Should Freelancers Use Upwork?

Another episode from our Q&A series, where I take on Q&A about business and freelancing from authors in our author pool.

If you're going to moonlight or go into business for yourself freelancing, should you use Upwork or sites like it? I think there are certain specific situations make this a good fit for you, but generally and on a long timeline, I'd avoid sites like this.

 

Picks

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• Jonathan Stark, The One and Only
• A guide to dealing with CSS image effects
• The fact that Tricentis does test automation for Salesforce
• This post about building Slack workflows, which is great for minimizing the time I have to spend in Slack