=d> =d> [quote=TUPAC][quote=AmHere]Kenyans have been ranked 3rd worldwide in rate of earnings increase in 2011.

I also believe the number 1 contractor in Africa by 2011 Elance earnings is from Kenya with US$75,000+

https://www.elance.com/q/online-employment-review-2011[/quote]
@amhere are you on elance? imagine am trying to verify my phone to no avail. must i speak american tweng for their machine to recognize me?[/quote]
=d> =d> =d> =d> finally i managed to have number verified.called customer care and they did it. I think they intentionally make it impossible to verify through the voice prompts so that one can make the effort to call them just to ensure its a human being verifying the number!!!!

[quote=Seq Lu]I had the same nasty experience with elance regarding phone verification last year December.. I looked at odesk and never regretted. If you are a serious software developer (in this case Java developers .., I have seen PHP guys contratced for less than 5$/hr) I encourage you to join odesk . .. I started with part-time doing 10-20 hrs a week hourly rates of 10$/hr. Now I am putting over 30hrs a week besides my 8-5job.. Their payment system is ok, wire transfer takes kindu 3 days.. and voila, the dollars in your local account in local currency ..

This is something getting bigger n Just like what AmHere said, go there try It out & believe what u want to[/quote]
I also forgot elance. went to odesk. i have had writing jobs since january. am happy with odesk and the dollars that keep streaming......

[quote=Seq Lu][quote=TUPAC][quote=Seq Lu]I had the same nasty experience with elance regarding phone verification last year December.. I looked at odesk and never regretted. If you are a serious software developer (in this case Java developers .., I have seen PHP guys contratced for less than 5$/hr) I encourage you to join odesk . .. I started with part-time doing 10-20 hrs a week hourly rates of 10$/hr. Now I am putting over 30hrs a week besides my 8-5job.. Their payment system is ok, wire transfer takes kindu 3 days.. and voila, the dollars in your local account in local currency ..

This is something getting bigger n Just like what AmHere said, go there try It out & believe what u want to[/quote]
I also forgot elance. went to odesk. i have had writing jobs since january. am happy with odesk and the dollars that keep streaming...... [/quote]

that is fantastic Tupac, I want to hear more/other wazuan experiences who have made money online.

By the way, these contracts are like any other job. Sometimes, on the unlikely event, they are suspended say when client doesn't have enough fund to pay odesk so that the platform can inturn pay you.. but ultimately thy always unsuspend when the client cash flow is ok.

One can make money there as an Investor, read client, where you contract people to develop stuff for your.. Or you are just contracted to do stuff.

I have seen local corporates who do not trust local developers, they ship jobs to US and the outsiders end up hiring us to develop the software on odesk, and of course the local corporates looses millions since they would have hired directly from here .. talk of high level brain drain[/quote]
thats right Lu. whatever the case. it feels nice working for Americans and Estonians while here in kenya. You need not emigrate to Europe or US to look for jobs. We do the jobs here; even though they are competitive. But from my experience on odesk, kenyans are doing a good job and are in high demand.....like I get jobs all the time and the employers prefer me to the Indians and the Philpines....whats ua experience Lu?