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"I got mine by quoting a price of $7/hour(lower than the minimum wage) and..." Depressing stuff like this is why I've never used the odesk acct I made a few mo
by tdumitrescu 13y ago
"I got mine by quoting a price of $7/hour(lower than the minimum wage) and..."
Depressing stuff like this is why I've never used the odesk acct I made a few months ago. I pretty much only visit the site when I receive email invitations to "apply" for a job, which is 90% recruiter spam and 10% unbelievably underpaid. Most recent example: "creating the official Diffbot Javascript client library"; fixed project price: $75. wat
- senko 13y agoThere's no need to join the race to the bottom. Every now and then there comes a reasonable request, and you can just ignore the rest. Sometimes it makes sense to try to educate the client about this, for example pointing out that getting an oficial library for $75 can't possibly turn out well for them. Instead of wasting a little money and a lot of time and their users' goodwill, they can find someone that actually cares about the quality and charges accordingly. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. But hey, that's sales.
- scottydelta 13y agoYes, you cant be more right about 90% interview invitations being spam. Sometimes I wish there were a way to send a message to the client when they fix a budget to $5 for a script and $75 for a SDK. but the thing is once you have done few projects on Odesk, its easy to get more. for eg, the Diffbot client invited me to write python sdk even though I dint apply for the project and I think that was because of review left by my previous clients. and take a suggestion, dont take small projects like fixing js code, fixing server bug which yield 20-30$, have patience and try for something worthy of your time.