r/UpworkOfficial

Reach more clients the section, and now "Hiring Now" on the job postings. All these are traps for you: buy more connections so the CEO and workers at the company can have their 6-figure salary, while you as freelancers grid to find a meaningful project or win a shitty project with a bare minimum hourly rate. Don't fall for that trap. Upwork doesn't care about freelancers. If these freelancers' platform really did care about freelancers, then they could set a monopoly by making companies and clients reach out to their own platform rather than these clients going to a consulting company. These platforms are just there to empty your pocket. They are making money on someone who wants to earn money, not on someone who actually has the money.

I am so pissed. I was so excited that I got the opportunity to freelance and build a portfolio. The client reached out to me, our contract was for a week, I was supposed to be paid 9 dollar fee which was actually very less for the project I was doing for him given I needed some work experience and expense urgently.

It was supposed to be given in 3 parts. Just as soon as I provide the second draft on upwork the client ends up cancelling the contract from his side. Now I have no idea what to do because I've given my two parts and still have been paid nothing.

Like the title says, I work in Customer Service and these rates are pretty crazy, they give rates of 20 to 40 dollars an hour, I use the payment verified and 10+ hires filters to avoid scams, I have never used Upwork before, should I pursue these opportunities or is there something I dont know about?