Field Nation

Ive been working in this industry for a few years since maybe 2011 and started with Field Nation in 2015. Getting work could be challenging because some buyers just want to hire techs at 25 an hour and my work is not worth 25 an hour. Wish they buyers were more conscious that we have to pay gas, its 4.00 a gallon in NYC for regular can’t imagine if your car uses premium. Then we have to pay tolls, private insurance or insurance through field nation then we have to pay field nations fee which is fine since they have buyers and provide us with help 24.7. I had a buyer say “ sure doesn't seem far” almost responded “ bet you are charging the client way more than what you wanna pay me” An ongoing issue i have experienced is when you request a job and you say dont have certain tools or qualifications like FN calls it, you select tools or skills to add to your profile and the app just slows to a crawl. Another issue is I wish when adding deliverables in the form of pictures, when selecting pictures from camera roll, don't display HEIC pictures cause i know they don't work on the app. Wish we could filter out certain areas, I don't go to Manhattan just because it’s impossible to park on the street and I have a large vehicle and a lot of parking places don't want to take it, I've ran into that issue several times. I get a lot of notifications from Manhattan but cant go there. Lastly a very critical bug is the GPS , To give the buyer an exact price for travel, I depend on the app to show how far jib site is from home, but it could be off by a few miles. Of course listed job you can only see the town but some jobs do have the address of job site and its been off.

I love that but it still has room for a lot of improvements like it is slow, delivering the text messages and the emails to my account. Sometimes when they come through and I click on it it’s already been sent and assigned to someone else and as for the policy. A lot of times when I go out and do troubleshoot and surveys I am not getting the work directly assigned to me to go back and perform the service and as far as the payouts it is still taking too long to get us paid out on these work orders if we perform work at a job site, we need to be getting paid 1 to 3 days after we’re finished working for some of us. This is a way of life and this is how we keep going from one order to the next if you have any other questions about what’s going on with the app? And your contractors and why they’re not taking work, and things are not going as fast as they should go give me a call do you have my number and I have no problem telling you what’s going on out here in our world.

I can’t speak highly enough of Field Nation, because it’s literally changed my life. Working through Field Nation has given me the ability to work for myself without all of the hassles. I think the 1.5% they charge to insure you in a job site is fair and removes some of the headache of being a business owner. The 10% fee they charge IS a little much, but at the end of the day I’m okay with it due to how streamlined the website (and app) that Field Nation uses is.. The fact that they conveniently keep track of your income and take care of the W-2 for you is another headache removed. Also, they pay you two times a week and you can’t beat that! I’ve also picked up other jobs on FN that I normally wouldn’t have heard about, but am totally capable of doing which allows me to make even that much more money. I currently do CCTV full time, all through FN but I’ve also picked up lighting audits for major stores, setting up store displays and whatnot for extra pocket cash. All in all, I’m very happy that I’ve jumped on the Field Nation bandwagon and it’s changed my life for the better as I don’t have to punch in and out and be a slave for anyone else, ever again. - Chris W., Vermont