Comments on: Freelancers Happy but Underpaid

By: sharoo

sharoo — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:16:16 +0000

Freelancing is good for the fresh students to start and improve there skills first. But only those would excel those who got technical support.

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By: sample

sample — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:58:48 +0000

I see that the one who write this thing is a mainstream freelance since he used opensouce without any update on coding …Too poor.

By: Marc Wentink

Marc Wentink — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:58:16 +0000

@Charles I agree with you. In the 3rd world you can live like a king for the money you could not afford to rent a garage in Europe and even less in the US.

By: rohit gandhi

rohit gandhi — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:09:46 +0000

sir
im interested in working as a freelancer. i have one year experience in .net. one of my friend is workig with me to doing freelancing project.
Could you please let me sites where i can find freelance .net project.it will really kind of you if u can help..

By: roy dy

roy dy — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:14:25 +0000

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By: roy dy

roy dy — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:12:41 +0000

i second that jason. everyone sees the world in different angles. not all clients are as clueless as you may think they are. i’ve been freelancing since 2000 and an extra $20k is better than nothing. it keeps me busy and improve my skills. :)

By: CPF

CPF — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:30:02 +0000

Hi, I’ve been a freelancer for several years now. First started of as someone willing to learn more though (!).
The interesting thing in freelancing is that -you- have to do the work. If something goes wrong, it’s -your- fault, not someone else’s (unless of course your client has more than one freelancer/worker on the job)

The sad thing is -however- that it’s difficult to get started. It’s quite the handful to get your first couple of jobs, and low prices is one of the clues in there (Too low to be honest)
After a while, things just grow steadily. (I’m actually talking about websites that offer people to put their jobs on there, with multiple people bidding)

The positive part of it now: I’m way happier now, even though I had little business experience, I’ve learned loads and loads of stuff. Freelancing is a way for me to go above and beyond, I like to take jobs that are truly challenging to me. I love my job, and my job loves me :)

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:56:05 +0000

Jason, FreelanceSwitch commissioned and owns the report, not Web Worker Daily. You'll have to ask them. Mike only reported on it.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:47:47 +0000

Mike how do i get permission to use your report in a research?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:45:39 +0000

Dear All, I think this is quite an interesting topic;
Reply to Charles Darwin: I am a free lancer , I live in supposedly 3rd world country, there is competition ,under pricing and what nots but the key word is innovation and consitency.That’s what keeps me going.

Reply to John – Thumbs up man – never settle for thinking like a drone – when u can be the queen bee – that’s what scares every-one about ‘free lancers’- you choose your clients.you choose your time( just make sure you deliver though :))

General Commments: The only reason why anybody gets paid is because he solves problems-dont mention the ‘hang-ons at the work place please’. The only reason why free lancers make it to the top and build empires is because they think like entrepresnuers. Regards Everyone

By: Brian Fending

Brian Fending — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:47:07 +0000

The hardest thing is finding a niche in which to succeed. If it’s plain vanilla “here, do this business logic as an application”, the files are going to Bangalore. It’s just economics. But if you can add value to the development process, say by adding great documentation or business process engineering to the mix, then the employers will recognize that and build you – not just a programmer – into their production and maintenance costs. Otherwise, you have no choice: move to India. :)

By: John

John — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:40:30 +0000

I’ve been a freelancer for over 5 years now. I’ve been lucky that I landed a bread-n-butter contract that I’ve had now for 5 years as well as the sporadic Web business I pickup from word of mouth. There are pros and cons. For instance, when I interviewed for a ‘real job’ not long ago, they looked down on me because I had been a freelancer for 5 years, they didn’t think I would be a team player. They want specialized drones, not free thinkers. I miss having peers to help perfect and debug a web app. It’s harder to switch gears between both the creative role and developer role but I enjoy the flexibility to work 60 hours a week whenever I want to. If you do this, my greatest advice is to not get behind on your estimated tax payments.

By: Mendes

Mendes — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:24:27 +0000

I do live in the 3rd world, South America, here we cannot live on $60k/year, but Asia peers bring the hour rate low down. So there is no way for competition on price, I do not know where it goes to…

By: Charles Downs

Charles Downs — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:35:01 +0000

I have tried to get started in freelancing, however I find that it is dominated by the third world programmers. They can live on $20k where we in the USA would need 120K.

By: vinoth

vinoth — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:39:00 +0000

sir
nice post..
im interested in working as a freelancer.
Could you please let me sites where i can find freelance writing work..it will really kind of you if u can help..