Some freelancers work too hard

Justin Level 1

October 14, 2014, 2:10 am

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I've noticed how some freelancers work too hard, even 12 hours a day. You would not work so many hours a day at a regular job. Is the income of a freelance day (12 hours or more) really commensurate with what a 'job' would pay? At least for the skills you posses or would be able to use to earn.

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Beverly

Beverly

If you are working 12 hours a day and only earning $5.00 or $10.00, then you need to give it up and get a real world job as even a minimum wage job would pay more than that.

12 years ago

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Caitlin

Caitlin

In practice people who work 12h/day for $5, are persons that can't earn money from real world...

Even a low skill job would earn more money than that and there are many such jobs available.

Though not many people would want jobs like that.

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Beverly

Beverly

make seoclerks as additional jobs to you
Find some primary job, but if your store on seoclerks already growing and got lot of money, then just work on seoclekrs

SEOClerks is an excellent way to earn part time money, though some people have been able to achieve a full time income with the site. The earnings potential with SEOClerks is unlimited so long as you always provide a high quality service and are willing to work hard at promoting your services and keeping the customers happy.

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Topseoservice

Topseoservice

I guess it is possible to make fulltime earning from Seoclerks while you are freelancing. For that you need to provide the right kind of service and should have a good strategy as well.

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angie828

angie828

I work too hard but I also enjoy what I do so I guess that makes up for it.

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Beverly

Beverly

I work too hard but I also enjoy what I do so I guess that makes up for it.

Even when I'm really tired, I enjoy writing as it's something that I always wanted to do. I always wanted to be a published writer and now I am. It's a very rewarding feeling.

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angie828

angie828

Yes Beverly. It is rewarding and the feeling that you get when you get that praise and honor feels so good.

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benlovesjane

benlovesjane

I work hard at what I do but I also know that I would not settle for only a few bucks an hour.

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Navarro

Navarro

Some people are just freelancing in their spare time and it's not a full time profession. For those people, even a little pocket money is good enough.

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chetaseo

chetaseo

it all depends on the individual involved. if you want to take it full time,then you have to be very hard-working,do lots of research and put up top quality services to make sales. you can also use it as a part-time basis. thanks beverly for our comments and advices. i enjoy reading your comments.very educative.

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ssam

ssam

It is very difficult to earn more money online,mostly people just earn $100 or more,that isn't enough in compare to offline Job.
Only Some People Earn Excellent Income ($5000-$10000+)From Online By Doing Very Hard work. Rest of the people give up quitting the online job.

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Promodrone

Promodrone

The problem for those who are going at it that way, are going at it ALL WRONG. I've been freelancing long enough to know that I will NEVER, EVER do those ludicrously-priced jobs for anyone. It's about putting up your own original products or services and charging a fair market price for them, or, selling items that ARE NOT in the Marketplace, and you know have definite appeal. And it's all about putting up numbers. I just joined CodeClerks (and the other 2 sites in the webring), and I'm well aware that no one is going to take a chance on the new people unless they make themselves stand out from the rest. And I'm not just relying on CodeClerks - I'm selling products and services in Classifieds, Website/Business/Any Type of Directory, as well as two or three other different sources of traffic/eyeballs to make the dough come in on a daily basis. It'll take me a second to crack CodeClerks for the sales I know are there, but it's going to take a few days of steadily plugging at it. It's a little hard, but I manage to eat EVERYDAY (lol!)...

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Augustinus

Augustinus

If someone work 12 hours per day for such a little money he/she should consider what he/she is doing

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mystagon

mystagon

well i work hard and i enjoy it

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dragonhunter95

dragonhunter95

Some of the people here earns nothing but still there to fun...

Some are earning smaller amounts, But waiting improvemnet..

I think the time you spend is worth if you have a plan :-)

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farahkhan

farahkhan

It totally depends on what suits you . When I came to this platform I was like 5$ a week but in my country average payscale is 500$ a month so it was like a good pocket money . But after I got level 2 there was serious change in sales and I was getting like 100-120$ a week after Level 3 I was at 500-800$ a week after level X now there is no comparison and my sales got 10 times more after Level X .
So For my personal experience as I a software developer I know how much salary a software developer earn outside but as my academics is related to computer and softwares I stick with seoclerks and to be very honest I work only 1-2 hour a day and I am earning so good with seocelrks almost 2-3k$ a month .

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Avellana

Avellana

In practice people who work 12h/day for $5, are persons that can't earn money from real world...

Maybe they are just not trying to get a real job or this freelancing is the easy way out or maybe the only thing they know to do with life.

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chetaseo

chetaseo

hmmm,. farah, you have eaxactly describe what the average pay looks like in my own country. but i havent really make that amount in a month that you are now earning. congrats to you. you can even use seoclerks to earn a living. i hope to get to your level someday.

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Corzhens

Corzhens

The amount of earnings as a freelancer is giving me apprehension because it's scary to think that freelancing will be my bread and butter some years from now. At present, writing is my main line of work and I enjoy providing content. But I don't think it can buy me lunch since I only earn less than $2 per day.

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vinaya

vinaya

How much you earn as a freelancer depends on where you freelance and what is your freelance niche. If your niche is writing and you write online, you will not be able to earn much even if you work 12 hours because writing is a poorly paid job. On the other hand, if you are a graphic designer, you will be earning a regular salary by working 9-10 hours. You will earn more if you are a website designer or programmer. Therefore, how many hours you work do not mean much, what matters is what kind of work you do.

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