lorpheus

Yes. Start looking for income from other sources, preferably locally. The US dollar is about to get hyper-inflated out of existence, or at least it will lose so much purchasing power that the current 'east is working for the west' system will come to an abrupt end. It will be like buyers will offer you $5000 for a day's work, but that $5000 will be worth like 50 cents today. Will you still work a whole day for today's 50 cents value? Financially you will be better off working in some local offices, workshops, or even growing food on the fields. This is not something that will happen in the distant future, but it is happening now, the process has already started. The unbelievable $31 trillion US national debt can't ever be paid back, so they are going to default. Also, the BRICS nations and even the OPEC countries have already abandoned the US dollar as the main reserve and international payment currency. The petrodollar is dead, it's purchasing power and world domination is finished.

I have been a level 2 seller with 5 star rating here for a couple of years before I decided to temporarily stop selling on Fiverr, and worked for clients found elsewhere. Today I decided to check in to my account and see if the buyer project volumes are decreasing here as well, because the demand has drastically declined for me during this year. To my disappointment, Fiverr has taken away our ability to see how many projects are available (probably exactly for this reason), so my mission is not accomplished in this regard. But, now I see that you guys are also experiencing the bear market, so this substitutes the looking into the number of buyer requests. So, your experience of fewer project requests is not just a fluke of bad luck, or because you did something wrong. It is the consequence of the global economic downturn. If you have paid attention to the news. you might have noticed that several banks have gone bankrupt this year in US and also in Europe, and the banking crisis is not over yet, in fact it just started. Many banks are insolvent and reluctant to provide loans to companies. Without loans, many smaller businesses go bankrupt, or at least drastically decrease their spending. All this translates to us as fewer orders. Unlike some other comments, I don't want to deceive you with false hopes. The situation will not get any better in the near future, it will only get worse. So if anybody's livelihood is entirely dependent of the money made here (or on any other freelancer platform) it might be wise to start looking for more money elsewhere.