Are providers who Work Weekends more succesful than other who don't?
I for one, ardently support Odesk providers who are willing to work on weekends. In freelancing, where you just dont have the job security, I believe that its pertinent to go the extra mile. In fact, you aren't even going the extra mile for free, you're getting paid for it!
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bradgunderson 1 post
Massive success can never be achieved through doing as everyone else. It only can be by doing as everyone else is not. This includes working weekends. This little tip will increase the amount of jobs granted to a provider from a buyer most certainly.
vjustice 64 posts - United States - Joined Oct 14 2009
Its been my experience that in order to be Successfull at any Career ( Especialy when your first starting out or Self Employed)that there is no such thing as Weekends or holiday's off
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mbelgado 14 posts - Philippines - Joined Sep 17 2008
I think if you're starting off as a freelancer, then working weekends is practically mandatory. However, once you've established yourselves, you may find you can take a day off or two at a time.
Me, personally, I'm not that successful yet, but I do prefer working 5 hours/day Mon-Sun, rather than trying to crap everything into the work week (unless I have to.) That way I get time to myself everyday and I can go to the gym or watch a movie in the middle of the day when everyone's at work! I try to keep a sane schedule though and as much as possible, I don't work after 8pm, unless the job is specifically for other time zones or I have to do an interview.
Anyone else here like to keep regular schedules or try to spread the work over the week?
pcledera 51 posts - Philippines - Joined Feb 19 2009
That is why it's called frelancing, you can choose any which way you want. If you prefer working on a regular schedule you can do that, want to work at night? you want to work beyond 12 hours you can do that too. Want a month long vacation? you can also do that if you saved enough earnings to fund your vacation and have enough left while waiting nay applying for the next project.
You are not to tied to any schedule unless you are on an hourly short term/long term project that requires you to work on specific schedule set by clients/buyers or you have to because of a tight deadline.
I do most if not all my projects on fixed rate basis because of the more flexible working hours/days than hourly (I assume) as long you & the client agree on the time frame for deliverables.
INMHO, the advantage of fixed rate projects is that I can work on multiple assignment if I want to because you can schedule/allocate how much time/effort you want on each project or an off day you want take. The only downside is the uncertainty of being paid unlike the guaranteed hourly rate project.
Of course providers who prefer hourly projects can do multiple projects to but am not sure how they do it, anyone want to share their thoughts?
margaretphillips 221 posts - United States - Joined Feb 18 2007
Why would hourly be any different? I can work 3 hours on one project then switch to another project for another two.I do that all the time. You just log out of one project and into another when you switch so that the proper project is billed. Simple, and guaranteed payment.