[consulting] oDesk

[William Smith]

I joined up because I was curious about the Drupal test (which is
pretty good, but there are some errors that make you wonder whether it
is a trick question or not).  Looked at the jobs, and the rates suck.


On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Brian Vuyk <brian at brianvuyk.com> wrote:
> It's not a live view, but automatic screenshots are taken every X minutes,
> captured along with the title of the active window, and a photograph taken
> with your webcam, if you have one.
>
> You are all right in probably not worth it. I may just try with a small job
> and see how it goes. Like I've said, I don't like the monitoring system,
> though!
>
> Brian
>
> On 04/07/2009 03:03 PM, Sam Cohen wrote:
>
> Brian,
>
> I'm not familiar with service.  What do you mean clients can watch your
> screen all day?  How exactly does that work?  They have a live view of your
> whole screen for the time that you are billing them?
>
> BTW -- It looks more like $50 is the max that Drupal developers are being
> paid though the site, but there's definitely a lot of competition from the
> $8 an hour folks.
>
> Sam
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:45 PM, David Hazel <dave at hazelconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> unless your willing to work for $8 an hour, I wouldn't bother.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Brian Vuyk <brian at brianvuyk.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> I was thinking about experimenting with oDesk (http://www.odesk.com) to
>>> try and pick up some extra work on top of my regular client contracts. Has
>>> anyone else used it? What was your experience with it?
>>>
>>> I am not 100% sure I like the client watching my screen all day... In my
>>> experience, few clients understand the amount of research that solutions can
>>> require, and I don't want issue with billing for things the clients don't
>>> understand.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Brian
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