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Reading this made me despair. Getting contract work online should be a last resort.
by coolsunglasses 14y ago
Reading this made me despair.
Getting contract work online should be a last resort.
- Udo 14y agoI don't really need it, it's just a point of interest. But yeah, I feel bad for people who have to live on this. Especially those with decent skills, it's very hard to compete in an environment that is polluted to the brim. It's the same with commercial freelancer sites, by the way. Tons of lame projects, many of them quite shady or illegal, with absolute rock-bottom budgets and dozens of "developers" fighting over scraps. Experiences like this make me think our profession truly is in the toilet right now. A view weeks ago I chided a commenter on HN for saying the software employment situation is a buyer's market and thus he has trouble treating programmers with respect. I can see why that is, though.
- coolsunglasses 14y agoThis is what I'm doing to put food on the table until one of my business projects gets rolling. Dipping your toe in the water and exclaiming how it's so awful isn't constructive and just unnerves other people.
- Udo 14y ago> Getting contract work online should be a last resort. I obviously totally misunderstood this initial statement of yours somehow. For what it's worth I just wanted to share my experiences. It's absolutely possible that I'm the only person who saw these problems and everybody else is having a positively marvelous time - that's why it's called anecdotal evidence. If that's true: sorry, I didn't want to give the wrong impression.
- namdnay 14y agoIf the water is so polluted you burnt your toe, I think it's a very good thing to warn others about it!
- GFischer 14y agoWhat's the first resort? For example if, like in my case, you live in the middle of nowhere or with low expectations of pay (Montevideo, Uruguay).