My Freelancing Career
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Hey everyone! I just returned out of nowhere but seriously it's been a while since I haven't written anything yet. My point is I bear stories which will make your ears tingle.
Recently, I just came up with an idea that money is the ultimate key to happiness (not recently actually), and I already know the best way for an O-Level student to earn at home is freelancing. I had already made an account on www.freelancer.com about 6 months ago so I knew the basics, like bidding, contests and other stuff. Previously, I wasn't really successful and did not receive any tasks or earned any cash, primarily because it were my first attempts and I lacked professionalism which the employers demanded.
Finally, with all my planning and ideas, I reactivated my account and bid for some projects. My primary focus was to get projects of writing, such as articles, reports, narratives. I began bidding for such projects. Observing that most of the projects were for data entry, copy typing and just copying and pasting data from websites, I placed my bid on some of these projects too. Basically, I turned on my laptop and placed my bid on every project I saw. There used to be a question which demanded an answer like, "Why are you the best?"
So I wrote to everyone more or less this line,
"I am an employee of a MultiNational Corporation working in Pakistan and need instafunds. I would do your work quicker, more efficiently and better than any other. Just send me the details and it would be completed in about an hour."
Firstly, I remembered the last time how I wrote for 3 contests, while one of them politely rejected me, other sent me meaningless messages and the last one did nothing. They abandoned their own contests, chose no winners, and gave me no cash.
Back to the future, now I bid on a project and immediately I received a message asking me to do a series of tasks (see the picture below). After getting stuck on the third step I read the comments on the Facebook page given in the first step and realised it was just a spam to lead users to their website.
Secondly, I received another message from a much more professional person, with an e-mail. An adviser once told me that employers usually prefer to work independently and not on websites so this task looked promising. I emailed them my country name along with a request for project details. They replied me, asking to choose between 4 plans. The minimum amount of money earned would be $150. Whoa! That would be quite nice for me, I thought, so skipping to the end, I found that it was just a spam company asking for money termed as 'refundable security', which they provide no real insurance that they would return.I mean they just say they would return it but should I really trust an organisation and deposit $30-$90 in their accounts? No, I thought.
So now, I got an another task. This time I was selected and I immediately accepted the task. Finally, I thought I would earn some money, but wait what is the task anyways? I read the project details again and still got nothing so I message the employer to guide me but he sees my message and disappears. Employees ditching their boss and disappearing sounds cool. However, a person who wants his work done ditches the person who is about to do his work does not really make any sense.
Finally, I thought it was time to consult the experts. I found a freelancer Romnick R. and asked him the tips of freelancing. He was really better than I thought and advised me on crucial topics.
In the end, I realised that I have better things to do than copying and pasting data from websites. As none of the writing projects selected me so I just thought I needed to improve. Anyways, there is a purpose of everything, too complex for an ordinary human to comprehend. Ciao everyone!
Hey everyone! I just returned out of nowhere but seriously it's been a while since I haven't written anything yet. My point is I bear stories which will make your ears tingle.
Recently, I just came up with an idea that money is the ultimate key to happiness (not recently actually), and I already know the best way for an O-Level student to earn at home is freelancing. I had already made an account on www.freelancer.com about 6 months ago so I knew the basics, like bidding, contests and other stuff. Previously, I wasn't really successful and did not receive any tasks or earned any cash, primarily because it were my first attempts and I lacked professionalism which the employers demanded.
Finally, with all my planning and ideas, I reactivated my account and bid for some projects. My primary focus was to get projects of writing, such as articles, reports, narratives. I began bidding for such projects. Observing that most of the projects were for data entry, copy typing and just copying and pasting data from websites, I placed my bid on some of these projects too. Basically, I turned on my laptop and placed my bid on every project I saw. There used to be a question which demanded an answer like, "Why are you the best?"
So I wrote to everyone more or less this line,
"I am an employee of a MultiNational Corporation working in Pakistan and need instafunds. I would do your work quicker, more efficiently and better than any other. Just send me the details and it would be completed in about an hour."
Firstly, I remembered the last time how I wrote for 3 contests, while one of them politely rejected me, other sent me meaningless messages and the last one did nothing. They abandoned their own contests, chose no winners, and gave me no cash.
Back to the future, now I bid on a project and immediately I received a message asking me to do a series of tasks (see the picture below). After getting stuck on the third step I read the comments on the Facebook page given in the first step and realised it was just a spam to lead users to their website.
Secondly, I received another message from a much more professional person, with an e-mail. An adviser once told me that employers usually prefer to work independently and not on websites so this task looked promising. I emailed them my country name along with a request for project details. They replied me, asking to choose between 4 plans. The minimum amount of money earned would be $150. Whoa! That would be quite nice for me, I thought, so skipping to the end, I found that it was just a spam company asking for money termed as 'refundable security', which they provide no real insurance that they would return.I mean they just say they would return it but should I really trust an organisation and deposit $30-$90 in their accounts? No, I thought.
So now, I got an another task. This time I was selected and I immediately accepted the task. Finally, I thought I would earn some money, but wait what is the task anyways? I read the project details again and still got nothing so I message the employer to guide me but he sees my message and disappears. Employees ditching their boss and disappearing sounds cool. However, a person who wants his work done ditches the person who is about to do his work does not really make any sense.
Finally, I thought it was time to consult the experts. I found a freelancer Romnick R. and asked him the tips of freelancing. He was really better than I thought and advised me on crucial topics.
In the end, I realised that I have better things to do than copying and pasting data from websites. As none of the writing projects selected me so I just thought I needed to improve. Anyways, there is a purpose of everything, too complex for an ordinary human to comprehend. Ciao everyone!
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