The days are changing for freelancers

1. The good news is freelancing

The days are changing for freelancers

Now 6.5 lakh to 1 million young people work in freelancing in the country. Earn dollars at home. Giving opportunity to others.

1. Freelancing

Age is about 23-24. Neat and shiny look. Shirt-jeans of a world-famous brand on the body, sneakers of a famous brand on the feet, laptop-Apple Macbook in the shoulder bag. All this is bought with own income. At this age who is supposed to be at the end of his education or looking for a job, how is he leading such an independent life? This young man is a freelancer. Now many young people like him live in the country and earn in dollars. Many have a monthly income of a thousand dollars or more.

1. Freelancer can be Bengali free professional. They are not bound by the nine-to-five job. You can work from home or anywhere. All you need is your own skills, electricity and a fast internet connection. United States, United Kingdom, Europe and other countries of the world, the cost is higher if local workers are hired. Many times there are not as many workers as required.
2. They then outsource the specific work. It saves money for that organization or person, as well as that person also earns by doing the work from any place. Most jobs are matched on certain websites. In IT parlance these are 'online marketplaces' (online job markets). The interest of young people in freelancing is increasing due to the expansion of information technology and various government and private initiatives in the country.
3. Shah Imraul Qaish, managing director of software development company TechnoBD, is a successful freelancer. He said, since 2005-06, freelancing work started coming in the country. Young people are the pioneers in this work. Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services' 'BASIS Outsourcing Award' has contributed to popularizing freelancing.

Millions of young people in freelancing, how much income

1. State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Junaid Ahmed said that there are now six and a half lakh freelancers in the country. Their total annual income is about 1 billion dollars or 10,600 crore taka (106 taka per dollar). Since 2014, 53,000 youth have been trained in various IT subjects through the Learning and Earning project.

• However, Chairman of Bangladesh Freelancer Development Society Tanjiba Rahman said that the account of six and a half lakhs is held by Upwork Marketplace. 153 marketplaces are operated from Bangladesh. If you calculate them, this number is about 10 lakh. 55 percent of them are between 20 and 35 years old. However, the participation of women in freelancing is still low.

1. Tanjiba Rahman says India is at the top in terms of freelancing. After that, the location of Bangladesh. However, Bangladesh ranks seventh in terms of income. The United States is at the top.

Tanjiba Rahman said that smart cards have been given to about 30 thousand freelancers since 2020. These card holders will get bank loan facility. 4 percent incentive is also being given if the income is brought from outside through the bank.

How to learn

1. Touhidur Rahman, a successful and experienced freelancer from Dhaka , told Prothom Alo , first of all, the freelancing issue should be understood. Then one should be proficient in information technology. Better to get a job first or work with a successful freelancer. By referring to these works, a good portfolio should be created in the marketplace. The work should be done on time.

Tanjiba Rahman said that although the job market is small due to the corona epidemic, the field of freelancing work has increased. Now digital marketing, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), graphic design and logo creation, web development jobs are in high demand. Apart from this, content writing (basically product or service description or promotional writing), modern photography, human resource management and accounting are in demand.

1. There are two ways of earning in freelancing.

An active earning. This is earning by working directly with customers. Another passive or indirect income. It is earning by working from various marketplaces.

According to Bangladesh Freelancer Development Society, popular marketplaces in Bangladesh are Upwork, Freelancer.com, FiveR, Guru.com, Toptal, PeoplePerhour etc. To get a job on the marketplace, you have to bid on wages and hours. Employer hires qualified people by looking at salary and portfolio.

Social recognition of work

1. Although the situation has improved now, people of the country did not have much idea about freelancing even two or three years ago. Many freelancers have heard that 'he wakes up at night, spends the whole day with the computer, whatever he does, it is not a job or something permanent, a girl cannot be married to him'. But now the situation has changed a lot.
2. However, the social recognition of freelancers' work has increased, but there is still a long way to go. Russell T Ahmed, president of Basis, feels, 'There needs to be a change in freelancing. Now there are more freelancers, but 10 percent earn better. In fact, one must be proficient in specific areas of information technology. In order to become a freelancer, one needs to be skilled in communication as well as in specific subjects.

Freelancer Touhidur feels that despite the increase in initiative, personal income, there is no benefit of good quality training.

Abul Kashem, Managing Director of Chittagong outsourcing company Exponent said, 'We should have gone further. Freelancers do not get any guidance from the country's ICT industry. We do not get guidance on what subjects will be in demand in the future or what to be skilled in.'

Abul Kashem said, 'India is a very big market. Even in Pakistan a freelancer earns 1 lakh dollars a year. We would be happy if any of us had an annual income of 10,000 dollars. Freelancers need expert opinion and guidance from the ICT industry sector.'

He also performed social responsibilities

1. One thing is noticeable in the work of freelancers. When he started alone and became successful, he involved the youth of the neighborhood in this work. Make their way of income.

Subir Nakarek, a Garo youth from Madhupur upazila of Tangail, became successful by freelancing from that forest area. He then established an IT institute and taught the nearby Garo youth. About 50,000 youth from all ethnic groups have been introduced to freelancing.

• Again, Minhaj of Sherpur, who has a degree from Qaumi Madrasa, successfully taught freelancing to 700 students of the Madrasa. Shubo Sarkar of Dhaka started freelancing after learning three-dimensional graphics and animation to save his cancer-stricken father. Now his father is healthy and he is a successful freelancer.

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Technology

Tips

How to speed up Windows computer

Windows 11

Microsoft

1. Your personal computer (PC) is getting a little old. Installing heavy software on it. Regular antivirus is also not provided. All in all, PCs running on Windows operating systems have slowed down. Newer PCs can also slow down. If your PC is slow, you can follow some suggestions. It can speed up the PC.

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• Check whether your PC has the latest updates for Windows operating system and other device driver software. If not, give it now. For this, go to Settings from the Start button and click on Windows Update and Check for Updates. If it says 'You are up to date', then the PC is up to date. And if it says 'Updates and Available', give the update. It can speed up your PC.

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• Having too many apps, programs and web browsers open at the same time slows down the computer. Having many tabs open in the browser at the same time can slow down the speed. If this happens, close unnecessary apps and tabs. If even this does not increase the speed, then restart the PC and open only necessary apps, programs and browsers, you will see the speed increase.

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• You can use ReadyBoost feature of Windows to increase speed. With ReadyBoost you can use a USB flash drive or SD card as an extra RAM to speed up without opening the PC. To use ReadyBoost, you must have a USB flash drive or memory card with at least 500 MB of free space and a high data transfer rate.

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• Windows uses the paging file on your hard disk like memory. Windows 11 has a setting that automatically adjusts the page file size. Make sure these settings are working properly in your Windows. It increases PC speed.

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• Check if your PC disk space is running low. If so, you can speed up the PC by freeing up the disk. In this case you can delete some unnecessary or temporary files from your partition.

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• Windows 11 version has many visual effects like animation and shadow effect. Sounds great, but it consumes extra operating system power. This slows down the PC speed. And if the PC has less RAM, it is more efficient. So adjust between Windows hardware and performance.

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• You probably use online cloud storage OneDrive to take advantage of accessing your files from anywhere. Keep files synchronized between your PC and OneDrive. It slows down your PC. So you can turn off syncing to speed up your PC.

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• As soon as you turn on your PC, some programs start automatically and run continuously. You can turn off these programs. They won't start running after the PC is turned on. This will speed up the PC.

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• Viruses, malware or harmful software can slow down your PC. Scan your PC for viruses or other harmful software and remove them. It will speed up your PC.

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• A recently installed new app, driver or update might be causing your PC problems. Restart the PC. This might make your PC run normally again and speed up.

The Google Home speaker also works

Smart speaker of Google 

1. Some Google Home smart speakers can be hacked and controlled remotely. Apart from this, it is also possible to interact with the user of the device. A cyber security expert named Matt Kunji said so.

• Matt Kunji has also been awarded by Google for identifying this bug in the smart speaker. In a blog post, the expert wrote, he found the bug while searching for a possible issue with his personal Google Home Mini speaker. Taking advantage of this bug, another Google account can be connected to the speaker.
• For this, the hacker must first be within the wireless range of the Google Smart Speaker and know the MAC address associated with Google. Hackers can then disconnect the speaker from the network and enter setup mode by sending a 'deauthentication packet'.
• And in this setup mode they can find the detailed information of the device and use it to connect it with their own account. Hackers can then eavesdrop on speaker user conversations over the Internet. Then you can listen even if you go out of Wi-Fi connection range.

  

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