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dwgdev | 8 years ago

Hi,

Since you have mentioned freelance, I do actually have an account at Upwork. But I did not complete my full application yet. I just keep thinking, I do not have an actual job, and I have not delivered a project. Summing up these two issues, how possibly people would "believe" me? There are so many high profiles in there.. what are the chances I might be asked to do a job? I am considering to be a freelancer after I get an actual jobs, and have a couple years of experience to proof I can do it.

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a-saleh|8 years ago

In my case, freelance always was through a friend-of-a-friend. And those freelance jobs were nothing major.

For example, looking at your example project, thing that I did as a work for hire seemed to have been simpler.

There was an existing android app showing on 3 screens weather in Dubai or Abudabi (I don't really remember anymore) and I were to write the IOS port.

The reason why the guy chose me, even though I neither had an actual job, nor delivered a project was that he knew me personally for a really long time :-)

So, if I were in your shoes, I would literally be emailing classmates I liked working on projects during school and asking them for work, because that is what I did and it worked out well for me :-)