Dreamquick - 4:44 pm on Oct 14, 2002 (gmt 0)

I've been considering what I really want to do with my life over the next few years and in the process of looking for vacancies to give me some idea I ran into the elance website and shortly after I found the rent-a-coder site.

Essentially these provide a pool of service providers and service buyers, so I could go on there and say I want an app which does X, Y and Z and am willing to pay this much for it. People who can do this task then submit bids and I am free to choose between them. (Obviously I'd like to be on the side of this equation that gets paid).

Now this appeals to me because.... well... I have a low attention span and picking the pieces of work I would like to do, completing them and then moving onto something new appeals to me.

I'm a reasonably good & creative coder so I figure that if this is as easy as it looks I could make a reasonably amount of cash out of this, however only bumping into these the other day I'm;

1) unsure if the idea actually works as expected
2) nervous about the upfront fees which you have to pay to "subscribe"
3) looking for a more UK centric version

Anyone got any ideas?

- Tony