Re:How to Make Money Using Grep, Sed and Awk
by iDemonix on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @08:23AM
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I gave up with all of them. A friend of mine is using Upwork and Freelancer (awful) to find gigs, and he tried to get me involved so I could help him out with overspill. It seemed like you had to put ludicrously low rates to get terrible work, and despite paying peanuts, everyone expects amazing results.
I ditched it, joined some communities online, did a tiny bit of networking, and announced I was looking for work related to X - that was far more fruitful than sending 10 pitches a day for gigs on those sites and getting nothing in response because someone in India will do it for a dollar. Although I did love seeing the same projects re-appear a week later to fix the crap that their offshore team delivered.
Re:How to Make Money Using Grep, Sed and Awk
by yomansat on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @09:03AM
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I see... Thanks for sharing.
I think what we seem to be after is contracting/consulting work rather than freelancing, the naming is what'll set the tone.
I ditched it, joined some communities online, did a tiny bit of networking, and announced I was looking for work related to X - that was far more fruitful than sending 10 pitches a day for gigs on those sites and getting nothing in response because someone in India will do it for a dollar. Although I did love seeing the same projects re-appear a week later to fix the crap that their offshore team delivered.