Grinding advice - freelance has been slow. As it has for a lot of us. I’ve been brainstorming other hustles to make money. Is there a good website to find and pick up good small design gigs? Fiverr? I figure pushing pixels is better than uber, dog walking or other non-related hustles. But open to hearing other’s side hustles.

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Unless your name is Rajesh Patel from Mumbai or Mubumbe Dikembo from Nigeria, you’re not getting a freelance creative gig.

Companies are almost exclusively looking overseas for creative freelancers because they’re dirt cheap. Why pay an American freelancer 10K for a project that someone in India or Nigeria will do for $5 a day? Nevermind the fact that their work is grossly inferior, that’s what ChatGPT and grammarly are for.

Don’t believe me? Look at any creative networking group on LinkedIn. I’m a copywriter, and 99% of writers’ groups consist of members from India or Nigeria, with a few Pakistanis and Vietnamese sprinkled in. It’s not a coincidence.

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