Freelancing on Upwork: Is it worth it?

Bennett Garner
2 min readMay 28, 2017

A lot of writers say bidding for jobs on Upwork is a race to the bottom. If you’re writing on Upwork, you’ll have to charge rock-bottom prices to land contracts.

On the other hand, there are stories of people making six figures writing on Upwork. They’ve gotten reviews and cracked the code for landing the few high-paying clients on the site.

I decided to test Upwork for the next year, and I’m documenting my journey here.

Starting from scratch

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Bennett Garner

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