u/LA2124

Been preparing for it mentally for about 3 yrs when OG owners made his exit and sons didn’t have the leadership qualities needed to run a business. Started doing side work while I continued to make the drive into a job that offered no work to do over 50% of the time. So I’ve got that sporadic type of work to keep me entertained but certainly can’t live off it.

They say if work comes in I’d get a call back but I’d be very surprised if any work does roll in. It’s been so slow for so long the horizon is getting pretty dim.

Lots of random projects that need done around the house. After a few weeks of chillaxing it’ll be time to send out some résumés. At half a century age wise this will be interesting attempt to get back into the work force as a newb. Wondering if I can pull of a career direction tweak and a raise since I haven’t gotten a raise in about 4 years. And all the ones before that were always well below the inflation rate.

Anyone looking for that hard to find employee that everyone says is impossible to find cause they are already working somewhere? HMU. 😉

So I recently decided to raise my gig prices to filter out the people looking to get anything for $10 in the product design, reverse engineering area. Don't think I ever did a project under $25 anyway. Not that the gig prices mean anything since every project is a new adventure in this line of work. A few days after the updates.... I get my first legit inquiry for a project and after sending the cost, they want to know why so much. The inquiry was polite and well worded and I'm not offended by them asking at all, but feel like I need to explain why the fee is what it is in general terms. One of the major factors is frankly the 20% fees charged by the platform. They are what they are but I get new buyers all the time that don't realize this is such a large part of the cost of doing business on fiverr. Would you explain this somehow to new clients that want to know? If so, how do you do it without flagging the algo that your the worst person in the world for pointing that out? and getting dinged on the success score for less than effective communication? Or would you just ignore the request for cost justification altogether?