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If you are in a developing nation, such as Costa Rica, or India, or Brazil, just to name a few, the answer is: stay away if you can.I got 834 LIKES before I edited this answer. I am editing it because my original answer focused on the bad side of working as a freelancer online. I’ll mention the good side of working as a freelancer in Upwork, Guru, or Freelancer.com, Toptal, etc. I am in Panama, and I am in my 40s. Ageism is horrible around here. In fact some people have trouble getting jobs after they turn 30. Companies prefer young blood because they can do the job and get paid less. But Elance, and Odesk (before they fused into Upwork) never discriminated against me based on age. To this day, no one has ever asked me how old I am, or what my ethnicity is, or how I look like. In those platforms, discrimination based on age, ethnicity, religion, is almost non-existent. Unfortunately some people may hire third-world freelancers to exploit them, which is what I’ll describe in greater detail later.Even though I work as a programmer, I majored in Electrical Engineer. Companies may not trust my skills because I am not a computer scientist, or a software engineer. You don’t have that problem in Upwork, Guru, not even Toptal because they have tests you can take to prove you have the right skills for a job. Your portfolio can also help you get hired, as well as your resume. More on this later.Despite my age, sometimes I get calls from employers here in Panama, but in the last few years, I haven’t gotten more than two or three calls, and no one has hired me. Upwork, and Guru, and Freelancer offer a different story. There’s always someone inviting you to a project, and sometimes (although rare) they are actually good clients.Now, let me focus on the bad side, which is what I originally wrote:The first problem you encounter is the most obvious: clients don’t want to hire you. In fact, most of them don’t hire anyone at all. Period. But let’s focus on the ones that do hire freelancers: if you move to Guru or GoLance, no one knows who you are, even if you are a rock star in Upwork. They will treat you like a newcomer with no experience. Resumes, degrees, former places of employment, they may mean nothing in those places. What you need to get started is someone to give you a project and then a feedback, and, most people claim it is not true, but it is true: for that to happen you need to be cheap. If everyone charges four hundred dollars to finish a project, you need to charge $100, or something really low, or you’ll never get customers. For how long do you have to do this? Let’s hope two or three times will be good enough.Once you have experience, a good portfolio, you will find yourself applying for jobs almost every day. It is like looking for work, except that you know that your employer will be a bottom feeder before you even meet him. You will be trapped in a groundhog-day scenario of bad bosses and bad payments.Of course most of your applications will be unanswered, since every project has around 40 applicants, unless the person wants something really complex for less than fifty dollars, or something impossible. I remember seeing someone who wanted a freelancer to hack Google Captcha for less than twenty dollars. Only three people applied for the job. Shocker. Most applicants never get hired. Why? Because clients are either not convinced by any of the applicants, or they failed to find someone willing to charge less than twenty dollars to complete their projects.Almost every customer I have had on platforms like Upwork, etc has gotten me close to a nervous breakdown. Getting a decent customer is like winning the lottery. Getting an excellent customer? Not possible.I’ll give you examples:Around 2011, back on Elance.com, there was this client who didn’t respond to any of my messages. He was paying $400 for a Joomla component that was way more expensive than that, even in (my country) Panama’s minimum-wage of $5. Every time he responded, every week or so, he asked for more stuff and had more ideas, adding even more time to development and then complaining that it was taking too long. A month of frustration, and I canceled the project, wasting my time.You cannot ask for money up-front, and sometimes the possibility of a bad feedback from a demanding user can trap you, leaving you with no option but to pull the plug before you spend months working on something that supposedly required a few lines of coding.Another fine example: a client from South Korea wanted a mobile application for $700. This disgrace took place on Elance.com. Turns out that what he wanted was a Uber clone. It was 2014, and I still didn’t know what Uber was, but he wanted push notifications, SMS, every Uber feature, and also a website, and he kept complaining after a month that I wasn’t finishing the application. He had no logo, no icon, nothing. Wanted me to do it all for him. And he didn’t even have an Apple or Google account to publish the application. He canceled the project after 5 weeks, making me waste my time, and $700.This is typical crap from places like this. I have seen people asking for clones of AirBNB, Facebook, Twitter, Uber, and offering less than $700, sometimes even less than $250 and then whining when they don’t get what they want after a month or two of hard work. Today, in Workana, I saw a guy who wanted a freelancer to write two Wordpress plugins for him and create a template, and all he was offering was fifty dollars. Bear in mind that Workana is a Spanish-speaking platform, and most freelancers speak nothing but Spanish, so this is ridiculous because in most Latin American nations that’d cost at least $400. Even then, there were 9 Latin American freelancers applying for that job.Another fine example of an Upwork-Elance-Guru customer: this one was an English teacher, and he wanted me to develop a website for $700. The website was much more difficult than we both predicted. All of a sudden, he vanished and stranded me for the remaining $200. Project was never finished.Customers that don’t pay me are a dime-a-dozen in places like Upwork, Guru, etc.Sometimes they are original in how terrible they are as customers. Take this one for example: he offers me $12/hour to work on a Wordpress website. Then he tells me that he wants me to dictate the changes needed to his programmer in Peru. I canceled the job right there, since he pretty much wanted me to be a teacher and never mentioned it.This one is recent: customer awards me a project. I tell him I’ll do it with PHP / Symfony. Then he gives me a NodeJS template. I tell him I don’t work with Node. Three days later, we decide to go with PHP. Four days later, he canceled the project because he wanted me to finish in a week. Never considering the time wasted in deciding what to use.Clients who give me a job and then forget about it are there by the thousands. They drop the ball all the time. Clients who pay next to nothing? That applies to most of them, if not all. Clients who treat me like trash? Well, in my case, since I am in Panama, almost all of them are like this. They think I can survive on $100 per month. In Panama, not even an apartment in the ghettos would be that cheap.To make things worse, Upwork has added the wonderful feature of allowing clients to provide feedback even if you cancel the job, allowing abusive clients to almost force you to work for them. If any of these nightmare projects is completed, Upwork takes 20% of the meager money you are making.AND HERE IS THE FINAL INSULT: I met someone on Elance.com, a woman living in Panama. She wanted me to create a website using Joomla. Since we were in the same country, she told me she wanted to meet me in person. I go to a meeting room at a hotel where she and her husband were waiting for me, along with two more people. Every time I spoke, her husband was patronizing me. “Are you sure you know what you are doing?”, “Do you have a resume?”, “Did you say probably”, as I left he asked his wife if she had asked for credentials, and she told him she had seen my Elance profile. I went home, and started working for them. They wanted a lot for $200. All of a sudden, they canceled the job saying I lacked experience and gave the job to an Indian company for only $100.Save your work if you want to use your experience in online staffing platforms such as Upwork or Guru or Golance, just to name a few, on your resume. Most of the clients that you will encounter are definitely bottom feeders. They want the next Facebook, the next Twitter, the next AirBNB, the next Uber for less than $500, and after a while, when they realize that success doesn’t knock at their door after taking advantage of a poor freelancer living in Thailand or India, they forget about their projects, leaving you with little or no evidence of your work. I have been involved on many Wordpress-related projects over the years, and only three can prove that I have experience with Wordpress.I have read two books on freelancers, and one of them is called Mastering Upwork by T.K Young, and that book describes the kind of customers you should avoid in platforms like Peopleperhour, GoLance, Guru, etc, and what is funny is that the author is actually describing MOST of the people looking for freelancers. Most of them type vague stuff like “I need a PHP rock star”, or “I need a jQuery Ninja”. Or they want a freelancer for some minor fixes in Wordpress, and that’s it, or they need a freelancer to finish a website, but they don’t tell you what needs to be finished. Other employers give freelancers entire documents on what they want, usually two or three doc files, and they want a Non-Disclosure-Agreement to be signed. According to T.K Young, they are never satisfied, which is true. What T.K Young doesn’t seem to realize is that if you weed out these types of people looking for freelancers, you are left with almost no people to choose from.In the end, websites like Toptal, Guru, GoLance are good if you want experience, or if you live in a poor country where a hundred dollars is good enough to afford a decent apartment. But if you want to support a family, or pay the rent, and you are living in a country with a mediocre economy (like Panama, Turkey, or Mexico), or you are in a rich country (like the US, Canada, France), avoid these online staffing platforms unless you are looking for a job in the real world, and you want to make ends meet while you find a job; after all, sending a hundred job applications to get one job is better than sending thirty applications to get a bad client, and then sending another 30 applications to get another bad client every month, knowing deep inside that it will never get better.

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