Did you know about this freelancing website?

UnixGuyUnixGuy Mod Posts: 4,570 Mod
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I didn't!

Today I found this website by coincedence:
https://www.elance.com

Basically you search for freelance opportunities to work on short projects, and you get paid for it.

I think this is an excellent investment of time, and a great practical way to gain experience!

Search for jobs, for example "python":
https://www.elance.com/sf/search/jobs/q-python


Check it out!
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  • lordylordy Member Posts: 632 ■■■■□□□□□□
    If you are interested in these kinds of sites you might also want to check out:

    www.odesk.com
    Guru.com
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  • UnixGuyUnixGuy Mod Posts: 4,570 Mod
    @Lordy

    have you tried this sort of thing before? I think it's a great way to gain some experience, what do you think?
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  • log32log32 Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 217
    looks nice, some jobs there pay ridiculously low icon_rolleyes.gif but I guess it's good for non experienced people
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  • UnixGuyUnixGuy Mod Posts: 4,570 Mod
    @log32:

    I'm late to the party, but it seems that a lot of people are active on those sites. I noticed some rates are very low, but perhaps it's good if it's something done on the side, experience! I saw nice rates on the websites Lordy posted.

    Looks like something I might try in the future
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  • demonfurbiedemonfurbie Member Posts: 1,819 ■■■■■□□□□□
    my wife does non-tech related work on them for christmas money, they arent bad but the software is kinda intrusive so she used a vm for the work
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  • Asif DaslAsif Dasl Member Posts: 2,116 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Much of that lower paid work is ripe to be outsourced to India, if you get some well paid local work you could outsource it and make some money on the side. I know someone who is doing that with web design.
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  • RouteMyPacketRouteMyPacket Member Posts: 1,104
    I shall have a lookie..thanks for posting
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  • UnixGuyUnixGuy Mod Posts: 4,570 Mod
    demonfurbie wrote: »
    my wife does non-tech related work on them for christmas money, they arent bad but the software is kinda intrusive so she used a vm for the work


    What's her feedback? What do you mean by intrusive?
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  • N2ITN2IT Inactive Imported Users Posts: 7,483 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Thanks for the cool sites.
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  • EveryoneEveryone Member Posts: 1,661
    Asif Dasl wrote: »
    Much of that lower paid work is ripe to be outsourced to India,
    ^^ This. With most of these sites you are competing with markets like India that are willing to work for very low rates.

    If you want to make decent money doing this, stick to sites like workmarket, where the focus is more on skilled labor that requires you to be physically onsite with the customer. I get a lot of local work offers from it that would be great for entry/early career level people.
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  • demonfurbiedemonfurbie Member Posts: 1,819 ■■■■■□□□□□
    UnixGuy wrote: »
    What's her feedback? What do you mean by intrusive?
    they are constantly watching the entire desktop taking pics every 10 to 30 sec and cataloging them

    she likes the work but her work is legal work not IT work
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  • discount81discount81 Member Posts: 213
    I hire a lot of people on there for design/programming because I get it literally 1/10th of the cost it would be in the real world.

    95% of the candidates are from India/Pakistan, so you are rarely going to win unless you can work for peanuts.

    I tried to get some Networking/Server work on the side through there, I gave my rate as $30 an hour which is less than half of what I would normally charge a client and every single job replied saying "too expensive".
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  • UnixGuyUnixGuy Mod Posts: 4,570 Mod
    discount81 wrote: »
    I hire a lot of people on there for design/programming because I get it literally 1/10th of the cost it would be in the real world.

    ..

    you hire them to do web development for your remotely? how do you guarantee the quality of the work? Do you sign official contracts with them (taxes? )

    I was thinking of practicing my programming skills there...for peanuts, I don't mind
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