I have been thinking about doing this for a while now but don't quite know how and where to start. Do you have some pointers? I have seen this posted a bunch of time by various people but never really got up to asking them.

Things I am uncertain about: * Organization/Admin set-up required to get going with me being the only person * Finding programming projects, clients * A good hourly rate to be charged

A little about me: I have been working as a Software Engineer for a few years now with a very good understanding of python, java, C/C++, javascript (learning React these days), databases, bash scripts. Have some experience with elasticsearch, big data (hadooop/hive), scala.