Pro Designer Gary Simon Talks Freelance + Career Tips [Podcast

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Gary Simon, a developer and designer who started DesignCourse.com and has published several courses on freeCodeCamp.org over the years.
We talk about:
- Growing up in rural Ohio, marrying young, and staying out there despite his success as a developer and entrepreneur.
- Early client work, and how he designed thousands of logos for clients before becoming an all-out web developer.
- Using his skills to help his wife start her own lactation consultant business online
- Gary's guitar shredding chops.
I recorded this podcast live and I haven't edited it at all. I want to capture the feel of a real live conversation, with all the human quirks that entails.
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1995s Nintendo game.
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Links we talk about during the interview:
- Gary's Learn UI Fundamentals course on freeCodeCamp: www.freecodecamp.org/news/lea...
- Gary's freeCodeCamp live stream series: www.freecodecamp.org/news/des...
- Gary's tool for memorizing the Guitar fretboard and it's 49 notes: fretastic.com/
- Gary's Retrowave Guitar music video: • Hello World (Retrowave...
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[@DesignCourse]

Thanks for having me on. Good talkin!

[@JesseWeigel]

Another great interview! This has me thinking about creating video content again. I am also getting back into freelancing and consulting. Thanks for all the helpful info!

[@Javy_Valen_Tain]

A good life experience , thanks Quincy, keep up!

[@wetsand7379]

Gary is such a cool dude. I've learned a lot from him as well.

[@prakashmahardapmp596]

I want to say thank you to the guy in the comments who recommended Eledator to me. You've been very helpful. Thank you!

[@davidalex684]

Nice tunes Quincy. keep up the groves

[@Allinone-pb3tz]

This certainly sounds good too, but I think it's still worth considering more reliable options like copy trading platforms such as Eledator, for example.

[@savageteam354k4]

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[@kidsentertainmentwithhoney6590]

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[@jiyan4700]

Mern stack tutorial

[@Nizz_09]

I honestly don't understand why you're discussing these dubious schemes. There are plenty of options like Eledator and similar ones that are fast and profitable.