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Hello guys, i am looking to get a phone for my mom, I need a rugged phone with big battery life because my mom is an heavy youtube and whatsapp user. Rugged phone because phone always fall from her hand ( her current phone spoilt today).my budget is 55k - 80k any suggestion? Might not be xiaomi, plus i will prefer a phone that the back isn't made of glass.

Rgade:
Yee!
Reduce it? For what?
When I would give an arm and a leg to be like you.
And yeah I do have one distraction.
There's a girl eating up all the space in my head.
Don't drop those numbers bro. eat fruits and drink plenty of water.

na broke man dey code for 8hrs plus jawie I will rather find a way to code lesser time, increase my productivity and income.

Karleb:
It depends.

Is there electricity? Have I eaten? Am I in the right frame of mind? Is there something else important and urgent that needs my attention?

I'd say 4 hrs non stop or 8 hrs with breaks.

This one is very important to me too

Sheriman:
In my area we have no light but I have the opportunity of staying in one filling station near our house due to the cordial relationship I have with manager of the station..
I went indoor to code for 10hours per day
A programmer must ready to code for hours

Nice, but long coding time doesn't equate to better productivity, infact your productivity declines the longer time you spend on your laptop.

Lordsagna:
pls some should help me cos I'm confused.... which aspect of programming can I go? and how lucrative is it in terms of job
1) Software development
2) Data science
3) cybersecurity
pls I'm confused oo

You should go for what you find fun, what you are most interested in.

lanibi:
I stare at my laptop screen for an average of 4 hours per day. I'm sure it'll increase as I continue to learn daily until I get to the level of senior developer.

4-5hrs per day is like the ideal coding time, productivity begins to drop after 5hrs ( so i read)

Rgade:
Can't even go more than 50mins at a go.
The best part of coding for me is when I'm not coding but thinking about some lame shit I previously coded.

do you have any distraction? On average i code 7-8hrs per day. I really want to reduce this as it's affecting my health

spendoon:
Hello everyone!

I made a transfer from upwork to my local bank since the 25th of March but haven't still received it, is there any possibility that the CBN International transfer policy has affected upwork to and my bank has rejected the transfer?

that's over 13 days, check with your bank to see what the problem is

The5DME:
250hrs

It has always been in my mind to ask this question, as a developer how many hours do you code ( or at least spend on your laptop screen) per day or per week?

wane01:
I have already added payoneer to my upwork account, but i havent transferred anything.

I think i saw the global payment service option in Payoneer, i dont know how it works though.
Can we talk on a call or something?

Maybe telegram?

https://removed goes directly to telegram

wane01:
I did identity verification using my international passport. I havent been prompted to verify address neither have i seen the place to do it.\

Yea, bank rates are just sad. I had to convert about over $1200 recently at bank rates and i still get upset when i remember it.

can you or have you created a us bank account in global payment service? If you haven't, try to see if you can create a usa bank account, if you can, add the account details to your upwork and use the created us bank account to receive your upwork funds. I would have said you should just link your payoneer account directly to your upwork acc from your upwork payment settings ( you can still do that) but doing it that way, you won't be able to sell the funds until you received funds through global payment service atleast once.

@wane01 Have you done identity verification on payoneer? ( uploading id card and verifying your address by uploading utility bill?) if you have done that you shouldn't have any problem, once you get the funds in your payoneer account just sell the funds here on nairaland, if you haven't done any verification, it is best you wait, payoneer support is terrible. in the past, i have had my money stuck there for more than a month. I won't advice you withdraw the money directly from upwork to your local bank account, the rates are just too bad, unless the money you are withdrawing isn't much or you really need the money now.

sheelay:
Available

Bro, I need mac M1 16gb ram version

Anyone have a Macbook pro m1 chip 16gb ram deal?

Uchenaija:
Please what of mobile app developers is upwork a good place to go? Or is that saturated too?

upwork is a good place, just apply everything that has been posted on this thread.

qtguru:
I think once a week, we should get on Google Meet and discuss the ideas behind freelance work and so. What do you think ?

very nice idea

Donpre:
Good morning guys, for landing first gigs, would you advise taking on smaller, underpaying jobs to build a profile and JSS score?

smaller gigs sure, underpaying jobs? Not necessarily. The difference between upwork and fiverr is that on upwork most clients ( if they have the money) wants to pay more for who can do the job best. So you don't really need to low ball yourself.

Hardheolar:
Codedboy95 and other guru, this is my dashboard after 2 weeks. I just want to confirm if everything is right since it is manually inouted time.

your $84 will be available for withdraw on Wednesday

DdenslordD:
Answer 1: there are 2 running bars below all toyota and lexus nothing actually touches the floor except it is hilly

Answer 2: fake or bad brake pads, nothing more

Answer 3: open yoir engine, check the engine oil cover the oil type to use is written there. The oil to be used does not depend on the previous owner he might just be a slowpoke to use a cheap oil killing the engine

Answer 4: pit on your car press and hold the AFS off light for 3-5 seconds it should adjust itself and go off if not please give me a feedback

thanks boss, i have changed the oil, also the afs sensor is broken, as for the brakepad, an automech said i can still be using it ( since it was just changed too)

Karleb:
What is your niche?

Hi, can you modify your first comment on this thread and remove the link to my upwork profile, I am deciding not to disclose that again. Thanks

Hardheolar:
Just discovered I opened a payoneer acc in 2019 with a diff name.
Upwork: Abduljelil Akande
Payoneer: Akande Adeola

Can I still link it like that?

not sure, upwork most times don't allow to use bank account name that's different from your upwork name, but you can try

Hardheolar:
Thanks for your response. I have further questions
1. Is the W8BEN foreign status certificate compulsory for Nigerians

2. Which of the payment method is the best

1) Yes, it's compulsory, it's nothing special, just you putting in your name.

2)Sending your $ to domicilary account ( but this takes few days), I actually use Payoneer, funds get in almost immediately and i can sell the funds at almost black market rate here on nairaland

Hardheolar:
Codedboy95, how does Upwork charge clients for manually imputed time? I did 120$ last week but my acc is still showing 0$ as at today. I thought it will be deducted automatically from clients card.

if you are not a top rated freelancer, it will take approximately a week and 3 days to get your first hourly payment from a client. Which means you will be able to withdraw your money next week Wednesday. If you go to report page , you will see that the money is 'in review'. After the first payment you will continue to receive hourly work payment every Wednesday ( work for the previous week)

Crazeworld:
@codedboy95, I'm trying to get a previous client to hire me like you advised. I made him hire me last year for $5 to get my first job.

Should I ask him to post the job so I can apply or he should just hire me directly?

no need to post a job, he can just rehire you directly

@crazeworld getting jobs with 76% jss score might not be a very easy task, what you can do is reach out to clients you have worked with in the past, ask them if they have any job ( even if it's $20 gig), let them rehire you. This will help your jss score, upwork values when a client rehires you.

Crazeworld:
My JSS dropped from 100 to 78% without me having any negative review. What happened?

cc codedboy95

Negative reviews doesn't necessarily mean bad feedback or low rating, when a client ends a job there is a section upwork asks the client if they will recommend you to others, it's on a scale of 1-10, if the client chooses anything less than 8, it might affect your jss score, especially if you don't have a lot reviews (i.e if you haven't worked with a lot of clients that has given you 9/10 or 10/10 in the past), so if you don't have lot of jobs completed with feedback anything less than 8 there will have great impact on your jss score.

What you can always do is be 99% sure that clients are 99% happy with your work. To know if a client is satisfied with your work, when you are done with the client work asks him/her if there are anything else they want you to do or if there are any changes they want you to make, some clients may not be satisfied with what you are done but just proceed to end the contract because they don't want to stress you or complain, where they catch you is the "recommendation page" where they will select 7/10. Other clients ( mostly new clients) don't know that anything lower than 8 on that page might affect your jss. What you can always do is hint this clients before they end the project ( if you are sure you satisfied them), tell them anything less than 9 on that page will affect your score. ( it's against upwork rule to force them), so just know how you will put it to them just to make them aware. Worked for me a lot of times

SegFault:
Video verification ni? O boy I de go back to fiverr oh.

yes, upwork does video verification

obalala:
Hello house glad I stumbled on this thread.. I developed interest in I.T early last year and btw then and now, I have learnt Sql and basics of Powerbi, sometime last month got an MCSA in “developing sql” . The big question is “am I ripe enough to start taking jobs on Upwork “? The big challenge is not having many database files to practice with .
2. Is the data visualization space on Upwork saturated (having too many competition)
3. Should I learn a language I.e python before trying out Upwork..
Would appreciate an answer .. once again really glad I saw this thread

You can learn on the job, it won't be a very easy task but it's possible, i learnt some frameworks on the job, infact I learnt on the job for most of the early jobs i got on upwork, but then you still need to develop yourself to atleast a junior level before taking jobs.

I don't know about data visualizations but you can search upwork and try to see yourself the ratio of people that apply to the jobs.

ahmedsaniadamu:
can I easily get a good job with this skill set: html5,css3,JavaScript, react.js as a front end developer in upwork

Yes you can as a frontend developer

Crazeworld:
Thanks. About the client that gave you a bad review, how did you recover from it since your JSS is 100%

it didn't affect me, i had like 8 good reviews before then, so the one didn't count, also upwork flags client account if it has too many bad reviews, so if you get bad review from that client it won't hurt your jss. I have never dropped from 100% jss since i joined 3 years ago.

tensazangetsu20:
You will get approved but finding work as a mevn stack developer is something else.

If he is really good he just needs to apply to hard jobs, it's the easy jobs that gets a lot of proposal, hard jobs always have just 5 - 10 proposals.