It is VERY hard, but doable. I am trying to make living doing machine learning freelancing, although this part of "business" makes me just about 10 - 20% of income.
As someone wrote on this forum: most clients want to just scale their Excel spreadsheets and models. There are plenty of similar jobs aroud, so VBA should be your friend.
I then trying to educate my customers on machine learning related topics and sometimes I've got another ML-related projects.
If you choose this, be prepare to spend a lot of time doing nonbillable work, so pay will not be so great at start, but I hope that it will pays in long term.
As someone wrote on this forum: most clients want to just scale their Excel spreadsheets and models. There are plenty of similar jobs aroud, so VBA should be your friend.
I then trying to educate my customers on machine learning related topics and sometimes I've got another ML-related projects.
If you choose this, be prepare to spend a lot of time doing nonbillable work, so pay will not be so great at start, but I hope that it will pays in long term.