8 months worth of work for only $20k? This doesn't sound like a successful experience - more like you were highly over worked and under paid.
It probably would have been more beneficial to have marketed your services for 80 hours and be able to land a $20k project as well as a lasting client.
After working +1200 hours in oDesk
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#128 months worth of work for only $20k? This doesn't sound like a successful experience - more like you were highly over worked and under paid. It probably would have been more beneficial to have marketed your services for 80 hours and be able to land a $20k project as well as a lasting client.
Agreed, and this is basically what we do for devs who want to do contract work -- help find clients that pay well and don't suck. (http://getlambda.com)
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#13How do you get people to pay you? The couple of times I've worked through oDesk the person disappeared after I delivered.
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#148 months worth of work for only $20k? This doesn't sound like a successful experience - more like you were highly over worked and under paid. It probably would have been more beneficial to have marketed your services for 80 hours and be able to land a $20k project as well as a lasting client.
Agreed, and this is basically what we do for devs who want to do contract work -- help find clients that pay well and don't suck. ( http://getlambda.com )
There is a difference between contextual self-promotion and irrelevant spamming. What you are doing is the latter. Please limit the advertising, it only hurts the PR with not much to gain.
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#158 months worth of work for only $20k? This doesn't sound like a successful experience - more like you were highly over worked and under paid. It probably would have been more beneficial to have marketed your services for 80 hours and be able to land a $20k project as well as a lasting client.
Yeah, so income on oDesk for hard workers is brutally disappointing.
euro 20k/8 = 2.5k /month 1200/8 = 150 hours /month ~= 40 hours/week
That's actually not that bad for being a programmer in, say, Eastern Europe, but it's rapidly becoming a rather bad wage even there.
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#168 months worth of work for only $20k? This doesn't sound like a successful experience - more like you were highly over worked and under paid. It probably would have been more beneficial to have marketed your services for 80 hours and be able to land a $20k project as well as a lasting client.
>8 months worth of work for only $20k? This doesn't sound like a successful experience
On the internet, which is kinda global, not everybody is paid US/Western EU salary rates, you know right?
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#178 months worth of work for only $20k? This doesn't sound like a successful experience - more like you were highly over worked and under paid. It probably would have been more beneficial to have marketed your services for 80 hours and be able to land a $20k project as well as a lasting client.
Agreed, and this is basically what we do for devs who want to do contract work -- help find clients that pay well and don't suck. ( http://getlambda.com )
I feel like you've made too many comments advertising this site ... Seems like spam ...
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#188 months worth of work for only $20k? This doesn't sound like a successful experience - more like you were highly over worked and under paid. It probably would have been more beneficial to have marketed your services for 80 hours and be able to land a $20k project as well as a lasting client.
Yeah, so income on oDesk for hard workers is brutally disappointing. euro 20k/8 = 2.5k /month 1200/8 = 150 hours /month ~= 40 hours/week That's actually not that bad for being a programmer in, say, Eastern Europe, but it's rapidly becoming a rather bad wage even there.
I wonder wht people use it and others at all.
* The clients expect insane amount of work at a very cheap rate.
* People in developing countries are always ready to charge a lesser amount.
* The Signal : Noise ratio is low on both sides.
* The commissions taken by site and payment services also offer a blow to the amount earned.
IMO, its tough to imagine a situation where a sane client who expects quality would be willing to shuffle through 100s of bids submitted on each project.
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#19How do you get people to pay you? The couple of times I've worked through oDesk the person disappeared after I delivered.
If you're working hourly jobs, payment is guaranteed by oDesk. That said, fixed-price jobs usually pay out, too. Make sure to review the client's work history and feedback which is shown at the bottom of every job post. Equally important, make sure you understand your client's expectations before you do the work - a good practice regardless of where you find clients.
Disclosure - I'm a former oDesk employee.
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#208 months worth of work for only $20k? This doesn't sound like a successful experience - more like you were highly over worked and under paid. It probably would have been more beneficial to have marketed your services for 80 hours and be able to land a $20k project as well as a lasting client.
Yeah, so income on oDesk for hard workers is brutally disappointing. euro 20k/8 = 2.5k /month 1200/8 = 150 hours /month ~= 40 hours/week That's actually not that bad for being a programmer in, say, Eastern Europe, but it's rapidly becoming a rather bad wage even there.
Actually, 150 hours/month is more like 37.5 hours a week (7.5 hours, mon-fri). IMNHO there's actually quite a difference between that and a full 40 hour week. This all assumes no work outside the 1200 hours, obviously.