My first $100 from online freelance job through oDesk!
// November 26th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Freelance
It is one of my dream to be come a freelancer and now I am actually working on as it. Working when you are sitting comfortably at your home and doing works that you really love to do. Earn some pocket money and pay the bills. You choose the job that you are comfortable to work on while having time to be with your family.
This is the proof my payment! =D (Click to see larger image)
My current buyer are both from US and we communicate through email and skype, it was quite nervous at first to communicate with someone that live at the other part of the world. It was mid-night during my first conversation with my employer. As you can see my pay is quite low at $2.5 per hour, but it is better than couldn’t find at job to start.I believe as long you get nice feedback at there, there will be plenty of work you can get from there with higher pay rate in the future ;).
Now I am going to share how you can be a freelancer through oDesk !
Why I choose oDesk?
Because oDesk says,
We guarantee work to employers that every hour billed is an hour worked.
We guarantee payment to providers that every hour worked is an hour paid.
I’ve join oDesk since April 2009 but I am busy with my academic and internship so I did not take any job on oDesk until October. There is a lot of features inside that really helps you to promote yourself to get attention from the buyer (people who looking freelancer like us) and also competing with with providers (freelancers) around the world.
There are two types of job regarding the payments in oDesk, Hourly & Fixed Price job. I prefer hourly job because oDesk guarantee you will get the payment through their system. They have a program that you need to install in your computer to keep track as a proof that you are actually working. It is running on hourly rate so how much time you took to finish a job is how much you can earn. While fixed price job oDesk cannot guarantee about the payment, but I think oDesk is working on it to provide safer working environment for freelancer.
Take Test!
One of the features that I like is to be able to take TEST! I admit that I hate test at school but I love it in oDesk, because you can retake as many time as you want and show the best score you can achieve to show buyers. But you only can retake test after one month on the same paper. There is a lot of test you can choose from to test you skills and knowledge. Image below shows some(those that I passed =p) test that I’ve taken.
Also you can put up your portfolio, don’t let them hide in your computer storage, show the world what you can do and earn some money from it!
Wide variety of jobs
There is various kind of jobs you can find at oDesk and is not only for designer,
- Design & Multimedia
- Web Development
- Software Development
- Writing & Translation
- Administrative Support
- Customer Service
- Sales & Marketing
- Business Services
- Networking & Information Systems
So if you are interested, make sure you take a visit to their site and see how it works, if you have any question, you can ask me by leaving comments and hope that I will be able to help you.
