Yeah... I had similar experiences on E-lance... you'd do the work within e-lance or whatever, and if it was successful, there was a lot of other work you could

Yeah... I had similar experiences on E-lance... you'd do the work within e-lance or whatever, and if it was successful, there was a lot of other work you could do direct for the client. Also, the people who frequent those sites tend to be very cheap. the $10K in 3 months of work number sounds pretty realistic to me; while where I am, a reasonably good sysadmin can expect to make that much in a month of agency contracting full-time.