On the state of freelance work: You are competing with the world

I have recently checked out some of the top freelance jobs websites for particular software development jobs/projects. 

What I noticed is that your bid competes with other bids from all over the world. 

Many of the newly posted jobs/projects had already plenty of bids received.

These websites also make it very easy and convenient for you to place bids. They do impose limits on the number of bids per time period you can place depending on your membership status etc., but they are fairly generous.

Some of these websites want freelancers to become paying members etc.

One of these freelance jobs websites posted jobs/projects in foreign currency (Indian rupee, Australian dollar etc.) and did not even bother to convert the amount in a common currency or the website visitors preferred currency.

Tough or not easy, I would say.