Create Sean: Journey to Professional Designer

I’ve been watching a couple of freelancing sites for the past few days and it’s depressing to see the ads being placed. I just saw one for 4 blog templates requiring 3 wireframes, psd, 3 html pages with sample blog entries and allowance for 1-2 reviews of each stage. Total budget $250-$750. I don’t think I’ll be bidding.

Another one was for 6 pages using dreamweaver, maximum budget $60. I could go on, but I won’t. What’s really depressing is that there are tons of people bidding on these projects. If you work for peanuts how can you live.

I do have a full time day job and am bidding on some projects at a somewhat low price, but I’m not going to be taking projects where I’m making less than minimum wage. Honestly, how can these designers work for so little? I want to set my minimum at $50 but haven’t been able to get any work yet so am considering dropping down to $35 for a couple of projects.