My first two weeks on Upwork

James Tew
TheDigitalNomadLife
4 min readOct 10, 2022

My first two weeks on Upwork has been an interesting experiement.

Today marks the end of the first two weeks of trying to land jobs on Upwork. With the internet flooded with advice such as “learn a high-demand skill like SEO”, I was really interested to find out just how hard it would be to land freelance work.

I’ve previously been able to sell digital products, back when I was taking my YouTube channel seriously but for the last 5 years, I’ve purely focused on my career. None…

James Tew
TheDigitalNomadLife

Dad of five. Naval Officer. Aspiring for consistent progress.