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		oneiroscopist on Dec 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: is it possible to earn a living US wage at... Why won't you deal with it? Bad experience? On the customer or developer side?

patio11 on Dec 27, 2011 [–]

Short version: it adds nothing I need, positioning myself against the competition there would be certifiably insane, and the type of clients I most successfully work with would avoid me like the plague if I proposed working through oDesk.

oneiroscopist on Dec 27, 2011 | [–]

Thanks, Patio. I gather you were on the workforce side, correct?

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