I’ve hit rock bottom on this. I want a basic ~$20+ per hour job where I answer calls, chats, emails and help people with whatever they need from home. I don’t mind working nights, long hours, overtime, holidays, I have basically nothing to do.
I have experience, I have technical skills, customer support skills, I have led 2 teams, switched to data entry, but the last close to 100 applications have led me nowhere. I imagined it would be easy to get into Amazon support or something like that, but dang, I am not getting anywhere. All I see are bait and switch jobs to sell insurance, or travel agency stuff, or benefits or some sort of MLM.
I got into CloudWorkers with the hopes it is some sort of legit cause I am in deep crap.
I have 2 - 3 weeks where I need to figure this one out, and this in the end of the second month looking for work.
Seriously, why is it this hard?
Take this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population
Intersect it with this list: https://www.worlddata.info/average-income.php
And you get
- Philippines - 70m English Speakers - Average Hourly Income $1.44
- India - 228m English Speakers - Average Hourly Income $0.90
- Nigeria - 125m English Speakers - Average Hourly Income $0.66
- Pakistan - 108m English Speakers - Average Hourly Income $0.51
etc, etc
When you want a Entry level online only job, your now competing with the global workforce.
You can get paid more when geography matters (so in person, or for legal reasons), culture matters, language matters (we already narrowed down to English for this example), skills matter (more difficult the skill, higher the remuneration), relationships matter (people know you, so they trust you to work remotely)
What are you offering, able to do, that someone from one of the low cost countries can’t do in order to justify $20/hr? That’s what should be driving your job search.
Those sorts of jobs are filled from low-wage countries.
Ngl reading “basic $20+ per hour job” was kinda funny
$20 a day is 1.5x minimum wage in Brazil. And we aren’t even that poor.
So disheartened by this. But thanks.
Try charging more so people will take you more seriously. That works surprisingly well a lot of the time.
Try here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42017580
Always willing to try.
and they are priced worse, like $300-500 a month
I was offered $21/hr to remote work at some google outsourced company for one of their LLM projects. It was going to be grueling work, full-time, no benefits. It took about 120 applications (two responses) to even get there, and they ghosted me after a second interview. It’s awful out there and I feel for you 100%. Best of luck, genuinely.
Ouch. Hopefully you ended up with something else.
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There isn’t a single company in the country that’s going to pay you $20/hr to do something that entire offices are doing across the world for that same rate. You’re shooting way too high for that wage doing that kind of work
What should I be aiming for? I’m simply going by what the job sites are stating.
Those postings are put up by recrutiers for jobs that don’t exist to pad their rolodex in case they happen to get a overqualified candidate. There aren’t actually any $20/hr entry level remote jobs on the market.
Below min wage. You’re competing with India, not America.
Aim for higher paying jobs. That filters lots of crap. Legit jobs will take more thana few weeks to pay you.
If the timeline is a few weeks, look elsewhere.
Sorry.
I get that, but at some point, I had two months to spare. It’s dwindled down to this.
I don’t know your situation, but some time with a spreadsheet is called for. Figure out how to stretch things.
Clearly, this drifts from your original question.
Already done. Can’t stretch any further than I am. But this is what I figure is character development of some sort.
I got into CloudWorkers with the hopes it is some sort of legit cause I am in deep crap.
https://www.reddit.com/r/freelance/comments/kfx8bt/warning_about_cloudworkers/
I wouldn’t hold your breath.
Also low level, $20 an hour, remote really is asking for a LOT. Can you not work in person, or do you just don’t want to work in person? $20 an hour is reasonable in person, $20 an hour remote isn’t.
Fair enough.
I read the thing about CloudWorkers when I signed up. The math means its 10 bucks an hour and if you work 12 hours a day 7 days a week, then it dings the needle slightly cause its shy of 3K. Either way, it is currently the best deal I have on the table.
Because the sort of people who are in the market for low level jobs aren’t the sort of people who function well in a remote work environment with little oversight.
Bluntly: Low skilled workers will slack off without direct supervision.
