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?

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    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.

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      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.