Are You A Freelance PHP Programmer?

If You Are A Freelance PHP Programmer
Then start shouting that you are! Tell everybody you know. Really. Let me explain why I think this.

It all started with...
Hell no, I'm not going to post my whole programming history, and how things started. But a few months ago, I started doing some freelance work for people I knew. Or actually, for someone my grandmother knew. The one I did the job for was artist, and needed a site so people could contact her. I earned some cash, and both parties were happy.

So what does this tell us? I told my grandmother that I was doing web programming. My grandmother told her other gray fellows (no offence, but their here IS gray). And one of them responded saying she needed a site for her work.

I obviously told my father and mother too. My father switched jobs a few months ago, and 2 weeks ago, he came back from work saying he had a little job for me, from his work. Some software package didn't include a search function into their manual, and of course, that starts to frustrate. Thus, my father told that his son (thus me) did programming, and that he would ask me. So I created a search function, and got some extra cash.

I was on a survival camp with school, and had to help with cleaning the bicycles (I actually had to cook, but well, cooking with 6 people was too much...). I found one of the instructors a nice guy, and I had to help him with cleaning the bicycles. I didn't care. So we went talking, and he asked me what I did. I said that I do web programming. And he said, hey, I need a website!

Third job. And how did I got these 3 jobs? Because I told everyone what I do!

Moral of this story, tell everyone what you do! People will spread the word, or at least when someone is talking about the related category (in this case programming), he/she will recommend you.