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I am started freelancing almost 10 years ago when I was in my first year in university. I was an Android dev freelance, so my experience should be similar to Flutter(currently flutter dev):- it is really hard to freelance and study in university, especially until you have enough experience. In my case, during 2-3 years my life had only two parts: study and work. Work experience is very helpful now, but such schedule not for everyone;- I started from 100$ per app contracts on Upwork (something like quiz guess 1 from 4 ). At the start one app took 100+ hours so my actually rate was ~1 per hour- Motivation: I really like making mobile apps from scratch. Not just finish my own tasks in big thing. I choose project where I can be more like product owner. Help client choose features, prepare AppStore/GooglePlay metadata, do ASO, hire translators + UI/UX designers if need etc. Of course, money is good to point too. I am from Eastern Europe and work for US/Western Europe clients, so I was always satisfied with my salary.- No reputation is ok. I suggest making a small Github sample project to be able to show your code quality for clients. Or you can join an existing open source project. For example https://github.com/Big-Fig/Fediverse.app (Flutter mobile client for an open-source alternative to Twitter on which I working on). Having several articles about Flutter on Medium is useful too.- I prefer small businesses because I like to make app from scratch myself. Another side is big companies where you work only in one specific area in big team. Small business app usually takes ~1 year to develop, so you will have not problems with finding a new job each month.- Currently, work 30h per week. At the start of the career, it was 50-70 per week to maintain a comfortable release schedule for clients. Several years ago worked ~10h. When you have experience work hours is flexible.- Salary. Flutter is really hot right now. I think you can expect to find 10-20$ per hour job if you have a small GitHub project as a code sample + several medium articles about Flutter. Median on Upwork, I think, it is 30-50$ per hour on Upwork. However, I know devs who workin for 75$, 85$ and even 150$ per hour for US-based clients through Upwork and LinkedIn