@Vladimir O wrote:
Tiffany, your position sounds great: "don't look at numbers, just make good work and you will be rich". But you forget that these numbers show to the client how good are you as a freelancer, and what your previous clients think about you.
Nope, I'm not forgetting anything. I'm only telling you what works for me and a great many other freelancers on this platform who have earned tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I'm not arguing with you to be contrary--I'm trying to stop you from cutting your own throat and help you succeed here!
That affects to how they make a decision, when they choice freelancers, which send them proposals. So, to "win" this comparing with other freelancers, you need to be more attractive than others. It can be JSS, price, your message, your feedbacks, your profile, etc. So if you have lower JSS, you need to compensate it with something else, for example, price.
This is the wrongest possible thing you could ever think. If your JSS is low and you offer lower prices to "compensate," what actually happens is that you ratify the clients' belief that you're not very good. Your low rate matches your low scores and combines to tell the client that even you don't think your work is worth very much.
And, your JSS is in greater jeopardy, because bottom-of-the-barrel clients tend to be impossible to please, meaning that your ratings will probably drop if you land bad clients with your low prices.
Of course, it depends on jobs type and quantity of proposals and other factors. Also, this means, that you will get declined more proposals, so you will need to spend more time to find clients.
In the end, it's Upwork, you never know, how good is this freelancer, till you don't start to work with him. Clients are forced to make decision founded on your JSS, cause it's a way to understand, how nice you worked with previous clients.
Many don't, though. Many clients look at star ratings and never pay any attention to JSS. Some have appeared in the forums complaining about how they were "misled" by the freelancer's profile, and there's a JSS of 30% or 50% clearly visible that the client never even noticed while reading the past client reviews.
You can't just say "JSS means nothing, just work".
I can, though, because there are a lot of freelancers here who have had their JSS drop into the 80s, or even 70s, and recovered just fine. Many have even said that being in the 80s did not hurt their chances at all, and they landed just as many jobs as they had in the 90s.
From JSS depend your time to search job, your price, which you will get from jobs. I don't want to waste my time and money.
Besides, there is one more reason to do it: I feel that Upwork treated unfairly with me, and I'd rather wait until justice is restored. It is unpleasant for me that with all my hard work to get a good JSS rating, I was given only 80%. It's rude and ugly. I feel offended.
Okay, that's a different issue. If you don't like Upwork's outlook and you want to leave the platform forever, that makes a lot of sense. However, justice will never be "restored." If you want to stay away long enough for that bad contract to stop impacting your JSS, that date will be two years from the time the contract closed or canceled or whatever terminated it. So, if you want to work here and won't do it until "justice is restored," then good luck to you and we'll see you in early 2020. (When, of course, justice won't have been restored at all, because the low score will have had a significant impact on you that won't be undone by refraining from working here for two years.)
You can tell that Upwork doesn't bother about my opinion, my feelings don't help me to get money, and etc., but you forget, that people sometimes can sacrifice money, time and anything else, what is needed, to restore justice. Our society is based on this principle, and you can't just simply tell, that it is a stupid.
Okay. I think it's a futile gesture, since Upwork won't notice or care that you're gone and your choice will have zero impact on "justice" for you or anyone else, but if that's your choice, it's your business. I was under the impression that you were looking to work and make money here. If that's not something you're interested in, then you're right to disregard everything I've said.
