Christie:
You are new here, so don't take things that I say harshly. Just listen and learn.
1) It is not appropriate for you to address Valeria directly as you did. She won't be upset or anything, but this is the oDesk Community Forum. This is not the "Send Email to Valeria" page.
There are other forum moderators who may address your questions. More importantly, this is primarily a forum in which oDesk contractors and clients discuss matters and answer questions for each other.
2) re: "if there is a need for a credit card to channel whatever remuneration..."
You should never need a credit card in order to work. You would need a credit card to PAY somebody. If you want to WORK, you should get paid. ODesk does not require you to have a credit card in order to be paid.
3) re: My mother and father... I will ask them to get one for this purpose."
In your dealings with oDesk, in your profile and in setting up your accounts, etc., you should never mention your mother or father or any other relatives. Do not mention brothers, sisters, cousins, etc. If you mention these people, then oDesk may (correctly) believe that you are combining your account information with the account information of other people. Maybe you do some work, and then have your mom log into your account and do some work. That is strictly forbidden. That will cause the money you earn to be tied up or blocked from being withdrawn, or will cause your oDesk account to be suspended.
If you need to use financial accounts belonging to your mom or dad or anybody else in order to work on oDesk, then you are not ready to work on oDesk.
4) Having just graduated from high school, I do not have a professional title yet, but I am willing to work for the month of May.
It is good that you are willing to work for a month, but you stand a much better chance of earning money if you apply yourself to working in the local economy, not online, and not on oDesk. Based on where you are at right now, you need to spend at least one or two months simply reading oDesk user manuals, reading hundreds of posts and threads in the Community Forum, reading oDesk online help material, just so you can get a better understanding of what oDesk is all about and what you need to do in order to be successful. And you will need one or two months of dedicated work to set up your profile.
I think you are mistaken if you think that oDesk is a place where a recent high school graduate with no oDesk knowledge, no marketable skills, and no work experience can drop by for a month and earn money. That is not going to happen. You are simply going to be preyed upon by scammer clients, who will steal your identify information, trick you into doing all kinds of work for free, and worse, and any money that you or your parents have in any bank accounts of other financial accounts will be stolen because you will provide your personal account information to somebody running a phishing scam.
Member Since: Mar 6, 2014
