My sales are absolutely tragic lately but polish employers and clients are generally unwilling to pay for work (for example people on 9 to 5 sometimes aren't paid for 3 months before they get pissed and quit) which results in your typical, average poles mass emigrating for work abroad so yeah. I think it's slightly worse than usual for last couple years, worse still recently but it kinda was always bad... Poland always had a problem lol.
So yes, it's worse, but the job and gig market was never good in the first place. I scrape by somehow because I take money upfront and refuse to do unlimited revisions, etc. Like idk, lately did an audit and strategy for a guy that gets banned a lot and that's it, for that amount use the strategy yourself... If you want whole campaign setup pay more but if you don't it's fine too because I charged for an audit already. Honestly this is also why I'm leaning more towards course route nowadays, even if a bit cringe, since I do a bit of paid audits already so might as well mass distribute a digital product... As in, complete self-service, want shit from me then go, pay, download it yourself, already pre-written/recorded, read/watch it yourself, do the changes yourself and if you want custom audit pay more and if you want full service, access to me and me actually doing the thing then pay more. That's the only way to solve this other than going full blackhat and robbing people lol (hey, don't complain, I'm slavic after all
). People need to learn that if they pay less, yes, they do receive something good and valuable, but less than if they paid more. Want more? Pay more. No? Then piss off, I charged some already, bye bye. I see also polish freelancers in groups complain in the comments, right under clients' posts... If the offer is shitty people openly complain lol. Like, why would we want to work for free?
But yeah, Poland always had a problem. Yes, we do have nice stores, clean streets and are developed, our passports are in top 10 (I think 6 nowadays in the Passport Index? It changes all the time) but it's unstable country plagued by shitty job market, nationalism and religious zealotry (I don't care about Jan Paul II's favourite cake, stop talking about this to me), it's absolutely unliveable if you're not christian like I'm not, it's not completely sovereign even if it claims to be (lots of american and german meddling there), currently Ukraine tries to take it over... It has problems. But still, we have tons of small entrepreneurship, we do some basic business with each other, unlike freelancers from countries that focus on foreign clients only. We have a healthy mix of cash, bank transfers, debit/credit card and digital transactions (like BLIK). I'm not a poor girl from slums or some deep province so not really impressed by some random passport bros approaching (somebody please explain to these dudes that to get me interested they'd have to buy me an apartment/house or AT LEAST gift gold jewelry on a regular basis, I don't cook and clean because that's what restaurants and cleaning companies are for and generally if you want cheap girl you might want to skip Poland or if you really insist on banging a polish girl then maybe try with the ones that live off welfare idk). It's not a tier 3 country lol. And even actual 'tier 3' countries aren't as bad as people make them out to be, lived in one for last 2 years almost and it was a positive experience and nice adventure. Hell, even that proves that poles aren't as broke as you make us out to be, if we digital nomad in Asia just like the westerners do then obviously you can't expect me to be all impressed by some broke dudes like thai girls (...?
) are. Like, basically I could be a passport sis if I wanted
and you go all passport bro on me
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Here, this artist is polish:
Like... Come on.
But regardless of us being kinda broke kinda not (hey, Central Europe trope right there for ya... Kinda eastern, kinda western at the same time) I would be seriously surprised if there were any Poland on the map after WW3:
Let's see if there will be any country to return to after my travels
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