UlMohdRafi
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- Apr 17, 2020
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good luck,,
$150,000 by Dec 2020. Crushing it on Upwork
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stepdub
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- Dec 25, 2016
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Thank you
Jyeshtha
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- Aug 30, 2012
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That's insane. How many days do you take to complete these many projects, assuming you do it all alone?
stepdub
Supreme Member
- Dec 25, 2016
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I'm not alone now. I have a friend. We work together. Depending on the scope of the project, one day to two weeks.
BlueCatServices
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-May i humble ask you: before start with your journeys, how did you learn the skills and knowledge your now monetizing?
And how long did it take before you start to use it to work ?
And how long did it take before you start to use it to work ?
TeslaFan
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- Mar 6, 2015
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Good luck OP with your journey. I have a question, when you say I got $200 for a lead generation project, what do you do for the $200, do you get them leads manually and send it in a spreadsheet or setup a bing ad to get them leads? What do you do if you don't mind me asking? just wondering. Thanks.
stepdub
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Good question. I started this Upwork journey in December 2019.
Well, to be honest, I'm not really skilled at anything. Many years ago I worked in a company as market research executive. The work involved finding out email addresses of decision makers in large tech companies, and send these leads to the inside sales team. That's all I did, and I worked there for 6 months. That's pretty much what I do now (but with a secret twist).
I do not specialise in any skill. And that's exactly my power. If I was an expert software engineer, or a talented designer, my job title and skill would limit my mindset into believing that this is what I'm excellent at - when you believe that you're good at something, it limits you from pursuing opportunities outside your skills which can make you 100X more money.
I'm malleable and versatile. On upwork, I take on many different roles depending on the opportunity - sometimes I'm a software engineer, sometimes e-commerce consultant, graphic designer, mechanical engineer, accountant, construction consultant, architect etc etc etc. The downside of this is that I'll never get mastery over one skill. the upside is that I'll never go broke. It all comes down to your life situations and personal choices.
I wish you the best in your journey. Take advantage of all opportunities that come your way.
stepdub
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Yes, I get them leads by manual research, using Linkedin and Hunter.io. I have experience with running facebook ads for lead generation, but I've not used it for these Upwork projects yet.
SerbanM
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- Nov 17, 2019
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How much work(in hrs) do you put in a 200$ job from Upwork, on average?
This is just a curiosity of mine, I gave up Upwork recently due to incredibly low prices. I'm a software engineer with ML expertise and basically on 90% of the jobs people are paying 200$ for projects
that involve DAYS of work and in most of them(ML ones) the end result is uncertain, due to the very nature of ML.
It just makes me sick...
P.S: If there is a software engineer around here that has a decent income from working on Upwork(non-web stuff), send me a PM please.
This is just a curiosity of mine, I gave up Upwork recently due to incredibly low prices. I'm a software engineer with ML expertise and basically on 90% of the jobs people are paying 200$ for projects
that involve DAYS of work and in most of them(ML ones) the end result is uncertain, due to the very nature of ML.
It just makes me sick...
P.S: If there is a software engineer around here that has a decent income from working on Upwork(non-web stuff), send me a PM please.
By ML you mean machine learning right? I'm dev as well and you're right the rates seems sick on some projects, did you tried to do it as side job? How's the avg salary of a ML engineer in a regular job actually? Is it hard to find a job on this field? (I'm talking about real job not freelancer platform)
AleksRempleng
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Good luck man
WorkingNow
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- Feb 27, 2018
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grats man on the success! I'm interested in what you are doing for lead gen gigs?
SerbanM
Newbie
- Nov 17, 2019
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Yes, I'm talking about machine learning.
I am actually working as a full time dev. Salary is good, way above average(I live in a Eastern European country). I didn't look for a job in a while but since the amount of data is growing exponentially I'm pretty sure the demand for ML devs will also increase.
Anyway, in Europe it's hard to beat the figure OP is targeting with ML dev jobs so...