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Thanks, what would be a good way to reach you? I considered the contact form on your website, but I don't know if you'd receive that directly.

I appreciate the thought regardless, I'm sure 95% of problems like these are wrist/hand-related.

I'm 5'11" and ~150lb and I get exercise regularly. I've tried all sorts of things to further strengthen my back and upper body over the past couple years (and to improve its flexibility), but judging by the enduring pain, fitness is not a factor here.

> same problem for a while... My wrists and arms

Neck muscles, shoulder, upper back. The problem derives from starting in one direction and needing my arms to be braced enough to be quick to the keys. I've tried all sorts of different postures and what not, seen my chiropractor a few times, etc., but nothing helps the problem other than being away from the computer for a while.

I freelanced full-time for a year and it's a very difficult way to support oneself. For every hour you bill, unless you have a very good thing going, you'll also spend an hour following leads and an hour dealing with organizational crap. It's really the worst of both worlds and I'm trying to kill off the business that formed over that year as best I can, without pissing off existing clients.

To get enough jobs to support yourself, you end up undercharging. And the business can't scale because most people you'd consider subcontracting to either charge astronomical rates or are god-awful: There's a surprising dearth of people who know their stuff.

Everyone says this, how does one pursue it? I speak Spanish very well.

I do, and I do.

Unfortunately this has nothing to do with the mind, I could easily hack for a day straight with some good coffee, barring the pain. You do bring up a good point however...I'd gladly work twenty hours if I could support myself on it, but in this industry I've never come across such a thing except for interns and such.

Now what I'd love to do is go live somewhere cheap overseas if I could get interesting work outsourced (esp. development of significant JS software), but that sounds like a pipe dream.