post #13 - Upwork

Happy Thursday 🧡

I've seen a few posts about Upwork lately and am throwing my own post into the ring...

I'm new to Upwork. And while it (along with Fiverr) has been recommended to me by a few people, none of them are actually on it. Not as a freelancer and not as someone who's hiring a freelancer. But still, I decided to try it.

So far, I'm not impressed with it at all. From having to "buy connects" to apply to a job, having Upwork take 10% of your fee, shockingly low pay rates (at least to someone who lives in the US), and now my profile automatically being switched to "private" because of inactivity (read: because I won't spend money to apply to a job), it seems to be very limited in actually helping a freelancer find work. Which is a shame because in theory, it seems like a freelancer's dream...

My freelance jobs have been mostly through word of mouth, and it looks like that will probably continue.

Lesson learned: don't buy into something because of hearsay. 

Freelancers, how has your Upwork experience been?

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