Any body active in odesk

**indieover** · 01-06-09, 10:22

yes that is what i noticed on this site . more people are giving their bid and no one is taking their bid. looks like more are looking for job than those who are looking for workers . and i have read that some people have been waiting for long time till now have not any job from this site.

**eddielkk** · 01-06-09, 15:28

Originally Posted by indieover

yes that is what i noticed on this site . more people are giving their bid and no one is taking their bid. looks like more are looking for job than those who are looking for workers . and i have read that some people have been waiting for long time till now have not any job from this site.

It is common that normally there are more freelancer than job offerers. Normally job offerers will also like to work with those freelancer that have works with them before, thats why new freelancer may need to wait for a long time to get a job.

**indieover** · 01-06-09, 16:43

yeah it is quite frustrating specially to new ones who will be making their bids. i too just gave up on this one. and there are only few employers who are looking for some easy jobs. mostly are looking for people with expertise on some computer language. i am looking actually into encoding only but data encoding without computer language.

**ssarkar** · 01-06-09, 19:57

Moreover, I also think that as the job offerers are mainly from US, canada or other european countries, they are also looking for the workers from these regions only. Members from other countries will find it difficult to grab a job there.

**indieover** · 03-06-09, 02:14

yes we from other countries will have difficulty to find jobs. and mostly international users look for job and rarely offer job from these international countries. i though t it was good to find job here. it was hard . if not impossible. and the earning is not that great tooo cause of bidding system.

**darksorrow** · 03-06-09, 08:10

Originally Posted by indieover

yes we from other countries will have difficulty to find jobs. and mostly international users look for job and rarely offer job from these international countries. i though t it was good to find job here. it was hard . if not impossible. and the earning is not that great tooo cause of bidding system.

The jobs are very competetive there. So for one job many people competes. That's why it is difficult to get a job. There is no country biasness i guess.

**alec11** · 03-06-09, 08:18

I think most of member there is from US and Europe. and since we're not native English speaker, it's hard for us to get a job and understand fully wha they want to tell to us

**tom** · 03-06-09, 08:40

Originally Posted by alec11

I think most of member there is from US and Europe. and since we're not native English speaker, it's hard for us to get a job and understand fully wha they want to tell to us

It is not true always I think Indian writers are doing good also but why this type of difference i dont know.On which ground they are selecting writers or any bidders god knows.

**danega** · 04-06-09, 08:26

Originally Posted by indieover

yeah it is quite frustrating specially to new ones who will be making their bids. i too just gave up on this one. and there are only few employers who are looking for some easy jobs. mostly are looking for people with expertise on some computer language. i am looking actually into encoding only but data encoding without computer language.

Well if I were to compare odesk from GAF I think it's much easier to get a freelance job at GAF than in odesk. And there are more data entry jobs you will get from GAF. This is based on my experienced.

**darksorrow** · 04-06-09, 15:29

Originally Posted by danega

Well if I were to compare odesk from GAF I think it's much easier to get a freelance job at GAF than in odesk. And there are more data entry jobs you will get from GAF. This is based on my experienced.

Hmmm. I never tried GAF. So i am not sure if this is the case. Well if you are right then i think i will give GAF a try.

**traveler** · 04-06-09, 19:36

Originally Posted by darksorrow

Originally Posted by indieover

yes we from other countries will have difficulty to find jobs. and mostly international users look for job and rarely offer job from these international countries. i though t it was good to find job here. it was hard . if not impossible. and the earning is not that great tooo cause of bidding system.

The jobs are very competetive there. So for one job many people competes. That's why it is difficult to get a job. There is no country biasness i guess.

your right! jobs are very competitive, hard to get a job,..that's why i already disregard my account there, cause nowadays i don't have time to update or check for any news and no time to accept the job if ever i have offer..

**darksorrow** · 05-06-09, 07:47

Originally Posted by traveler

your right! jobs are very competitive, hard to get a job,..that's why i already disregard my account there, cause nowadays i don't have time to update or check for any news and no time to accept the job if ever i have offer..

Hmmmm. I think you are earning more than you can earn on oDsek. That's really good. Can you please share some of your earning techniques.