I spent my last weekend styling and setting up an online shop for a client that included importing 4,000 products from their existing locked-in system - took me

I spent my last weekend styling and setting up an online shop for a client that included importing 4,000 products from their existing locked-in system - took me about 20 hours and I still have about 10 hours of time to put in but the job is for about $4,500. It was as boring as hell and I would have preferred to be spending the whole weekend with my wife and kids, but in those 30 hours I just made your annual wage four times over. 30 hours is not long to have to stick with one thing, and if you put in 30 hours on odesk at $10/hour you could take the next twelve and a half weeks off compared to what you are signing up for. Even at $2/hour you would still only need to work every second week and still come out ahead. I can only guess that competition is fierce but you only need to find and retain a few companies that can feed you some work and you are set. So, sure do what you are planning if it keeps food on your table, but set each Sunday to match your month's wage and when you do, get out. Next weekend when I'm working rather than spending the whole time with my family I'll rethink whether I could outsource it for 10% of what I make if I could find one programmer I could rely on to get it done correctly, quickly and discretely. That's my first world problem.