If you're desperate for money
@TrinityDownpour (790)
Liechtenstein
December 31, 2012 7:26am CST
If you're an unemployed third world country worker and desperate for money, would you work for $1 per hour or even $0.50 per hour? I know most third world country professionals wouldn't accept such measly sum. But you still get a lot of third world country "professionals" fighting for a job that pays a measly sum in Odesk and other freelance sites.
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6 responses
@jvincent_129 (4994)
• Philippines
31 Dec 12
That's what is outsourcing. They get workforce from other countries make them do jobs in the US with lower pay. But still to the standard of the third world country, the pay looks high. If compare it with the pay in the US, you would say that it is much higher. 
@TrinityDownpour (790)
• Liechtenstein
31 Dec 12
Too bad these third world country people don't know how to value their time and effort otherwise they'll get paid more.
@ashwinanand (582)
• India
31 Dec 12
Hi!If I am in that situation I would surely take up the offer and work.'Something is better than nothing', so its better to work than simply go about saying I am jobless.
@TrinityDownpour (790)
• Liechtenstein
31 Dec 12
But usually the lowest paying job is the job with the heaviest/most stressful workload because the client don't know how to value the time and effect of the people they hired. They usually tend to treat you like dirt.
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
31 Dec 12
if i allow myself to take on a job paying about a dollar an hour then that would just be a quarter of what i am supposed to receive each day! I think that is not possible because that would just like be my lunch money and it would not even be able to cover my transportation fare. so basically if i accept that kind of job even if i am in dire need for money, with this amount offered, then that meant i must just try to find something else and not go for something that is less than a break even when pay out comes.
@TrinityDownpour (790)
• Liechtenstein
31 Dec 12
$300 per month is way too little for an unemployed student with skills like me
unless I applied for a paid internship.
But I would at least needed to be paid $10/$20 per hour so that it is worth my time and this applies only for freelancing. While real life jobs on the other hand pay lesser.
@maezee (41985)
• United States
31 Dec 12
I Guess I might be doing the same if that were the case. In third world countries, is the standard of living a lot cheaper too, then? I have always wondered that. I would do whatever it took to support my family. Luckily I live in a pretty developed country where there is always options..Although even in a "developed" country, it is still hard to make ends meet.
@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
31 Dec 12
I would have to know what I could buy with that money in that country. When I read that there are places in the US where you need way over $1000 for a small 2 room apartment, maybe not even in a nice neighborhood I am shocked. I read many stories of grownup people having to live with their parents or having to share a place with a roommate. I think that poverty problems are everywhere. Maybe in a third world country you will buy more bread with one dollar than what you can but in a developped one.
