Freelancing

Ten days ago I started this journey; working as a Freelancer, is a new term that describes people who work from their houses or from anywhere but a regular office inside a company through the internet. It’s been fun and encouraging, but also very frustrating. It’s not easy to wait for a reply or to custom a cover letter for each potential client, although it prepares you to face every possible outcome.

In this ten days I have subscribe into at least 10 different freelancing websites, I’ve sent approximately 100 job proposals, create like 15 different gigs and just been able to get 1 job as a translator from German to Spanish for a finance company in Austria. It is not as easy as it seems, trust me, if anyone tells you that in a week you will be making thousands of dollars, just walk the other way, it takes time and effort, but since I am not an easy quitter, I will keep sending job proposals, creating gigs and improving my skills and profile to get more jobs.

I hope that in a few weeks I’ll be able to write about my success as a Freelancer and give some tips of how to get a job, but until then this is the end for this entry.

I will leave a few websites in case you want to give it a try:

• www.guru.com
• www.freelancer.com
• www.fiverr.com
• www.upwork.com
• www.mediabistro.com
• www.peopleperhour.com
• www.project4hour.com
• www.microworkers.com
• www.nubelo.com
• www.workana.com

Luis Colmenares