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"Essential Websites for Digital Nomads to Bookmark"

masutaaDAO — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:11:22 +0000

The coronavirus outbreak has undoubtedly accelerated the adoption and acceptance of remote work. Nowadays, remote work and the lifestyle of digital nomads and freelancers are gradually accepted by society and become a new and normal way of life.

This flexible and free way of working, no fixed office, no need for nine to five o'clock working hours, just a computer, a quiet corner, can work anywhere in the world.

The concept of freelancing and working from anywhere has undoubtedly exploded the heated discussion in society, if you also want to become one of the freelancers, then these websites you better focus on!

Today, I will focus on introducing several comprehensive freelance online platforms, you can choose the right one for yourself, give yourself more choice, but also a little more freedom!

01 Masutaa

Official website: https://masutaa.com/

Masutaa is a multi-dimensional mutual assistance form of network community, it hopes to provide consulting and technical services in a free and collaborative way based on a strong Internet talent pool, and create a strong related communication community, through professional consulting capabilities, standardized service processes and high-quality talents to establish a professional and reliable service model.

Masutaa provides transparency into project progress and requirements, giving users the flexibility to choose the right project. At the same time, as an interactive platform, it provides a relaxed and free environment for users to share experiences and exchange ideas.

Recently, the Masutaa Mini Program has been successfully developed and officially launched, becoming an important bridge to connect a large number of users. After years of practice and optimization, Masutaa has developed a unique workflow methodology. In it, each project is equipped with a dedicated project manager, which allows developers to focus more on code writing, greatly improving development efficiency and interface docking efficiency.

02 ZBJ

Website link: https://hangzhou.zbj.com/

If the freelancer platform is a part-time platform or a freelancer platform, the first thing that comes to my mind is definitely the famous ZBJ.com.

The operation strategy of this website has changed from focusing on buyers to now focusing on sellers. Every skill holder can open a shop on it and then operate the store. On the store, you can show your personal abilities and show cases well. For example, if you are a designer, you can put some of your personal works on it, so that skill seekers can see your work more intuitively. And the number of previous collaborations and what others have said about you.

In general, first of all, you have to open your own store, try to dress yourself up as fancy, and then people will find you if they want to serve, and you can see that there are companies and individuals inside. If you are a company, there will be enterprise certification, ranking higher, and then ranking you by comprehensive indicators such as trading volume and reviews.

03 Freeman

Website link: http://www.freemancn.com/

Freelancers is a platform for freelancers and slash youth, whose philosophy is to work without going to work, share skills, share talent. Because Freeman is a platform for full-time remote work (no part-time) for mature skill freelancers, the platform only has an official website, an official account and a Zhihu account.

The fields covered include: copywriting, design, photography, dubbing, video, operations, programming, and it is a comprehensive platform without compromise.

Open this platform and you will find that it is designed very minimalist and self-explanatory. It is also relatively simple and convenient to use, which is more in line with my usage habits, and the content is more and not cluttered.

There are three pieces that can be introduced:

Task library section, after opening, you can find the task that suits you in it.
The Learning Skills section, which has recommended skills improvement courses for freelancers. This is a cooperation with Litchi Micro Class or NetEase Cloud Classroom, both paid and free.
The freelance small insurance sector is a service for freelancers to pay social security and provident fund, freelancers need to pay their own social security can be said to be a market pain point with huge demand, this function can effectively help this group.

Of course, freelancers can also pay social security by themselves, and a video will be released later to talk about the specific operation steps. But if there is a platform that can be more convenient and faster, of course, it is better, but I have looked at this section, it has not been opened for the time being, or look forward to it.

In addition, similar websites in China also have a pinwer, time wealth network, spirit pigeon, night god hunter, but the use experience is mixed, interested friends can try it, experienced friends can also share their own experience and lessons learned.

After reading the domestic one, I will introduce you to several foreign websites, to say freelancer platform, foreign countries are more mature than domestic, if your English is good enough, your skills can be served across borders, please be sure to pay attention to these platforms. Today, I will introduce you to two platforms that I am familiar with and more representative.

04 fiverr

Website: https://www.fiverr.com

Fiverr is a more interesting part-time platform than other websites. The upgrade feature allows freelancers to have a fun and challenging experience at work as if they were upgrading tasks in a game.

When you enter the platform as a newcomer, your pricing will not be too high, the services you can provide are limited, and as the number of orders increases, maintaining a good review for a certain period of time, your level will increase.

As the level increases, your service pricing and categories will also increase, it will be easier to be recommended to the homepage by the platform, and the platform will also provide various rich promotions for excellent freelancers.

On this platform you can publish skills such as image design, image manipulation, video production, copywriting translation, music production, etc., as long as you have a skill!

05 upwork

Website: https://www.joogx.com/tag/75

Upwork is the world's largest, best, and most standardized comprehensive human resources outsourcing service platform. Like Fiverr, Upwork gives any freelancer a stage to use their skills, and as the world's largest freelancer platform, the world's largest demand will naturally be concentrated here.

The biggest advantage of UPOWORK is that freelancers on the platform can take the initiative to inquire about customer needs and orders, and customers choose suitable freelancers through the bidding mechanism, which also increases the initiative of freelancers, rather than waiting for customers to come to the door like other platforms.

At the same time, due to the large number of freelancers on the platform and the relatively fierce competition, this is a challenging platform for those who are confident in their skills and services. In other words, constantly honing your skills will keep freelancers ahead of the competition.

06 Write at the end

Here I would like to say a few points to note when using foreign platforms:

First of all, the gig market abroad is relatively mature!

Simple graphic editing, video editing and other related services will not make freelancers obtain excess income. As a customer, it is possible to find a large number of very high quality and very cheap works on the platform.

So we also have to calm down and don't always think about making big news. However, no excess returns do not mean that there is no way to make money from these simple jobs. For example, when we open Fiverr, we can find some simple cutout services, which are generally not high in price around 5 to 10 knives. And some cutout work does not even need to download PS, some websites can be completed online, the completion time will not exceed 10 minutes, everyone think if you spend ten minutes can earn 5 knives to 10 knives, isn't it also very good.

Through poor information, using less time to complete more small projects is also an idea of making money.

In addition, under the premise of ensuring the quality of the work, everyone must patiently and carefully modify their profile!

Show your most confident work, project experience, and a stunning cover can really make you stand out from the crowd of competitors in this colorful platform.

Finally, service is really important! It's really important!

Foreign people really value this, humanized service no matter how intimate it is, comfortable service will make a large number of unfamiliar customers into your loyal customers, and bring you new unfamiliar customers, what a virtuous circle.

In future articles, I will also explain in detail the service productization and product servitization of freelancers, just dig a big hole here!

Even if there are a large number of freelancers on foreign websites, Chinese people still have great potential and advantages in terms of work efficiency, quality and cost. We all have huge opportunities in the global gig economy. So we need to constantly enrich and equip ourselves to make our skills more proficient.

About the introduction of the freelance comprehensive platform, I will say so much today, see you next time.

Remotework：Redefining a New Way of Life

masutaaDAO — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 08:47:58 +0000

01 why is remote working emerging?

Stop spending your life commuting

Every morning, we set countless alarms to catch the morning subway and bus; There was no time for breakfast, so I bought a random meal on the way and hurried to the subway station and bus stop. We finally squeezed into the car, and the crowded people and mixed smell in the car instantly gave us a headache.

Every now and then we think about this question: Do I have to go to work?

Of course, in order to live, each of us has to work, but why choose a job that commutes so long? Let's face it: no one likes to commute.

On days when you go to work, the alarm goes off earlier and you get home later. Time slips by, patience wears out, maybe your appetite is gone, and you don't bother to eat anything but fast food in plastic boxes. You may give up fitness activities, miss opportunities to put your child to sleep, and be too tired to have a deep conversation with your significant other. On weekdays, after half a day of bothering with the highway, you don't bother to do housework, so you save up all the chores and save them for the weekend.

Assuming that you have to drive to work for 30 minutes a day during the traffic jam, plus 15 minutes to walk to the side of the car and walk into the office, then it takes 1.5 hours to go back and forth every day, and 7.5 hours a week, taking into account holidays and vacations, the time you spend on the road is about 300~400 hours per year. Imagine what you could do if you had 400 extra hours a year. Commuting not only harms your health, relationships, and environment, it can also affect your career.

So we need to work, but work doesn't have to be commuting.

Escape from 996 Blessings

Jack Ma said to cherish our work, and 996 is a symbol that proves that you work hard. But with the development of the Internet, do we still have to sit in the same room and work the same way? At least that's not the case for Ma's company.

Technology has changed the way people work, and work between teams has changed from "synchronous" collaboration to collaboration without synchronization. We don't need to work in the same place anymore, and we don't even need to work at the same time. Once you've adjusted your working methods and expectations, you can coordinate your time and flexible working hours to complete a project together, even if your teammate is abroad.

The beauty of flexible working is that it caters to everyone's needs, whether it's early risers, night owls, or family-oriented employees who need to pick up and drop off their children during the day. Escape from 996 blessings. It may take a little time and practice to get the hang of working out of sync with your team, but it won't be long before you realize that it's really important to get the job done and not stick to commuting time.

Why crowd into big cities

Once upon a time, those who held the engine of capitalism thought, "Let's get a big group of people into a small area and let them live together one by one, so that we can find enough and capable people." ”

Fortunately, the high-density population that benefits the factory is good for many other things. We have libraries, gymnasiums, theaters, restaurants, and all the wonders of modern civilization. But we also had cramped cubicles, small apartments, and buses packed like sardines that took us around.

In exchange for convenience and excitement, we hand over freedom, spectacular countryside views and fresh air.

Fortunately, the advanced technology that makes remote work possible has also made the culture and life more attractive. Think about it and would laugh if you were to describe a city dweller in the '60s: everyone who could see every movie, every book, every photo album ever made, and almost every sporting event broadcast live (the quality and color were clearer and more vivid than ever).

In fact, even if you tell this to someone who lived in the 80s, he will laugh. But we live in this world now. However, there is a difference between taking all these conveniences for granted and drawing rational conclusions from them.

If we now have unfettered access to these cultures and entertainments, regardless of the region in which we live, then why are we stuck in the old dogma?

New age luxury

In the corner of the top floor of a high-rise building, there is a stylish office, the company equips you with a luxury car, followed by a secretary... This old-fashioned luxury is easy to ridicule. But the privileges of today's rich are not much different: Michelin restaurants, traveling around the world, and checking in to Internet celebrity hotels. And what do we get? You're stuck in the office, away from family, friends, and hobbies.

For the long years, what supported you through it was the hope that you would be free when you retired.

But why wait? If you really love skiing, why wait until your hip bones are too old to withstand a fall? If you love surfing, why get stuck in a concrete jungle and not move to the beach? If your dear family all live in a small town, why do you force yourself to stay in the big city?

The luxury of the new age is to get rid of the shackles of "enjoy life later" thinking and do what you love now, parallel to work. Why waste time daydreaming about "how good life will be when I retire"? Drawing a line between work and retirement is actually quite arbitrary. You don't have to follow such rules in your life anymore. You can mix the two together to be fun and rich — to design a better lifestyle that makes work fun, because work isn't the only thing in life.

02 Is remote work the same as you imagined

It doesn't have to be far away

The "far" of remote work doesn't necessarily mean another city, another province, or another country. Working on the other side of the street can also be called remote.

Working on the other side of the street can also be called remote.

Remote work simply means that you don't have to work 9 to 5 and work in the office all day. With the development of the network, the gradual improvement of various communication hardware and software, it is technology that has promoted the transformation of our way of working, so that we can communicate without sitting together, even if we are only on the same floor or in the same community, we can be interconnected in real time to complete this remote work. Far from the distance, but we can shorten the distance through more convenient means and methods, so that our team members are no longer limited by distance.

The results of work are the most fundamental measure

When your boss can't stare at employees all day, the only measure of whether you're working hard is the results. A whole bunch of other trivial standards are gone.

"Did she arrive at 9 o'clock?" Or, "Did she take too many breaks in the day?" Or, "Tell you, every time I pass by his desk, I see him browsing Weibo and scrolling through Taobao!" ”

This kind of evaluation is impossible to talk about at all.

There is only one criterion left, "What did he do today?" Instead of, "What time did they arrive at the office?" Or, "What time do they leave work?" ”

In remote work, you just look at the results. So you don't have to ask employees working remotely, "What did you do today?" Instead, just say, "Show me what you've done today."

As a manager, you can directly assess the quality of your work (you pay them based on this), and everything else that is not important can be ignored. The advantage of this is that everything is clear. When you only focus on the results of your work, you can tell at a glance who is doing your best and who is not.

It can tell you who the good employees are

With remote work, it becomes more difficult to fool people on the outcome of their work. As there are fewer opportunities to pull around in the office, the focus on the work itself increases. In addition, the online display platform used to track the progress of the work and report the progress will record everything you do, leaving conclusive evidence and showing everyone's achievements and time spent to everyone.

As a result, quiet, but productive employees have an advantage, even though they often fail in a traditional office environment.

Remote work lifts the curtain and reveals a fact that has always existed but isn't always acknowledged or seen: a great remote employee is a great employee, it's that simple. When the work is demonstrated, it is easier to see who is really smart (likewise, it is clear who is "smart"). Everyone has a number in their hearts, and they don't even need to say it.

Remote work accelerates the survival of the fittest, getting the wrong people off the bus faster and keeping the right people behind.

03 Conclusion

Telecommuting: Just a new way of life.

In fact, the remote work model varies from enterprise to enterprise, and the overall efficiency varies according to the nature of the enterprise's work; At the same time, it also varies from person to person, some habitual self-disciplined people, the scene of remote work will make him more efficient, but some people who need to be disciplined, once the personnel management is not in place, will let themselves go, resulting in the delay of the agreed task, which directly affects personal output and company efficiency.

Compared with remote work, the traditional centralized office form has its natural advantages: such as the efficiency of face-to-face communication, the ability to quickly mobilize people, super team cohesion and positive working atmosphere. These natural virtues are also the reason and purpose for which they have always existed. Then the development of remote work is not to completely replace the offline centralized work model, but to provide a new way of life for more self-disciplined and efficient people, so that they can enjoy work and life more calmly.

It is believed that the future technological changes will make the hardware equipment and software facilities of remote work more perfect, gradually make up the gap between it and offline centralized office, and create a more realistic working environment.

Spending free time to self-improvement by several websites

masutaaDAO — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 08:03:02 +0000

Many programmer friends at the beginning of contact with Internet technology, it is best to find some learning materials or technical exchange forums, on the one hand, you can improve your level, on the other hand, programming process will inevitably encounter bugs or doubts, their own alone is boring can not solve the problem, help others is a good choice.

Below, I will recommend some very useful forums for your reference.

1. Masutaa Mutual Aid Forum

Official Website:https://masutaa.com/
Forum address: https://bbs.masutaa.com/index

The Masutaa Mutual Aid Community is a free Internet collaborative communication community under YashiSolution.

It aims to build the Masutaa Mutual Aid Community into the world's largest Internet mutual aid community exchange platform and help global IT talents flow across regions. At present, some HR, headhunters and Internet practitioners of large factories have been kindly invited to join the Masutaa mutual aid community. We hope to help some practitioners get the help and information they want in the community

The forum also provides reliable remote projects, providing part-time opportunities for the majority of excellent programmer friends.

2. kanxue Safety Forum

Official Website:https://bbs.kanxue.com/

Kanxue Forum is a software security technology exchange place, providing a technical exchange platform and resources for security technology enthusiasts.

Kanxue attaches great importance to software security, and has become an active community around the theme of software security based on this.

Programmer friends who are concerned about software security and encryption and decryption technology can take a look here.

3. Nightfall Crawler Forum

Official Website:https://bbs.nightteam.cn/

The field of crawlers is popular for its particularities such as wide knowledge, high-level content that is convenient for commercial money, and low-level content that is simple.

However, there is no dedicated technical community in the crawler field like programming languages, network engineering and other fields, but there are many communication groups in the crawler field, but it is difficult for ordinary programmers to obtain high-quality, latest developments from ordinary communication groups, so a crawler forum is a good choice.

At night, there are often technical exchanges about crawlers, and occasionally high-quality codes given by big guys. Newbies look at the night more, and the growth rate will be fast.

Well, these are the 3 forums that this article wants to recommend, and if you are interested, you can go to a wave and increase your knowledge!