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My Experience Working For Upwork

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By Ashia Murphy Petunia Petals
To Start Out
I would like to say that so far everything has been going really well for me on Upwork. I get an invitation for a job, I do the job and then move on. It has been extremely nice and easy to do. Quite frankly, I look forward to getting a job on Upwork. It fast, easy money if you ask me. Who wouldn’t want to do it? Most of the projects that I get so far are for voice recordings. I even got to do some recordings for the app Bixby.

And Then Today Happened.
I got invited to do a job for this guy who wanted 88 articles total to post on a social media account for his company. I agreed to do it even though I didn’t feel as though the pay equaled the work load. He was only offering 70$ for 88 articles which included 22 sub articles in each milestone. He wanted me to create sections for promotions, motivations, humorous, testimonials, trendy news articles, and an info graphic.

I Tried My Best
I did all of my research on the company. The company was a loans and credit building company with a partner affiliation. I have never done anything like this before. So, I asked a bunch of questions to make sure I was getting everything right. That should have been my first red flag. He asked why I wasn’t able to comprehend the task because I was asking so many questions. However, I continued anyways. I did the best that I could on the assignment. I made 2 testimonials, found a bunch of motivational quotes that related to loans and credit building, wrote several promotional offers that the company offered from my research, and even wrote a couple of clever jokes. In the original assignment that I submitted, he told me that my work was fine and that I was on the right track. However, upon submitting the final draft, he hated it all. He told me that none of my work related to anything he was asking for. Don’t even get me started on the news articles I found to relate to the topics as well. He told me that I clearly don’t know what a call to action was even though I copied his examples to the best of my ability. He insulted every bit of my work and then threatened to cancel the contract.

I was Flabbergasted by the man’s remark on my work. I have never had anyone tell me that I was such a failure before in my life. Well at least not the way that he did. He just kept tell me that I wasn’t understanding the concept and that he didn’t understand what I wasn’t getting about his instructions and that I didn’t know how to comprehend what he was telling me over and over and over again.

I just started doing Upwork, so i don’t really understand how the payouts work. Until now. I thought that I was going to be getting the full 70$ for just the one excerpt because that is the original contract that I had written up for him, not realizing that the new contract he made up and I accepted was a totally different contract. I originally asked for a payment for each milestone assuming that it was only one project. NOT a several week thing with 88 excerpts. But that was error on my part for not taking the time out to properly read the new contract and what all I had to do.

I went to the Upwork community to file a dispute because I didn’t feel that it was fair of him to be able to ask for yet another revision of the work after I had submitted several copies of the work I had already done. One of the support members that I spoke with told me that I should just cut my loses because it is a little amount of money. I do not think this is fair. It should not matter about the amount of money. It is the principle of the matter. Now that man has all of these copies of the work that I did and I cannot do anything about it. Nevertheless, the support member that I talked to about the situation had also recommended to me that I should start using res PNG files so that next time I submit to a job they are not able to just copy my work over and do whatever they want with it.

To Conclude,
If you are working for Upwork, make sure that you put yourself first. Make sure that you are covering all ends so that the person hiring you to do a job can’t just take advantage of you and steal all of your work like what just happened to me. It really sucks but now I know better for next time. Be careful with the jobs you take. Another person even recommend to me to just keep submitting the work until the client gets sick of it and cancels the job so that you can then file a dispute to get your money. Whatever it is, it doesn’t matter. KNOW YOUR WORTH
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