For the first two years of my copywriting career, I depended entirely on Fiverr and Upwork for every client and every dollar I earned. Then one morning I woke up to find my Fiverr account had been disabled. Everything I had built from reviews, ranking, and client history was all gone overnight. At the same…
The first time I submitted a proposal on Upwork, I spent two hours writing what I thought was a convincing pitch. I sent it, refreshed the page every thirty minutes for three days, and heard nothing. I did the same thing eleven more times over the next two weeks. Twelve proposals. Zero responses. Zero views…
The way I applied for jobs changed completely in 2025. Not because AI made it easier to find work, but because AI layoffs flooded the remote job market with more competition than I had ever seen before. Companies started replacing writers, designers, customer service teams, and data entry workers with AI tools almost overnight. Salesforce…