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Originally Posted by LektorAJ
Have a degree in the first. I like computers and writing software but it sucks on a full time basis. Remotely most good work is through existing contacts otherwise you are competing on price with Indians.
Don't have a degree in the second but tons of flexible work available. Pay is by the word. You get faster with experience (you less often need to stop to do detective work on a word) so the hourly goes up. My second language of Slovak (learned as an adult) is important enough that its ranked circa no. 30 in terms of number of wikipedia pages but even that has few English/American people who can read it, understand it and write good English that means the same thing as the original Slovak text (you normally only translate into your own language and while native speakers of the other language may sometimes try to translate the other way "against the wind", they can't compete with you in terms of the quality of the resulting text). Translating is also good alongside poker as you can just do it the times of the week/day when the games aren't good.
So the moral is:
1 Turn off the computer, go abroad,
2 Chase local girls till you find one to teach you her language on a live in basis,
3 Make kids to cover the Darwinian success criteria.
4 Translate
5 Play poker on the side
6 Profit.
That's pretty much what I did and I'd recommend it to others.
There are masses of remote worker freelancers in multiple fields and many online platforms where their services are sold. I've often outsourced to freelancers.
Main service categories are: Admin, Business Support, Design, Marketing & PR, Social Media, Software/Web Development, Translation, Video/Photo/Audio/Animation, and writing.
Freelancer competition
on price is with India/Pakistan/Bangladesh, however for the buyer it's sometimes a false economy, not through standard of work but through communication/language problems and the time difference.
So European/North American freelancers get their fair share of the pie.
I see this style of working/hiring growing fast and becoming a significant chunk of the work force.
Last edited by SageDonkey; 12-06-2017 at 08:29 PM.