Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨nicgentile@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

I’ve hit rock bottom on this. I want a basic ~$20+ per hour job where I answer calls, chats, emails and help people with whatever they need from home. I don’t mind working nights, long hours, overtime, holidays, I have basically nothing to do.

I have experience, I have technical skills, customer support skills, I have led 2 teams, switched to data entry, but the last close to 100 applications have led me nowhere. I imagined it would be easy to get into Amazon support or something like that, but dang, I am not getting anywhere. All I see are bait and switch jobs to sell insurance, or travel agency stuff, or benefits or some sort of MLM.

I got into CloudWorkers with the hopes it is some sort of legit cause I am in deep crap.

I have 2 - 3 weeks where I need to figure this one out, and this in the end of the second month looking for work.

Seriously, why is it this hard?

source

Comments

Sort:hotnew top

solrize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Those sorts of jobs are filled from low-wage countries.

source
- MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Ngl reading “basic $20+ per hour job” was kinda funny
  
  source
  - ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    $20 a day is 1.5x minimum wage in Brazil. And we aren’t even that poor.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
- nicgentile@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  So disheartened by this. But thanks.
  
  source
  - solrize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Try charging more so people will take you more seriously. That works surprisingly well a lot of the time.
    
    Try here too: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42017580
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Don’t be disheartened, take what was said in the second part of the response and apply it. Answer those questions and refine your search based on the answers.
    
    source
- RelativeArea0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  and they are priced worse, like $300-500 a month
  
  source
thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
I was offered $21/hr to remote work at some google outsourced company for one of their LLM projects. It was going to be grueling work, full-time, no benefits. It took about 120 applications (two responses) to even get there, and they ghosted me after a second interview. It’s awful out there and I feel for you 100%. Best of luck, genuinely.

source
- nicgentile@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Ouch. Hopefully you ended up with something else.
  
  source
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
There isn’t a single company in the country that’s going to pay you $20/hr to do something that entire offices are doing across the world for that same rate. You’re shooting way too high for that wage doing that kind of work

source
- LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  I got paid a lot more than that doing similar for a while before the pandemic. Since the pandemic companies got caught up in the forcing people back into offices for no reason. When you are assisting people across the nation and there is information that cannot be allowed to be accessed outside it, they have to keep the jobs in the country to keep government contracts. There is no point in hiring someone in the city and have them drive in when it costs more to live in the city, it’s cheaper to pay someone who lives further away.
  
  Why pay someone $35 an hour in a city that they can barely afford to live in and are always looking for a way out the door to find a better rate, when you can hire someone elsewhere who can live comfortably off $35 an hour and considers themselves lucky.
  
  I spent 3 years with a company that I never went into an office once.
  
  source
- nicgentile@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  What should I be aiming for? I’m simply going by what the sites are stating.
  
  source
  - PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Those postings are put up by recrutiers for jobs that don’t exist to pad their rolodex in case they happen to get a overqualified candidate. There aren’t actually any $20/hr entry level remote jobs on the market.
    
    source
  - Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Below min wage. You’re competing with India, not America.
    
    source
MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Aim for higher paying jobs. That filters lots of crap. Legit jobs will take more thana few weeks to pay you.

If the timeline is a few weeks, look elsewhere.

Sorry.

source
- nicgentile@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  I get that, but at some point, I had two months to spare. It’s dwindled down to this.
  
  source
  - MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    I don’t know your situation, but some time with a spreadsheet is called for. Figure out how to stretch things.
    
    Clearly, this drifts from your original question.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
superkret@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Because the sort of people who are in the market for low level jobs aren’t the sort of people who function well in a remote work environment with little oversight.

Bluntly: Low skilled workers will slack off without direct supervision.

source
- Entropywins@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  I’m a high skilled worker who is really good at slacking off with direct supervision…
  
  source
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

I got into CloudWorkers with the hopes it is some sort of legit cause I am in deep crap.

www.reddit.com/r/…/warning_about_cloudworkers/

I wouldn’t hold your breath.

source
- nicgentile@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Fair enough.
  
  I read the thing about CloudWorkers when I signed up. The math means its 10 bucks an hour and if you work 12 hours a day 7 days a week, then it dings the needle slightly cause its shy of 3K. Either way, it is currently the best deal I have on the table.
  
  source
Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
More demand than supply.

source
Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Many have stated demand vs supply but, a lot of it is also because many jobs are scared to have entry level as remote. The ability to train on the go is more difficult then in house, so many entry level positions start as office jobs and move over to WFH, this causes a difficulty for people who can only do WFH

source
2ugly2live@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Wanna work in insurance?

source
- nicgentile@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Depends on the role, but I am willing to give it a go.
  
  source
  - 2ugly2live@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Remote claim work. Glorified customer service. It is busy and people burn out in a few months.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
nicgentile@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Depends on the role, but yeah, willing to give it a go.

source