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This is neither new to me or out of ordinary. I've been using elance.com for a while and the bogus things I see amaze me to the point where I can't figure out w
by wildmXranat 14y ago
This is neither new to me or out of ordinary. I've been using elance.com for a while and the bogus things I see amaze me to the point where I can't figure out whether the project posts are true or a joke. Which brings me to ask whether elance, odesk and the rest of these are the best grounds for finding contract work. There's just so much low quality noise on these sites
- Dove 14y agoI don't think the noise matters. Just the signal. There are a lot of impossible projects, on impossible budgets, for impossible clients on these sites. There are also projects that are cool in all three categories. You sometimes have to dig through three pages of results to find them, but is that so much different from finding work elsewhere?
- ilaksh 14y agoI have done some work on odesk and other similar sites. The big problem for me is that almost none of them have real budgets and I live in the United States. Real meaning, money that will pay for people to live in the United States. While working for someone on odesk or vworker or something, at those times, I was barely able to pay my half of the rent.
- Dove 14y agoWe've had different experiences, then. I've done work through vworker -- now freelancer -- for the last couple years, and at no time have I had trouble getting work at my target rate. Sure, I pass a lot of projects that can't afford my work on the way to the ones that can. It's only the ones you say 'yes' to that matter, though.