Freelancing Startup - oDesk

Are you looking for a way to earn money while relaxing in home?  Are you tired of annoying bosses? Do you want to be your own boss? Now you can earn money by working anywhere anytime. You might have listened to these eye catching lines thousand times and you will find thousands of tutorials on internet about earning money online. All of these eye catching ads are just pointing towards freelancing. Most of us are unaware of this term or know just a little about it. In easy words you can say, it’s a self-employment.

One of my Facebook friends inspired me for freelancing and from that day I am doing it pretty well and earning a handsome amount of money. There’s no rocket science behind freelancing but at the same time we can’t say that it’s a piece of pie. In start you have to spend much time to make your worth in the global market of freelancers; once you are in then it will be much easier and less time taking. The key to success in every field of life is never to lose hope, so is the case with freelancing. You might get disheartened by initial failures but trust me just keep on trying and you’ll get succeeded for sure.

Talking about my own experience I started freelancing about 4 years ago on oDesk and got my first job after 40days at just $0.5/hour. Well I started that job just to have some worth in the market and with the passage of time jobs over $30/hour were awarded to me. Now I have a good profile on oDesk and got jobs much easily as compared to the start. My first job was about graphic designing, to design a logo for e-commerce Company. At that time, I was unaware of the professional software for Graphic designing (Adobe Creative Suite) and I designed the logo in one of the amateur template based logo designing software called AAA logo design. So at the time of delivering the design, client asked me to provide the design in different standard printing formats and editable master file of that design. At that point I realized if we want to be a good freelancer we must learn the professional software’s first then step in to this global freelancing market.

So guys it’s good to do freelancing part time as a secondary source of income and if you think you are good at it you can do it full time as well. Freelancing was not so common in Pakistan and still isn’t that much popular yet, only few Pakistanis are in this field and over 80 percent of these are students. So just step in this field without saying “WHY” just say “WHY NOT”.

You can check out my profile on oDesk.