I know, I know, it's the same old rant but it is so infuriating. Now, in my hunt to find more illustration opportunities I come across freelance type websites, places, as I mentioned in my last post, where aspiring artists beat each other around the head for the chance to prostrate and debase themselves for a tight fisted audience. Or something like that...
Well, it gets better. I forgot to mention the other delightful freelance sites, wherein, not only must you scrum with hundreds of other starving artists in these Dutch auctions of indignity, but you have to PAY the website for the privilege of having the opportunity to undersell yourself!!
I'm not kidding. Some of the websites charge you to join before you're even allowed to place a bid on a potential job, other sites allow you to place a couple of bids a month but then charge you if you want to go over your tiny limit, on top of all that, these sites usually take a tasty cut out of everything you manage to earn.
So if you pay to join these sites, then fight with hundreds of other artists trying to underbid each other, then actually manage to get selected by a client for the job - you then lose a percentage of your earnings.
Might as well go work in a fast food restaurant...
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