Why Sharepizzlybears?

Pizzlybears are the horrifying offspring of the two largest land predators, the polar bear and the grizzly bear. They will eat you. Fact.

Fact #1: Bears will eat you.

Fact #2: As a Sharepoint front-end developer and administrator, you need to have a stupefying combination of skills and cussedness to succeed at your job.

Effective Sharepoint administrator-developers are presently rare, but getting less so as the environment for your original self - Freelance Front End HTML5 On The Ice Floes or Paid Software Development In The Forest - gets compressed into one field, Underpaid Contractor With No Health Benefits Asked To Do Everything At Once. Sharepoint, like you, tries to do everything at once. To middling results.

 Sharepoint is a browser-based document server. It is good at version control, and telling you who last touched a given file or document. It is acceptable at backing up things that should not be deleted. It is a-okay at forms, provided you are accomplished at Infopath form development already. It has mostly useful workflows out of the box, although actually using them is counterintuitive and involves a great deal of permissioning work.*
*Most of your work will be permissioning work.

To do well with this software, you will need to be able to learn. The learning resources for it are as wide as the internet; it's broadly supported through MSDN, yet Google will be your finest resource for working out what has gone wrong today. Freelance Sharepoint developers are a bit screwed, because Microsoft's learning environment is an Ivy League college, refusing to post actual course summaries or reviews anywhere easy to find. The majority of learning resources are left to bloggers like me, or to Stack Overflow.

Because Sharepoint has been sold as doing everything for everyone, and because it has been sold to a large number of Old Guard who have never collaborated on a document before, it also has a number of very wealthy people who are also keen on Microsoft technologies. It is unwise to make them cross by suggesting that Sharepoint is over-engineered and less useful than lightweight competitors.

There is, in short, even less negotiation to be had with Sharepoint than with the offspring of the largest land predators. Good luck. You're going to need it.