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Jobs you are better doing yourself than hiring others.
fewgroats
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Could we come up with a list of tasks that are relatively easy to do and shouldn't require hiring a freelancer or similar? I suppose there are a number of jobs which a businesses should do themselves but don't. Proofing may be a grey area, for example.
Converting a PDF to a Word document.
Converting a Word document to a PDF.
Creating a Spreadsheet.
Converting a PDF to a Word document.
Converting a Word document to a PDF.
Creating a Spreadsheet.
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Trimming my own beard instead of going to a barbershop0
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Do people really hire a freelancer for "creating a spreadsheet", or do they hire them for the domain knowledge and business logic built into that sheet? I'm not sure I really understand the question?!0
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Could we come up with a list of tasks that are relatively easy to do and shouldn't require hiring a freelancer or similar? I suppose there are a number of jobs which a businesses should do themselves but don't. Proofing may be a grey area, for example.
Converting a PDF to a Word document.
Converting a Word document to a PDF.
Creating a Spreadsheet.
Surely these tasks are so simple you wouldnt hire anyone to do this, 20 minutes and a youtube video would give you enough skills to do these.0 -
Proofing a CV
Just find an educated friend and get them to look over it0 -
If you need a YouTube video to do these tasks you may need a freelancer. How skilled is the average manager?Advent Challenge: Money made: £0. Days to Christmas: 59.0
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Sorting the wife out. :cool:0
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If you need a YouTube video to do these tasks you may need a freelancer. How skilled is the average manager?
If you have never used excel to do a spreadsheet before, using a youtube video to learn how to use it does not mean you need a freelancer, if you have half an ounce of intelligence.0 -
Paully232000 wrote: »If you have never used excel to do a spreadsheet before, using a youtube video to learn how to use it does not mean you need a freelancer, if you have half an ounce of intelligence.
Well.. there's 'a spreadsheet' and 'a nicely automated VBA scripted spreadsheet'
Although I still don't know why I can write VBA and automate Excel like a don, but I can't figure out how a vlookup works0 -
You can just save a Word document as a PDF; it's one of the built in format options. If people are hiring people to do this I want in on it.0
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ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »You can just save a Word document as a PDF; it's one of the built in format options. If people are hiring people to do this I want in on it.
If that's the case then lets split the work load 50/50 ?0
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