the profile and boosting business. today, debby is visiting astella in person, meeting the owner she met on the website, elance, for the first time. freelancing, you don t have to pay health care, pay the cost of hiring them, and so freelancing is a good thing to did when you have discreet project needs. it s a very large market and has been growing at 50 percent per year for the last several years. currently, we have over 100,000 companies using our service actively. jamie: welcome to the new wave of microentrepreneurs, websites like elance and fiber are lanking linking a broad range of workers. fiber charges an affordable $5 per project, the companies earn a percentage from worker and employer and hold the money in escrow until each project is complete. the internet has matured in a very interesting fashion. in the beginning, people were just using it to find things, to do search things,
to interact, and this is kind of the next step. jamie: matthew hamilton is offering audio mastering on fivvr, before a cd or jingle iss arid, making money while studying at columbia university. i ve been able to build up good feedback, i ve got 100 percent feedback on it now, so hopefully i can move to a bigger project, open up a website, open up more production and go into business that way. i never had to look back. i was able to just launch a career and support myself as a freelance writer through 9/11, through the current economy, and i m very, very happy with it. jamie: and debby says giving up her commute and the time it takes to get dressed every morning allows more time to spend building her business. she s not clients away as far as australia and saudi arabia. websites like elance and fivrr prescreen both,
critical condition. jaime here s a question to think about, even if it s your day off. how happy are you with your job? according to a government survey, 39 percent of self-employed workers say they re completely satisfied with their jobs, compared with 28 percent of salaried employees. and each year, many more freelancers are joining the ranks of the 42 million workers who believe in being their own bosses. there s also a new breed of websites cropping up that we found and also it s it s also creating jobs while saving small businesses a load of cash. debby feldstein has been working for a children s clothing store in new york city for three months at home. the light bulb went off and i went hmm, i can work from home and make a living and i make a very good living at it. jamie: she writes press releases, hope to go raise
york, just one of the cities where the heat is on big time, the northeast looking at triple digit temps. how long will this heat wave last and how long can you stay safe and cool during this summer sizler? a new leader taking charge of the war in afghanistan. general david petraeus, formally assuming command, telling the 130,000 international troops you said his command, we are in this to win. petraeus, quickly stepping in to replace general stanley mcchrystal who resigned after those controversial remarks he made to rolling stone magazine. petraeus is in charge of turning around an increasingly deadly war at a critical time. he was just months he has just months, i should say, to convince both the afghan people and neighboring nations that the u.s. is committed to keeping al-qaeda out of that country. major garrett is live from the white house for us now. we all know june was the deadliest month of the afghan war, major, one of the issues facing u.s. forces, those rules