How we can get jobs now. It is difficult for you guys?

[#1]

Zero hiring rate for almost a year. I did everything. I received invites from direct clients, but it seems like all doors are closed. Inviting has become like a gambling section on Upwork. They are inviting so many freelancers for a single job. The simple fact is that there is no work anymore. It is just a waste of time and effort.

[#2]

Yep. But 2 years more.

After management chaged jobs here look like this:

This "client" posted job and never returned. And will never close it.

Only such trash or spam\scam. No real jobs at all.

Sometime i think that upwork use abandoned\generated accounts to simulate dummy activity and collect money from FLs. But lets calculate:

Option 1. Client hired me and get job done within 10-20 minutes from posting, happy, will back again. Upwork profit from 5 applied + fee from job = $30

Option 2. Job is fake or upwork deleted my (and others who able to do it) proposal. Upwork profit from 500 applied (with boost) $20x500 = $10000 more.

Now very hard choice: get $30 where alive client reqired vs $10K where no real client needed, no real job needed, just take money and enjoy.

[#3]

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Yep. But 2 years more.

After management chaged jobs here look like this:

This "client" posted job and never returned. And will never close it.

Only such trash or spam\scam. No real jobs at all.

Sometime i think that upwork use abandoned\generated accounts to simulate dummy activity and collect money from FLs. But lets calculate:

Option 1. Client hired me and get job done within 10-20 minutes from posting, happy, will back again. Upwork profit from 5 applied + fee from job = $30

Option 2. Job is fake or upwork deleted my (and others who able to do it) proposal. Upwork profit from 500 applied (with boost) $20x500 = $10000 more.

Now very hard choice: get $30 where alive client reqired vs $10K where no real client needed, no real job needed, just take money and enjoy.

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Bad but not that bad really.

Otherwise, why are we still here?

[#4]

Well Isabel? Upwork is broken - there is less work thats true, but also upwork is moved to earning on freelancers not on clients - ergo they expect you will pay for everything and do not give you even possibility to anwser invites for free nowdays. I treat it as a passive channel - sometimes will get something - sometimes not. But honestly 2022 - 100%, 2023 - 50%, 2024 - it's 10% of what it was before. They probably onboarded tone of cheap freelancers that are competing with price - and I no longer compete with price. 🙂 So clients are expecting cheap - instead of good quality to price ratio - plus there is less clients - plus you have to pay to even have possibility to work with them (before - when system was - first reply to invite - top on the client list - was much more just - now just cheap agencies are boosting replyies deliver bad service but as clients do not know the difference - they stay with them....) It's broken game by design here. I mean only person who is winning is Upwork owner (in casino only casino wins). 😞