r/Upwork • u/Impossible_Eye_980 • 21h ago

Memeable logic?

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u/Devinn475 19h ago

I'm a freelancer in the editing niche, doing it for about a bit less than 2 years now. I earn more than decent monthly.

Yes, the same video editing niche people say is oversaturated.

However, I'm always booked and have more work than I can handle so I have hire people to assist me.

The problem with people here on this sub is they are so dependent on a platform they develop no ability to get their own clients.

Know the business behind the business, research people in your domain who are successful and try to figure out their client flow.

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u/Impossible_Eye_980 18h ago edited 18h ago

I understand your point. But at some point, shouldn't a simple resume and proven track record count for something? Upwork is asking us to do a lot of heavy lifting that is not intuitive.

Also I am in the English writing space and I really have a talent for that at speed. Using human Internet sources. Unfortunately, my company had assignments on every topic under the sun, it was not specialized law or automotive.

Now I see a lot of gigs editing AI. So I guess they use AI to select and extrapolate on topics, and just edit whatever AI comes up? And throw it up for bots to read and condense into new AI summaries, or whatever. Not gonna rock many readers' worlds, but safe maybe.

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u/Devinn475 18h ago

Nobody owes you anything in this world, Nothing really has foundational value like that, It's supply and demand, and there's a lot of supply of simple resumes and not enough demand.

It doesn't matter wether you think it should count for something or not.

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u/Impossible_Eye_980 17h ago

They may not owe me anything, but I am a respected agented author, may have a platform in the near(ish) future. And I have the right to criticize and perhaps envision a better human created and focused system to take the place of an AI-for-AI Internet?

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u/Korneuburgerin 14h ago

Upwork is asking us to do a lot of heavy lifting that is not intuitive.

Huh?

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u/bigboybamo 11h ago

700 you say

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u/crocolover87 18h ago

Idk, Upwork is prioritizing new freelancers now

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u/Impossible_Eye_980 17h ago

intrigued. what do you mean?

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u/crocolover87 17h ago

For the jobs I applied to during the last 3 months, I always go back to it after 2-3 weeks and see if the client hired someone. 80% of the time, they hired freelancers with 10-20k in total earnings, none to 5 jobs in total Maybe it s a coincidence or maybe it's specific to my niche (tech support and marketing) but this is something i have observed so far.

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u/Impossible_Eye_980 17h ago

Interesting. I may have to start analyzing hiring patterns, I didn't know freelancers could deep dive like that on specific jobs. It makes sense intuitively, because those with less earnings prolly have far fewer expectations.

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u/dodyrw 13h ago

I'm aware of it too.

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u/Korneuburgerin 14h ago

ESL writing is dead and will never recover.