I Need A Freakin Job @ Yahoo! Video
President Obama must not have been too happy when he saw a billboard with “I Need a Freakin’ Job” on it when he went to speak about the administration’s efforts in job growth.
INAFJ.org is reminding the president that creating jobs should be the most important goal before the [...]
Here’s something new I bet most writers haven’t run across: Having your name entered in a lottery to see if you win a job.
I was contacted last week by someone I’ve worked with before to see if I wanted to do some writing for an SEO project the company is doing. I’ve done plenty of [...]
I’m no expert in how to attract traffic to a website, but a writer friend of mine, Amy Yannello, who recently started her own blog, asked me how I try to get traffic to this site.
My answer: I don’t. At least not much. The original and continued goal of this blog, which I started shortly [...]
I don’t want to turn this blog into a daily list of how writers are getting screwed on pay, but here’s another example of someone trying to pull a fast one on writers. I think it shows how the unemployed, or underemployed, are being preyed upon to write.
It was forwarded to me by my former [...]
Why do people try to lowball writers? Or get them to work for free?
I was approached this week by an entrepreneur who wanted to hire an editor and writer to blog for his website. It was in a field I’m very much interested in, but I wasn’t going to do the work for a low [...]