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The company hopes it can refresh the full-time job search model and bring more clients and workers to the platform.

Upwork is revamping its business model to support full-time hiring

Upwork revamping business model- Shift from freelancing to fulltime hiring

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Upwork revamping business model- Shift from freelancing to fulltime hiring- Grapevine

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Hi folks,

I have freelanced on upwork earlier and maximum reached $20/hour in development gigs but got burned out by constant pressure of rebidding once the current project gets over. The profile is still 5 star rated but getting full time job through these freelancing platform require lots of marketing and bidding and it’s difficult with day job. However recently I have seem trend where there are some genuine folks such as harkirat who are upping the game by earning around 5 crore annually through posh remote jobs. Has anyone of you tried pursuing that route by reaching out to founders of early stage startups on twitter/linked in or used freelancing portals such as upwork to get full time gigs which pays more than $100k remotely. If yes please share some guidance. 

My stack: Mern /java full stack dev exp:7 years 

Video ref: https://youtu.be/8gbLg8MCWqg?si=OBAsoEvJPG3e1mSH

Earning 5crore plus on remote jobs

step 1) stop believing influencers.. they always sell success stories of top 5%

Cloud Architect

29M , 7 yoe. Have a full time job plus running my own freelancing gig servicing multiple clients across the world

Not a techie. Earning 1.75cr a year AMA

Consultant

And it starts!

What's stopping Indian startups to hire in this way, Will we see more such in 2024 ?
Their working remotely process - https://t.co/epCl6tJtmU

One of good hiring pitch I saw recently?

Associate Product Manager

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Return to office is ‘dead,’

RTO was mostly about pumping up real estate prices :)

Actuarial Associate

Coders on grapevine, need your advice. I want to start part time job or freelancing to earn extra money. I have 7 yoe in JavaScript (reactjs, react native). 
Where should i start my search?
What should I expect in terms of client expectations?

If any of you are doing freelancing, I would love to hear about your journey.

Freelancing

Software Engineer

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Planned To Start Freelancing

Marketing Manager

I have 8 years of software development experience and earning a decent salary, but contemplating to slowly transition towards self employment.

My skills are mostly in backend engineering- building web APIs and distributed cloud services. Are there opportunities available for such a skillset? I have observed it’s easier for frontend engineers and UI/UX designers to get freelancing opportunities as compared to backend engineers.

Anyone on this forum with similar skillset has been successful in getting good quality freelance work and make good money? Can you share your journey?

Anyone successfully transitioned to freelancing?

Both India and abroad acceptable

Bribe: If I get job in your suggested company, samosa treat on me! 😉

Please suggest genuine fully remote companies & platforms to find the same

Senior Software Engineer

how many if you are doing a full time job along with freelance gigs 
how do you manage to take out time for freelancing

Job + freelancing

Product Manager

Multiple roles are open at Highlevel in Engineering, Product Management, Program, QA and Design. Pay is really good and fully remote role with good WFH setup.

Referral link: https://jobs.lever.co/gohighlevel?lever-via=LsvtpsB3-8&lever-social=job_site

Hiring Alert- Full Remote at HighLevel

Product Owner

This is absolutely meme material!! They declared that 75% of employees will work from home by 2025, and before even 2025, they reverted that and now claiming everyone to come to office all 5 days!! I mean not even Hybrid, but all 5 days!! News mentioning recent report of asking employees to come all 5 days- 

https://m.economictimes.com/tech/information-tech/tcs-asks-employees-to-return-to-office-five-days-a-week-may-end-work-from-home-from-october/articleshow/104049381.cms

TCS- From 75% to 0%, that was pretty fast!

Can't fault Milind Lakkad.  He has a new boss. 
  
 New boss, new tune.

Sales Manager

I don’t understand what the point really was 

- companies with a bad product are still struggling 
- companies with a good product are still growing
- rent in Bangalore, Mumbai is still sky high 
- salaries are still high, people are still asking for more 
- food is expensive as ever 
- stock prices of companies that fired people never really went up 

Someone make any sense or any of this?

Layoffs were a total failure at changing anything

Analyst

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Also, how do you start?

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Customer Success

Hey folks,
I want to dip my hand in freelancing.
My job is quite laid back and i have a lot of free time.

I have been grinding leetcode in my free time but I'm bored of it. So, I decided why not use this to expand my real working knowledge and earn some side income too.

Any experienced freelance person, please guide on how to start and where to. I know it takes a serious hustle to break the first client. But starting itself seems daunting to me.

Thanks for your time

Start freelancing

Been working for top product companies for 6+ years as a software developer and currently product manager.
Motivation earlier used to be learning etc but right now its mostly money where i am currently at.
There is no skill growth, just applying what i already know, days are busy which doesnt give me any time for other things ( upskilling, side projects)
Explored the market and have found freelancing role that lets me 
1. work remotely
2.Gives me opportunity to work on latest tech stack ( frustrated with not being able to code in my current job)
3. Lets me control my time as fixed hours are billed and you can commit hours ( might work only 20-30 hours a week and reclaim the rest)

Thinking of transitioning but not sure as we are fed to work in good product companies and look at service/freelancing in bad light.
I feel like most of what i needed to learn via my job in product management, i have learnt already and feel like not being able to code as much is making me outdated as a builder.

Tldr: good job that pays well but skills are not growing, another option is to turn to freelancing, earn 70% of what i currently earn but helps me upskill, gain control of my time and maybe experiment with side projects in remaining time

Product company to freelancing

So I've been working as Freelancer and working on a main job for last 4-5 months and Iin the given time I'v really enjoyed building something and creating something from scratch, but from last few days it seems like I'm not really enjoying what I'm doing or more like I'm pretty tired of doing things simultaneously, so thing is I was more of a night owl but recently from last couple of weeks I've been trying to wake up early and then start my work but doing so I find myself pretty involved in unproductive things and not able to contribute much, is it time management? burnout? idk,now the motivation to build something is pretty inconsistent, tho I have my main job as WFH but still I'm struggling with time management.

Working on a main job and freelancing

I have been searching for job for almost 4 months now, due to layoff. The job market is pretty tough these days so I thought of trying out freelancer path. Even after having a really solid resume and work experience, it’s difficult to get freelancing jobs. I am exploring upwork and freelancer platform but it’s of no use till now.
Do you have any such freelance platform recommendations (which works) or someone you can connect me to ?

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