Hey everyone, I have a semi-related question (since it's briefly mentioned in the article): is it possible to make a decent salary exclusively by doing freelance work through vWorker (rentacoder) and the likes?
I found it not too troublesome to earn between $2,000 and $3,000 a month. By Polish standards (even after tax) that's really not bad, but I realise it might not be that great in, say, London or New York.
I have never tried getting work off of vWorker or similar sites, but today I looked through vWorker for the first time in a while and it still seems to be what it was: a bunch of people offering hardly anything for complex projects. I'd imagine you would need to go through hundreds of postings in order to find someone who is offering a fair amount of money for a decent sized project.
That said, if you dedicate all of your time to doing that (sifting through all of the bad postings on multiple freelance work sites to find the gems) and build a reputation, it seems possible to make some good money.