Retired Econometrician and quantitative analyst cost accountant.
Occasionally work on freelancing sites, there is 2 issues there,

1. finding suitable jobs, ie. trustworthy looking tenderers for jobs, and jobs that are not silly.
2. It appears reliability, experience skill matters very little, it is a race to the bottom for cheap, it appears 99% of people can not tell a job well done from a job hardly done at all, as long as it cheap they are happy.

I spend hours doing financial research and am in the process of preparing economic and financial blogs, kindle books and I already have youtube clips featuring excel and R .
I have found R super reliable I abandoned python it was just not up to the task, however, my R has just suddenly imploded, after I ran a disk manager to delete duplicate files, it obviously screwed up somewhere.
I t is troubling trying to fix.