I’ve been away too long, but I’m glad to see you’re still as helpful and supportive as ever. Keep it up and the rewards will come back to you … actually I suspect they already have.

I hope all is well with you and yours. Have a happy holiday season.

Andrew

I agree 100 percent. Work is often waiting for us to find it while we’re searching in other, picked-over locations.

Honey, if you were making so much money from your freelance work that you “don’t have time” to look for new work, you wouldn’t NEED to subscribe to a site that lists jobs paying less than minimum wage. The work would be landing on your doorstep, with high-paid gigs leading to other high-paid gigs.

I look in the phone book, I make notes when I read the paper — any industry that seems interesting to me gets researched and I figure out a way to make myself indispensable at a good wage!

Also, many of my interests are a little off the beaten path — small historical societies, archery, fencing, tiny marine biology labs, things that don’t get a lot of attention.

So I get it for them.

Also, if you’re passionate about a topic, it comes across in your pitch, and the client WANTS someone who’s passionate, and who has fresh eyes.

It’s the way I ended up breaking into theatre — walking in to a company and saying, “Hi, this is why you need me.” And they did. And I made it to Broadway.

Thanks for the mention!