Some new stuff. Part of my futile attempt in looking for rendering work in competition with people around the world that will do this for $5/hour.

@MtnArch said in Go fund me?:

I believe you're referring to a thread started by Gus R (https://community.sketchucation.com/topic/164378/my-gofundme).

Yep. that me. Thanks MtnArch.

In any event most of my work is drafting and little involves rendering jobs. I unsubscribed from Upwork Plus and raised my base rate back to what a freelance drafter with my experience should earn in the USA and not unskilled labor wages. That would be $50/hour. Here's a link to my Facebook professional page which is going nowhere even when I pay for an ad to run for a week.

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Well, I've been giving a shot with Upwork with sending proposals and buying credits but I've gotten nowhere there. Plus the job offers are pathetic with a lot of people literally wanting to pay $5/hour if not peanuts for licensed architects.

I also set up a Facebook professional page and that's not going anywhere either. I'm in the middle of setting up Fiverr but I get the feeling it will be the same as with Upwork with people offering work for 3rd world wages even from people located in the USA.

I'm rather flummoxed with all of this. I have been getting some work from an old client/friend and the architect I worked for on a usual basis has slowed down a lot.

Drafting would remain my bread and butter. Whatever's left of that in this brave new world. I can't compete with people that expect to be paid a 1/4 of what I would get paid picking up garbage on the side of the road.

Reworked and re-rendered. Of course I posted this at some D5 Render community on Facebook and the first comment is from some guy complaining that I ruined the render with too many wood texture. I deleted the post and unfollowed the group. To me it seems that they all post the same lifeless "modern" architecture. Whatever I guess. Looks fine to me. Plus I don't work for slave wages like you see in Upwork.

Thanks guys.

Matisse would work but I was thinking Bierstadt.

My computer died again.

It's either the motherboard or the CPU. I have the previous CPU. Might be the motherboard.

Some recent renderings from the wilderness.

@majid Thanks Majid.

Facebook banned me for a couple of hours because I was liking too many posts and too fast. I had to submit yet another video selfie. I've slowed down since.

Finally got on Facebook. I've been posting a lot of renderings there. See you there maybe

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@L-i-am Yeah. Nothing fancy. Took me a couple of hours. Getting ready to go wherever I go at the end of June. Need the money. I'll probably use this to get a year's subscription for SU. I went on the monthly plan and now they're going to start charging $100/month for that.

Holy smokes! I got a small rendering job from the architect I usually work for. Probably not done yet but I just sped right through it.

I spend too much time on renderings.

@Rich-O-Brien said in Where Does One Find Work?:

Upwork

$100 for a renderer (day) at Upwork.

What's a good website to get work?

3D or drafting.

Angi's List and Thumbtack seem sketchy.

Craiglist is useless.

Social media is also useless.

Guess I might have to put stuff in storage and live in some group living thing. Might also have to cancel my Sketch Up subscription and a bunch of other things. No steady income as freelance. The rent is too high. No rental history for the past 14 years. Believe me this house I've been living in is in bad shape.

Anyone have any experience with putting a desktop in a U-Haul storage unit?

Anyone going to render this?

Here's my beach house model.

Beach House.skp

Version 6

Beach House V6.skp

@L-i-am said in My Gofundme:

Bumpety bump

Still here. I think I'm turning into a Marxist. With Type 1 diabetes.

@L-i-am I added some numbers earlier. I can't make this all add up after the loss of freelance work. Moving, place to live, minus several other monthly payments including I'd need to pay around $150/month for storage.