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I am often told that I look very young; I am 27 and people think I'm 20. I've never really thought much of it, but it might explain how disrespectful some people (especially in academia) have been treating me. Maybe I should grow a beard.
The fact that his response rate got higher after he photoshopped a beard on his face needs more explanation, was he applying to get those jobs more than pre-beard? If he was applying about the same that's really interesting, and makes me sad as a beardless guy.
If the results were 2/17 vs 7/20 that would not be a statistically significant result; in any case, there could be other major factors such as time-of-day and experience-building which are not discussed.
The job applications limit and 2 week period of this trial suggests that the sample sizes were not any bigger than that.
It's likely just a coincidence.
The hours logged in his graph (per my understanding) do not show the work spent on searching and applying for jobs. And also tweaking your CV. There is a lot of overhead in doing this. And then you have to log hours for: accounting, banking, and government papers. And then deduct banking and accountants fees. And then deduct your hardware fees (since you are paying for them yourself). No need for an office since you…
The hours logged in his graph (per my understanding) do not show the work spent on searching and applying for jobs. And also tweaking your CV. There is a lot of overhead in doing this. And then you have to log hours for: accounting, banking, and government papers. And then deduct banking and accountants fees. And then deduct your hardware fees (since you are paying for them yourself). No need for an office since you…
I recently relocated to a low income country and guestimated my needed hourly rate to be around $20 when doing a 30 hour work week.
Biggest differences that I could think of is that I bought my house mortgage free and that I have a partner that also makes $20 per hour.
The hours logged in his graph (per my understanding) do not show the work spent on searching and applying for jobs. And also tweaking your CV. There is a lot of overhead in doing this. And then you have to log hours for: accounting, banking, and government papers. And then deduct banking and accountants fees. And then deduct your hardware fees (since you are paying for them yourself). No need for an office since you…
Could you share how you got the $60 number? I recently relocated to a low income country and guestimated my needed hourly rate to be around $20 when doing a 30 hour work week. Biggest differences that I could think of is that I bought my house mortgage free and that I have a partner that also makes $20 per hour.
A U$ 20 rate would enable me to live decently, but U$ 60/hr would enable me to live extremely well (living in the best neighbourhood, private school for children, etc..)
I currently make U$ 8 an hour (because I work 240 hours a month as a salaried employee) and I find it tough to make ends meet (even though my girlfriend works as well, she makes more than I do but only works 100 hours a month)
To me, the most revealing part of this post is how much of a difference the profile picture made: adding a fake beard increased response rate threefold! I am often told that I look very young; I am 27 and people think I'm 20. I've never really thought much of it, but it might explain how disrespectful some people (especially in academia) have been treating me. Maybe I should grow a beard.
The hours logged in his graph (per my understanding) do not show the work spent on searching and applying for jobs. And also tweaking your CV. There is a lot of overhead in doing this. And then you have to log hours for: accounting, banking, and government papers. And then deduct banking and accountants fees. And then deduct your hardware fees (since you are paying for them yourself). No need for an office since you…
Could you share how you got the $60 number? I recently relocated to a low income country and guestimated my needed hourly rate to be around $20 when doing a 30 hour work week. Biggest differences that I could think of is that I bought my house mortgage free and that I have a partner that also makes $20 per hour.
1. Do you need a car? It's a must here, otherwise your low income country is more developed than the average third-world one.
2. Do you actually do the accounting, marketing... yourself or are you full-time employed. That skew things by a big margin.
3. How is inflation. It's around 20% here. Not all third-worlds suffer from high inflation, but many (most of them?) do.
To me, the most revealing part of this post is how much of a difference the profile picture made: adding a fake beard increased response rate threefold! I am often told that I look very young; I am 27 and people think I'm 20. I've never really thought much of it, but it might explain how disrespectful some people (especially in academia) have been treating me. Maybe I should grow a beard.
How can you get a software developer jobs in oDesk with so many people from India in there? Not against them, but they can do so low rates that even if I work 80h/week I still can't get a decent income. I mean below 8 USD/h. Living costs are so low in there?
As a developer living in the US my experience with Odesk is that you cannot make a living doing just Odesk. But you can still achieve good pay rate on certain projects if you choose carefully. I used to charge , for example $600+ for a 3 hour job in the weekend. and if you are lucky you may end up building relationship with your client and get other projects outside of Odsek. If anybody looking to get into Odesk, thi…