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Subject:Re: Am I Off the Wall????? From:davec <davec2468 -at- aim -dot- com> To:TechWr-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:12:53 -0700
>The fact that he's still
>communicating with you means that you have some leverage -- and it may
>mean that he's lying about the other bidders. I can't imagine anyone
>who would work for this rate -- you could earn more money working at
>McDonald's, and you'd get better benefits, with less hassle.
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A quick look at odesk.com shows that many of the contractors that the
"buyers" chose and were satisfied with are based in Indoasia (ie,
"Muthukumar J., $10/hour"; "Ousaf Jillan:, $11.11/hour"; "Harsh J.,
$13.34/hour"; ). Although these were not writing bids, rather
programming bids.
And most of the "tech writers" in that category advertise themselves
as everything from "PHP/SQL Developer" to "Virtual Admin Quickbooks,
MS Office".
Dave
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