Every freelancer, unless you were always popular to begin with, has been through a situation where they were forced to work for peanuts, or work for a job that doesn’t offer absolutely any guarantee regarding payment whatsoever.

So diving straight to the point, here’s a small compilation of various signs that show that you are working for the wrong freelance jobs.

They ask you to pay ‘fee’ to join: This is the biggest red alert that shows that you definitely must not take that job. Firstly, you have absolutely no idea about the organization. Yes they have mentioned all about what they do, their location and a few testimonials to back up their authenticity. However, you still don’t know how much of it is true.

Secondly, nobody asks to pay them to give you a job. Agreeing to something like that is disrespecting your own skills and ability.

The pay is extremely less: Working for commission that’s as less as $1 per task? Then you better quit the job right now and use up the same time to work on your skills and resume and land yourself in a real job that pays you what you deserve. Again, working for a job like that is degrading your abilities and skills, which I’m sure you wouldn’t want to. Finding a real job may take time. However, by networking with the right people and fixing all the flaws that are hindering your chances of getting a job will definitely help you in a long run.

Pay per clicks: Freelance writers would have come across jobs like this. So, yet again, if you aren’t an ace blogger or a blogging celebrity whose blog is sure to earn at least around a thousand clicks in a week, this job is not for you, no matter how tempting the pay might seem in the beginning. You might think that writing a compelling blog might help you reach the scale of thousands, but reaching that level of visibility is going to take months, which you can use in a more productive way by preparing for job interviews.

You might also be offered to pay based on the ratings your article gets or an offer to share Adsense revenue. No matter how feasible the idea might seem in the beginning, it’s not going to work.

That’s about some of the signs that show you have landed yourself in a very bad freelance job or will be in future.

Getting a real job might be hard, but with a little hard work on your side, some help from your connections and professional recruitment experts, you would definitely find a good job that pays you regularly.

Also, there are a lot of great and genuine freelance jobs out there that pay you the money you deserve for your work. Unless you work for one of those kinds of freelance jobs, you might want to reconsider what you are doing.