@amhere, very true...i av realise that may kenyans are going down that road( getting into online jobs ) which is a great sign of greater ICT penetration in the country.ION,am new on elance,do u mind helping me out as i embark on my baby steps?

@tupac,had the same issue. After numerous attempts, i left a voicemail message which was not acted upon..i then waited for their working hours(4rm afternoon for us)then sent a complaint via email,and only 10min elapsed b4 they called and verified.

I had the same nasty experience with elance regarding phone verification last year December.. I looked at odesk and never regretted. If you are a serious software developer (in this case Java developers .., I have seen PHP guys contratced for less than 5$/hr) I encourage you to join odesk . .. I started with part-time doing 10-20 hrs a week hourly rates of 10$/hr. Now I am putting over 30hrs a week besides my 8-5job.. Their payment system is ok, wire transfer takes kindu 3 days.. and voila, the dollars in your local account in local currency ..

This is something getting bigger n Just like what AmHere said, go there try It out & believe what u want to

that is fantastic Tupac, I want to hear more/other wazuan experiences who have made money online.

By the way, these contracts are like any other job. Sometimes, on the unlikely event, they are suspended say when client doesn't have enough fund to pay odesk so that the platform can inturn pay you.. but ultimately thy always unsuspend when the client cash flow is ok.

One can make money there as an Investor, read client, where you contract people to develop stuff for your.. Or you are just contracted to do stuff.

I have seen local corporates who do not trust local developers, they ship jobs to US and the outsiders end up hiring us to develop the software on odesk, and of course the local corporates looses millions since they would have hired directly from here .. talk of high level brain drain