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Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?

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#101
We don't have any direct insight into contract vs. full time, but you can find remote php jobs: https://www.phpjobs.app/remote-php-jobs.

You can also search for contract and more than likely most of those jobs are actually contract jobs: https://www.phpjobs.app/search?search=contract

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?

#102
PHP dev here, I never found anything that paid well enough on a "marketplace" site to bother investing time in.

My advice is to get networking, if you can get into the ears of enough people you will stumble upon someone who needs help AND may pay you a decent rate. I would have never found my "after 5" gig had it not been for a recommendation from a previous co-worker.

I've been working with After5.io for a few months and it has been great so far. After joining I basically jump to a JIRA board at my leisure and pull work to do.

I've also stumbled across https://www.turtle.dev/ which seems like a similar idea but I have no knowledge of the product.

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?

#103
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their screening process is to make sure that creme de la creme is hired, right? Me, as a successful freelancer with verifiable track means I am already that. So is like saying "hey, I worked at Facebook, not just simply interviewed, and here is a verifiable record that I did good work there, so let's skip the BS, shall we?". That was my point with them giving them my Upwork profile

That still doesn't make a lot of sense. So, you're essentially saying that the next time you apply to join a company (say Google), you should not go through whatever interview process they have because you worked at Facebook, and they should take your word for it? So you should not be going through whatever tests they subject their applicants?

Not take my word for it, do you even understand what giving a link to your profile on Upwork means? You can see what they worked on, how much they charged for and most importantly what was the feedback the client did. And I am not talking about jobs with 200/300 USD range pay, I am talking about jobs with thousand of hours and tens of thousand of dollars as payment with more then six months of continuous commitment to them AND at the end of those jobs my clients praised me while giving me 5 stars. That's what I meant with verifiable track.
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