Aaron Crowe

Some interesting jobs can be found on Craigslist, but often not ones that pay well. There are so many lousy paying jobs for writers on Craigslist and elsewhere that I could provide daily updates on the outlandish ones.

I recently came across an ad for a website looking for comedy writers. I have a good sense of humor, so I wrote to the generic email to see what it was about and if they could use my services.

They could, but at $6.50 per post of about 200 words. I won’t say here what the website was, because I don’t want to embarrass the owner. It’s an interesting site that uses humor in short reviews of a related site that is much bigger.

I politely declined the job assignment, saying that $6.50 for one story doesn’t work for me as a freelance writer.

Here’s part of the email they sent me:

I have the same goals as any blogger:  Provide quality content, attract gobs of traffic and make enough money through ads and other stuff to keep the project alive until I can sell it for a gajillion dollars to some deep-pocketed corporate entity.  Modest ideals, to be sure, but mine own.

We pay beginning writers $6.50 an article.  On the plus side, our articles tend to be short, usually around 200 words, and there are few deadlines.  You can have a byline if you want one and a link to your own site.  There’s also the opportunity to build a following.  Usually writers invoice me via PayPal when their tab gets to $25 or so but you can be paid any time you want.

If that sounds okey-dokey, drop me a line and we’ll talk about a story assignment.