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MrTPenguin:
Does anyone here use the site freelancer.com, either as a freelancer or a client? I've joined it recently, and would be interested to hear other people's experiences. (Other sites offering similar services are upwork, guru, and fiverr, but the phuckers at upwork blocked my application.)

Sensei:
2 ppl from my clan used to deal with freelancing. Dunno if they still do it, but i'll try to get them to come in the thread.

MrTPenguin:
Thanks. You're one of the most obliging wormers here!

Sensei:
Haha, it's nothing really, but thx, appreciate it. I contacted them, let's hope they bounce in here.

Marko:
Hey :) Im on phone so sorry for future mistakes. Freelancer is decent if you're a graphic designer, you have a bunch of contests where you can submit work you do and have a chance to be picked as a winner. There you make final adjustments and send photoshop or illustrator files to the contest holder and he pays you. It all sound great, but here's the thing. People expect you to lift their company from deep shit to market force for 30$ and they manage to be extra rude while doing it. Sometimes they always have another thing to add to their logo,sometimes they get back at u after half a year, some of these are nice people who understand its polite to pay for extra work,while the others think you're theirs now. You can protect yourself by reading terms of service carefully, learn what you have and don't have to do. Remember that as a freelancer you are their resource, not a customer and they will always prefer customer's well being,so in case of any dispute between you too, if you don't have a solid ground you are banana'd.

Now part for the jobs. Competition is huge, indians tend to do everything for less than 30$ and then learn while doing it. People fall for this easily because it sometimes works and these people have a couple of reviews so they think their work is high quality. In my experience, after a lot of begging I managed to land a translating job cheaply and get some cash. As electrical engineer, all I've done on freelancer was translating and drawing logos and made some money off both. None of my expertise. Also I've had one incident where i was accused of money laundering (again customer-resource related) and they tried to take 10k$ from me (nice try, even I can't do that lol).

Try to withdraw larger sums of money as freelancer takes percebtage of what you takw or 5$ if percentage is smaller. Use paypal, DON'T use payoneer as its going to cost you a lot in the end and you have to waot for them to send you a card.

As someone who enjoys using a computer, I really enjoyed working at usertesting.net (recheck address,not 100% sure its correct, green logo anyway). There you test new games and apps for 5-10$/test on all platforms, if something goes wrong (app is bad or something) you get an apology and a payment. Sometimes tests are region specific so this makes it hard for people like me who live in the middle of nowhere. Anyway gotta go take a lecture so gonna have to end it here, good luck :).

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