VeryWickedMan:
There are many non-tech remote jobs like customer care reps, sales executives, product managers/owners, software testers etc.

Pay is by experience level. $1k-$1.5k for beginners, $2k-$3.5k for mid and $5k+ for experienced roles depending on your field. Bear in mind that you have an 80% chance of being shortchanged if you have a Nigerian supervisor who will slash your pay and give you like 50% or less of these figures.

Hopefully, people like you don’t cross my path. I’d just waste you with three shots.


I supervise some African devs and I slash their salaries by more than 60% sometimes and divert it for myself. $500 is already big salary in Nigeria so any of them that complains gets kicked out at the next appraisal and replaced ASAP with someone who's willing to accept even less.

timagentms:
Pls apart from Fiverr and Upwork, what are the other sites to visit in getting remote job

pocohantas:


I have seen someone say Reddit.
I know someone that got from LinkedIn.

pocohantas:
Thanks for all your responses so far. It would guide many Nairalanders.

lexy2014:


So any reason why you are shortchanging people and slashing their pay?

VeryWickedMan:


You haven't thanked me for my contribution yet.

Jamesz12:
Please how can I reach you?

chiedozie198100:


how can I get the job?

Macdon245295:
. Please can I work for you

jesmond3945:
you mean hand to mouth lol. That's what freelancing is.

pocohantas:


I am afraid your contribution was a wicked one. Stop doing that to your staff.

chatinent:
I go use pidgin. No vex.

True true, time go reach when administrative work go disappear unto say AI go take over. The takeover is already in place.

Tech is the future.

And e dey easy to learn now because na the basics. Soon, it will be expensive because of the demands.

But what I think?
It will always look difficult if we keep calling it technology. Technology is actually that skill everyone has. My dummy thoughts tho.

Did a voice over as an amateur for an Indian couple and they were wanting more. And I am like..with this my yeye voice? Hehe.

Tried virtual assistance..with a faster speed rate of delivering 10k words in a day. Employer asked how I did it. I no tell am. That's my secret...pay me.

Opened a website for a man running a candy shop in 20minutes, designed and functional. Dude was all surprised. First guy charged him $4000 for 3 weeks. I charged $2k for few minutes. You can guess the rest. No bi say I sabi pass the first person, no. But I only learn things with AI these days...it just makes works easier.

For instance, there's a tool to do everything you do in an office for a week in minutes. What's really the need visiting? You snap the paper, it converts to Word. It computes..provides options for charts and many more. Then why do humans suffer?

So I used to draw when I was lil. Like I draw well. But later, I found one tool where you put the original picture and it paints it like hand drawn. What I do, I freelanced with it. You can hardly tell... My secret? Simple tool! Faster delivery!


Everybody has a skill. Try doing the lil graphic design you know...it's money.

Even if na only pidgin you sabi translate to, visit sites and offer to translate their webpages to Nigerian pidgin. They may not pay you at first...yeah, work as an intern. They will add you to translation team. Na CV bi that for next paying jobs.

I'm proud to say I am a contributor and developer at Google. Oya ask me what I did. Na just to do survey and review. Offered to translate too. No bi say I kuma do anything self. But that batch that year, I was enlisted as a contributor. But you needed to see how I boosted with “Developer at Google” during my Fiverr days.

Same with Wikipedia. I helped edited some profile. My name enter team from Nigeria that year. It was in my freelance CV, trust me.

I'm sorry but I like money... genuine money tho.

Just do it write and yes, boost about it in your CV.

Everyone has a skill.

I know of a dude online who says he has no skill..but he sends potatoes as love notes to emotionally depressed folks. Dude is a freaking millionaire.


I believe every skill is technical. You just need to know to apply it to meet the audience.


So many ways to make money..but it requires consistency.


Did I forget? I think the analogue age hasn't really passed so far we remain a developing country.

So cashing out it easy until tomorrow.

I no dey too webinar again...pay me N100k make I put skill into you. Trust me, e no go affect your normal jobs.

pocohantas:


Make I bend if I transition.

I no go even make am. So no need.

jesmond3945:
up work? I thought you are talking of better remote, the one tensa and airlay are doing. Freelancing is good but I don't rate it. You cannot even make a living from it.

folake4u:



Chai. It will be fun watching you struggle with computers. I would laugh ehn.

At least you dey make money from am despite your computer-challenge.

folake4u:


You and your phobia for computers though.

But yeah, the main Tech (programming et al) isn't easy. I tried learning how to code, I knew it wasn't for me. I kuku get Thin patience.

pocohantas:


Thanks for this. Now I understand the question “Are you licensed to work in USA?”

DrLevi:

The damage would be done by then. An entire generation of tech bros and every other profession would suffer for it.

Unlike medicine and law, petroleum etc.. There were gates to the amount of people that those courses accepted. Tech is a free for all

Its sad seeing people with near zero interest in anything tech spend months and years of their lives in it just to because its the next big thing

tensazangetsu20:
There's a lot. You could be a Salesforce admin. You could do marketing automation with tools like Salesforce marketing cloud or pardot. Their certifications are very highly valued. An entry level job in those fields will pay you more than even some senior devs in Nigeria sef and there's so much demand out there's it's so crazy. Research on tech platforms and no code tools there's always an administrative side to it which absolutely no programmer wants to use and touch and get good at those administrative tasks. Get insanely good and extremely dangerous and watch your fortunes change.

AgentGoat:



Which of the information security spealty can you teach someone.

Raalsalghul:


Blame it on the hype and the few established professionals that boast of their bogus salaries meanwhile there are multitudes still unable to get their foot in.

There also needs to be a highlight on tech roles that don't involve programming.

The word "Tech" these days has become synonymous with learning programing.

Iretii0511:


You will excel in tech self. You are one hell of a smart person and tech is not as difficult as you assume.

DrLevi:
WHAT IS OUT THERE FOR NON-TECH PEOPLE?
Striaght answer:
virtual assistant,
writing
voice over,
tech helpdesk,
translation,
3d art,
Animation,
music/beats.

I'm sure I'm missing a lot here which you can find if you visit the home page of any freelance site.

but the fact is all these have always been there. In fact only tech roles just recently opened up since covid and suddenly everyone seems to act like there haven't been people offering services outside programming for years as freelancers right from their homes to foreigners since forever
tech is the trend now and everyone want to be a developers. I blame twitter tech bros, na them cause this thing

The fact is, even the tech roles are not even there. Forget the hype on twitter, you'll understand when you get enough experience to apply for a job. Its hard to get, very hard.


WHAT IS A GOOD REMOTE PAY PER MONTH?
Collect whatever you see. With the exchange rate, you'd still leave a good life. There's no "good" salary and you should remove that thought from your mind. You should try to do good work and build trust, professionalism and reputation instead. You can charge whatever you want when you have years to experience to back your skill.

VeryWickedMan:


Because I'm wicked

pocohantas:


Do you know these roles please?



Me ke? Say person sabi type English no mean say e get sense o. It may not be no difficult, but interest plays a key role. The interest is not there to start sef.

pocohantas:


Make I bend if I transition.

I no go even make am. So no need.

airsaylongcome:


Poco, I don’t know you personally. But if your real life is anything similar to your NL persona, trust me you will excel if you take time to hunt US remote roles. Those US companies thrive on brutally honest employees. Are you brutal? YES. Are you honest? YES.

Example “non-tech” tech roles include Project Management. Take a look at SCRUM. Many core tech folks don’t thrive there. It’s non-techies with people skills that get into those.

airsaylongcome:


I can not applaud you enough. You see that tech support role you mentioned, loads of non-techies can use that as their entry route.

About starting pay, tech support for entry-level competence working for a US company should be about $15/hr. $8-$10 for Europe.

Another key point, anyone looking to get remote should get their Domiciliary accounts sorted ahead. Even if na $0 dey the account, get it sorted ahead. And if possible, open in USD, EUR and GBP simultaneously

Raalsalghul:


Blame it on the hype and the few established professionals that boast of their bogus salaries meanwhile there are multitudes still unable to get their foot in.

There also needs to be a highlight on tech roles that don't involve programming.

The word "Tech" these days has become synonymous with learning programing.

pocohantas:


I know project management. I have also heard of Scrum Master. They are the ones that act as links between the client and the “dev team”. A lot of headache from what I read.

Thanks for the compliment… Where do I do this hunting?

DrLevi:

True, them tech bros just make a ton of noise and funny enough all they do is reused opensource packages and libraries and flaunt $$$$ on twitter feed while the real developers are those who maintain the packages for free and even offer support.

Also I have to blame it on the anywhere-belle-face mentality of the average Nigerian. A large number of them can't think for them, research free stuff on the internet and make a choice that favours their natural skillset.
You see them talking about DSA when they haven't even been able to write a proper for-loop in any programming language. Always about the money before even acquiring the skills that would be paid for.

pocohantas:


Sounds line a plan. I love UI/UX design because it appeals to the part of me that loves beautifying places.