Accepting Jobs
As you likely experienced already, when you are invited to a job you will receive an email asking if you’d like to participate in the customer’s idea project. The invitation will include the following about the project:
The assignment
The timing.
The money.
You do not have to accept any job.
Very important. You may not have time, you may not believe you’ve got the right experience for that particular job, or you may not think the money offered is worth it. It doesn’t matter what your reason is, if you aren’t comfortable accepting the job, then don’t. There are no penalties in not accepting jobs. Customers are coached to over-invite for each job knowing that not all will accept.
If you do accept a job, however, that does not mean you will ultimately be assigned. That’s because the customer may invite eight people and six accept, which means two who accepted will now need to be rejected by the customer in order to field a team of four (four team members is the magic number in this model). But if you choose to accept a job and then get assigned, which you will learn through email and on your dashboard, then you’re on the team and the real fun starts.