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I cannot speak about Toptal, but Upwork works pretty good. You just have to avoid silly jobs,be focused and perservere.

Disclaimer: I'm italian, working remote, strong focus on nodeJS and fintech, estimated revenue for 2018 (first year of freelancing full-time, not fully from Upwork): 360K$, working 220 days per year

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Would love to connect and learn more about your experience. My email is in my profile (I dont' see one for you in yours), please reach out. My experience with Upwork is it was a lot of noise and you had to work your way up doing a lot of low-rate jobs first which was mostly beneficial if you got on the network early.

Admirable, where are most of your clients located?

$1500 a day sustained seems like an incredible rate in Europe.

UK, US, Malaysia, even India pays well (if you look carefully).

You should not care about the rate, but the value of your work. In other words, it's about trading in value, not time

As a freelancer with clients, are you generally on deadlines? Or is it work when you want? Essentially I would like to work somewhere around 3 days a week but I am not sure that projects would be able to meet deadlines that clients want. In digital agencies I have worked for, I have had to shown work done every week. And the amount of work given to me was such that I had to work the full week. If I were to do that freelancing I would certainly make more money, but I am hoping that there are jobs where deadlines are based on average around 3 days work...

Either charge a fraction of your weekly price, position yourself as part-time, or prove you can hustle. If you can get 5 days worth of what they think of a week's worth of work in 3 days, you've arbitraged the effort

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