacific Northwest. My focus is building WordPress sites for a handful of small business clients and local organizations, when I’m not helping others learn to code as a Teaching Assistant at Skillcrush or acting as a…

At Skillcrush, we’re 100 percent sure that everyone can learn to code. That’s why coding is so game changing: Regardless of your age, background, gender, pre-existing skillset, or any other barrier your self-doubt (or tech’s general reputation) can conjure up, coding and positive career change is for you. But just because coding is for everyone…

As I imagine many women working in tech did, I too suffered a small aneurysm upon hearing about this internal Google memo, “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” written by a bravely anonymous company employee (though now that he’s been fired, he’s been identified as James Damore). The memo alleges that, despite recent investigations into wage discrimination by…

Why settle for cubicle culture when you can craft the perfect work space on your own turf? If you’ve been dreaming of making the jump from office life to working from home—or even better, have been given the go-ahead from your employer—but don’t know where to start, a little mood boarding will get you in…