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Most employers have used the current situation of high level of unemployment and unavailability of jobs as a reason to exploit jobseekers.

The very first step of this exploitation is the demand for probation. How can you ask someone to work on probation for three months, against a job that pays $60.00 a month? You don’t even get any compensation during such long probation period. Instead, some workers “pay” for probation. Do you imagine looking for a jobs because you are broke and when you have one you are being expected to pay your fare to and fro and at the end of the month get nothing? Nasty!!!

A majority of employers, in order to lure you into accepting their cheap offers, will promise compensation you during the probation period. Since this is just a promise and not an entity in the agreement, you risk getting nothing at all.
What if at the end of the probation period they “decide” you are not the “right” person for the job? Yeah, this may be right. But what if you are actually qualified but the prefer living their entire lives with interns and workers on probation?

Some employers appear to be just but paying their workers at the end of the month is still a problem. Most of the workers won’t quit. They will sit tight hoping against hope. Before your how runs out, you are being owed a three-month salary. Oh, where is the job market heading to?

A friend of mine introduced me to a website for employers and freelancers. After registering on the site and writing a few tests, I checked out the marketplace. The jobs there were very interesting and tempting. Found many jobs on article writing, proofreading, copywriting, blog maintenance etc, but for some reason, I was not as thrilled as I thought I would.

I am a Blogger, so normally I must be interested in such deals, why was I not? For some reason, I prefer being paid to write content for my own blog than to do some freelancing and get a few dollars from it and conceal the deal. My blog is mine, and I will certainly write on it more passionately than anywhere else. Secondly, most of these companies that will ay you to blog form them already have a reputation and an agreement that enables more understanding as opposed to some harsh conditions that will be imposed to you by some individuals of one-man companies.

Averagely, a Blogger who has some pagerank and traffic will be paid higher per post, than a freelance poster is paid per hour but the truth is that the poster may get many hours of work and may end up being paid more. There is a lot of limitation on bloggers since they are required to keep a strict portion of paid to unpaid posts.

However, I won’t give up on Odesk. I do believe if I after filling up my profile and adding some experiences / skills, I may meet up with the requirements of most employers and potentially earn far more than what I earn blogging.