Sort of ... I signed on to get started as a freelancer and began with a lower hourly price to compete w/ offshore programmers. As my portfolio and reputation grew, I built my non-oDesk clients and raised my hourly price. It didn't take long -- 6 months or so.
Now I'm pretty much priced out of the oDesk market, but that's okay because I'm fulltime freelance and have the portfolio/reputation to attract clients in other ways. It was a good start and I did make SOME money -- some clients on oDesk, believe it or not, really don't want an offshore programmer no matter how cheap they are. They're willing to pay the premium. It would have been a lot tougher if I'd been a PHP/.NET programmer -- there's a glut of those types on oDesk. Good US-based ColdFusion coders are hard to find on there, though. I'd say if you have a fulltime job to fall back on and don't mind the low rate (my lowest was $19/hr), and don't count on it for your bread and butter, oDesk can make you some good spending cash. If that's your sole source of income -- there's no way you're going to make what you should. -----Original Message----- From: Casey Dougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:06 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Question for the independent contractors out there. On 1/23/08, Shawna Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I moonlighted for about 6 months before going full-time freelance. > > Almost all of my moonlight work I found through oDesk (www.odesk.com), > which > meant I got paid hourly through oDesk's system (buyer paid oDesk each > month, > oDesk paid me). This worked great because I didn't have to worry about > getting stiffed on a job if I hadn't asked for a deposit up front. Seems like oDesk developers don't charge enough. Were you able to make some solid money on there? Casey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:251733 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
