Ask HN: Am I good enough to do consulting?
Context: I&#x27;m a JavaScript developer working a nice day job, and I just keep hearing (in stories and comments on HN and elsewhere) about engineers who moved into freelance consulting and make hundreds of dollars an hour, and I feel like a chump getting &lt;$60&#x2F;hour at this day job.<p>But I&#x27;m only 23, I&#x27;ve only been programming for 5 years, and while I&#x27;m decent at what I do, I&#x27;m not a whiz and most importantly I&#x27;m rather slow to grok new code bases and infer the relationships between arbitrarily designed system components. I understand the technologies I work with pretty well, but I have a hard time understanding what people are trying to accomplish a lot of the time.<p>Ye of HN with more experience, could I consult anyway? Do I have to be really, really good? If you&#x27;ve done it, what was your experience with consulting? What skills served you the best?