duettitly Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 Hello!I'm new here. I've been browsing tons of forums for an idea of what to do. I was laid off from my job about 3 month ago. I've been looking for a job since then, but did not even get a single interview. I worked as a web designer for a publishing company for the last 5 years. Looks like www.besttechie.net is an active forum with active members and may be someone has some experience working as a freelance web designer. May be "World and Politics" category is not the most appropriate for this question, but I want to try anyways to get some opinions before I go ahead with my life. I'm wondering if it is possible in the current economy to find work for a freelance web designer and make enough to pay for rent and groceries. I was able to find a small project on craigslist and I developed a website for a company. It was a small project and took me only a week to complete. I got paid $800 for 1 week of work which is not bad. Please people give me some ideas. I have 2 kids and my wife is out of work as well. Thank you in advance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bozodog Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 Nice job on that site. I could recommend loading up some samples of your work and start knocking on doors. Hit some of the smaller businesses with simple, budget sites. Find a way to help them through the domain purchase and server space... I wish you and your family the very best. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pete_C Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 AH, what was that site they featured on the news.It was originally founded by some MIT students but has expanded beyond the Boston area.It lets independents bid on doing work like web design , cad, software work etc that companies and individuals post that they need done.I think it had job in the urlYes jobaphileshttp://jobaphiles.com/From the new jobs listingJobaphiles is looking for an ASP.NET developerWeb site designWeb site designBidding ends in 58 days, 9 hours, 47 minutes, 12 secondsThere is one bid of $750.00.Most Employer is Willing to Pay: $850.00.Deadline is On or before 2009-05-01http://jobaphiles.com/BidRequest.aspx?guid...de35&id=752Since they have a local office I often recommend Babich and associates http://www.babich.com/ to those in my area.They have Locations: Dallas | Ft. Worth | Denver | Houston | CaliforniaFor example they have 662 job listings in Dallashttp://www.babich.com/jobsearch_results/?oOffice=1You can also search by job title like web designhttp://www.babich.com/job_detail/?JobCode=J000004487is an example.There are a a few sites like computerjobshttp://www.computerjobs.com/homepage.aspxNo guaranties but this google search may have resultshttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=B...amp;btnG=Search Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sultan_emerr Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 http://www.komando.com/coolsites = http://workstir.com/post/all/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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