Today i'll share about my struggles on freelancing and learning new skills. I love correcting usability errors when using an application software or a website; I mean this comes naturally to me and i usually leave feed backs and ratings on google app store and reviews on websites to improve usability. So i thought hay! why not research and see if you can monetize this passion and improve on it.
I did my research and i found websites i can give opinions about a products usability by manually testing them or using them. some of the websites i signed up for all requested paypal account with which i can receive payments. I live in Nigeria and here paypal does not allow users to receive payments but you can send payments through it. This was my first blockage, as some websites do not even accept users from Nigeria while others do, but receiving payments after your job has been completed was another issue. I did find a way around that which i will discuss in a later post.
Learning the process of manual testing and checking for usability issues was not all bliss, I got distracted along the way and even more frustrated having signed up on many websites and applications itching to apply the new knowledge i had just gained, yet i still couldn't get jobs to do online as i envisaged. I thought i wasn't good enough and maybe constrained by the country i came from as some jobs required people from certain regions to carry out the checks/test.
In between I had updated my LinkedIn profile to reflect this additional skills and while i wasn't getting enough job online, i started getting invited for interviews offline for a tester role.
I'll continue from here in my next blog post....
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