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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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What's the hardest thing, about being a self-employed developer?

Is it keeping skills up to date? Is it: not having a big team around you, to handle the variety of non-tech tasks?  Finding good customers? Something else?

I've been a self-employed developer for a while now with a bit of contracting and a bit of trying to make money off of my own projects, and I'm trying to figure out what challenges are universal and what's just a weak spot for me.
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* Discipline
* Not being able to evolve because your interaction with smarter people is limited
* Non-steady revenue
* People thinking you should give them more time during the week because you don't have a "real" job
* Not having a normal work week / no stability
* Stress from losing a big client
* People low balling you
* Dealing with SPAM MAIL.