What was it, write "banana" or "purple cow"?

[m_terrazas]

I think it's the strangest thing I've seen about "write XXXX at the beginning of your proposal, otherwise it will not be considered "

1 To showcase your attention to detail, competency, initiative, consideration, playfulness and creativity read below...
2 Translate the following:  01001001 00100111 01101101 00100000 01110100 01100101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01110011 01100001 01110110 01110110 01111001
3 Use the resulting translated word at the beginning of your pitch or cover letter to be considered eligible. I won't have time to read anyone's pitch without this word in the beginning so prove yourself eligible. You've got what it takes!  😉

And since we are, does anyone know how to translate it? 🙂

[jr-translation]

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@Maria T wrote:

I think it's the strangest thing I've seen about "write XXXX at the beginning of your proposal, otherwise it will not be considered "

1 To showcase your attention to detail, competency, initiative, consideration, playfulness and creativity read below...
2 Translate the following:  01001001 00100111 01101101 00100000 01110100 01100101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01110011 01100001 01110110 01110110 01111001
3 Use the resulting translated word at the beginning of your pitch or cover letter to be considered eligible. I won't have time to read anyone's pitch without this word in the beginning so prove yourself eligible. You've got what it takes!  😉

And since we are, does anyone know how to translate it? 🙂

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 I'm tech savvy

I would reply with the following:

01000110 01100101 01100101 01101100 00100000 01100110 01110010 01100101 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100011 01101000 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01101001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01110101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01101010 01100101 01100011 01110100 00100000 01100110 01110101 01110010 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00101110

[m_terrazas]

You have been fast!

[renatoss]

I found it as  ''I'm tech savvy''

or with '' F331 fr33 70 r34ch 0u7 1f y0u w4n7 70 d15cu55 y0ur pr0j3c7 fur7her ''

[renatoss]

I've seen asking ... how much is 1+1 ? and then at some point they ask you to reply with 3 or some random number 

[lysis10]

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@Maria T wrote:

I think it's the strangest thing I've seen about "write XXXX at the beginning of your proposal, otherwise it will not be considered "

1 To showcase your attention to detail, competency, initiative, consideration, playfulness and creativity read below...
2 Translate the following:  01001001 00100111 01101101 00100000 01110100 01100101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01110011 01100001 01110110 01110110 01111001
3 Use the resulting translated word at the beginning of your pitch or cover letter to be considered eligible. I won't have time to read anyone's pitch without this word in the beginning so prove yourself eligible. You've got what it takes!  😉

And since we are, does anyone know how to translate it? 🙂

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 for real, you can have a lot of fun with these people if this is an invite. there are binary to hex coverters online. Translate it to hex and ask "am i doinitrite????" Hilarity will ensue if they respond. Play dumb. Tell them that they said to translate so you did and now you're just so confused what's wrong????  The concern troll is very effective for LOLs on upwork and it's not rude or offensive so they just get mad and it cracks me up. If you're lucky enough for them to fall for it, they'll tell you it should have been translated to letters (hopefully they say this) and you can then switch to pedantic and tell them that what you did is letters, so you still don't understand what's wrong.

oh man so much potential with this one!

[m_terrazas]

Hi Jennifer,
How long!

If you want, I'll give it to you! I do not intend to send him a proposal.
There are some who do not give explanations, and others who write such an epistle that they throw back.

I know you would have a great time with him 🙂

[lysis10]

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@Maria T wrote:

Hi Jennifer,
How long!

If you want, I'll give it to you! I do not intend to send him a proposal.
There are some who do not give explanations, and others who write such an epistle that they throw back.

I know you would have a great time with him 🙂

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 Send it to mee! 😄 😄 😄

I said this as an LOL but I give you 90% chance of actually getting an offer with that snarky reply. You'd be surprised at people's responses to this type of stuff. Take everything those alleged 6-figure freelance courses offer and do the opposite.

I don't know if anyone remembers that psychologist guy who used to post these long-winded posts that were actually kinda clever and interesting to read. He got Janeaned too and got his account back and posted in here. He posted a rant with a job link that I was able to see before it was yanked. I used 2 connects to tell the guy that he's an idiot (well, in different words of course) and the guy got back to me months later and offered me the job. I lol'd at that one but was straight with the guy and said that his job post was all kinds of red flags and I just don't want to take on a jackhole tbh.

I have a diva client now, and while the money is beautiful and I love what I'm doing, I can only handle 1 diva client at a time. They grind you down, which is why I'm here right now cuz oy vey yesterday was a very bad day. That's another thing those alleged 6-figure freelancer course pushers don't tell you: it's not all roses and rainbows when you're *truly* a 6-figure freelancer. Not the fake kind you see. The real 6-figure freelancers get into arguments in slack and need to walk away from the computer and take a breather. And before any blowhard wants to say that they wouldn't put up with it, yes you would for the money that gets thrown around.

[m_terrazas]

Surely you would get it 
My English is not so good as to be "sarcastic", a pity.

Are you talking about who I think you're talking about?

That's another thing those alleged 6-figure freelancer course pushers don't tell you

[renata101]

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@Maria T wrote:

Surely you would get it 
My English is not so good as to be "sarcastic", a pity.

Are you talking about who I think you're talking about?

That's another thing those alleged 6-figure freelancer course pushers don't tell you

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 I think we are missing a wonderful opportunity on the forum to add to freelancer's skills. What we could really use on UW is a sarcasm course for advanced English learners. The Lady with the Pin Hair as she is known (possibly due to a spelling error) is a great master, not to mention a Guru.

I think for Advanced English Sarcasm Lesson 1, you should respond in binary as she suggests. Here's a tool to translate the message to text (although someone already did this, but you'll need it if you get a response):
https://codebeautify.org/binary-to-text

To send a response, you can use this:
https://codebeautify.org/text-to-binary

[martina_plaschka]

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@Renata S wrote:

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@Maria T wrote:

Surely you would get it 
My English is not so good as to be "sarcastic", a pity.

Are you talking about who I think you're talking about?

That's another thing those alleged 6-figure freelancer course pushers don't tell you

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 I think we are missing a wonderful opportunity on the forum to add to freelancer's skills. What we could really use on UW is a sarcasm course for advanced English learners. The Lady with the Pin Hair as she is known (possibly due to a spelling error) is a great master, not to mention a Guru.

I think for Advanced English Sarcasm Lesson 1, you should respond in binary as she suggests. Here's a tool to translate the message to text (although someone already did this, but you'll need it if you get a response):
https://codebeautify.org/binary-to-text

To send a response, you can use this:
https://codebeautify.org/text-to-binary

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 They really should have a sarcasm test, I could do that in 4 minutes...

[lysis10]

Oh why yes, I'm referring to the alleged 6-figure Elancer turned Upworker turned "screw it I'm tired of changing my title so I'll be the 6-figure freelancer" course pusherer.

and I LOL'd at the "pin hair lady" thread xD

it's purple now though. I finally found a colorist in this one horse town an hour away oy vey. I want to change my profile pic but that would involve makeup and blah I'm too lazy right now to put on my second face.

And to stay OT: people are strange. That's what Upwork has taught me. Been tryina stay out of the open marketplace these days because it seems those people just want to argue about rates and get all ragey and I prefer all roses and rainbows and you know I'm totally a sweet delicate little flower. But invites are a whole different ballgame. They invite my snark especially when they are all "but I have all this work for you at a lower rate and you'll make the moneys you see just write this trash thing for $20 and 10 of those will add up!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!" and I want so badly to verbally assault them into a corner where they cry and feel the need to shower off the shame but I"m on Upwork so I'm neutered. 

[m_terrazas]

Ehh!
I want to see the "Purple Lady"
Do not be lazy 🙂

[reinierb]

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@Jennifer M wrote:

Oh why yes, I'm referring to the alleged 6-figure Elancer turned Upworker turned "screw it I'm tired of changing my title so I'll be the 6-figure freelancer" course pusherer.

and I LOL'd at the "pin hair lady" thread xD

it's purple now though. I finally found a colorist in this one horse town an hour away oy vey. I want to change my profile pic but that would involve makeup and blah I'm too lazy right now to put on my second face.

And to stay OT: people are strange. That's what Upwork has taught me. Been tryina stay out of the open marketplace these days because it seems those people just want to argue about rates and get all ragey and I prefer all roses and rainbows and you know I'm totally a sweet delicate little flower. But invites are a whole different ballgame. They invite my snark especially when they are all "but I have all this work for you at a lower rate and you'll make the moneys you see just write this trash thing for $20 and 10 of those will add up!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!" and I want so badly to verbally assault them into a corner where they cry and feel the need to shower off the shame but I"m on Upwork so I'm neutered. 

I got kicked off another site for doing just that last week. The "client" invited me to "rewrite" some technical automotive diagnostic articles, only it turned out that he lifted these articles from a site that I am a major contributor for. Worse though, he had lifted these articles from pages that bear my name and picture, thus identifying me as the author. 

The verbal assault I delivered was hugely satisfying. 

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[luce-neidert]

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@Jennifer M wrote:

Oh why yes, I'm referring to the alleged 6-figure Elancer turned Upworker turned "screw it I'm tired of changing my title so I'll be the 6-figure freelancer" course pusherer.

and I LOL'd at the "pin hair lady" thread xD

it's purple now though. I finally found a colorist in this one horse town an hour away oy vey. I want to change my profile pic but that would involve makeup and blah I'm too lazy right now to put on my second face.

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Incredible! Our Pink Jennifer is back! Jennifer, please let us know when you start using a picture with you purple hair, otherwise we'll think you've disappeared again.

[jmlaidlaw]

@Reinier --

Oh, to have been the proverbial fly on the wall when you gave that client arrogant, but essentially clueless, scumbag what was coming!!!

[reinierb]

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@Janean L wrote:

@Reinier --

Oh, to have been the proverbial fly on the wall when you gave that client arrogant, but essentially clueless, scumbag what was coming!!!

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@ @Janean, while I thoroughly enjoyed heaping well deserved abuse on this "client", my usual response to this type of situation has now reduced me to membership of only one site- Upwork. Let us hope I never run into such a "client" here...