Comments on: This Freelance Job, Not That Freelance Job

By: lwidmer

lwidmer — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 20:46:59 +0000

In reply to Sharon Hurley Hall. Thank YOU for sending it over, Sharon. And you're so right -- there's more than enough real work to be had. No one has to resort to this.

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:20:30 +0000

This one was a doozy, Lori – thanks for calling it out! There seem to be more and more of these so-called opportunities. Luckily, there’s plenty of real work about, too.

By: lwidmer

lwidmer — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:05:11 +0000

In reply to Paula Hendrickson.

We can certainly blame the internet for part of this. But I think a good portion of the blame rests on unsavory people who stop at nothing to exploit someone else to get what they want. That’s what these job posters do — they use language to convince newcomers that they’ll somehow have a shot at getting to the elite status by slogging it out at the lower levels. That. Never. Happens. Anyone paying this kind of crap has no intention of increasing pay to a respectable amount.

There is so much better out there. This doesn’t have to be the starting point.

By: lwidmer

lwidmer — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:01:59 +0000

In reply to Devon Ellington. I remember the Radish post all too well, Devon. Yes. That was such an insult!

By: Paula Hendrickson

Paula Hendrickson — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:40:37 +0000

My favorite line: Those “higher-paying Expert-level projects” (given to you by people who have no idea that hyphens exist) are going to have you making rain all over the place, right?

Was nearly topped by: And maybe one of those globetrotters will know that it’s one word and not two….

I don’t recall ever seeing these kinds of pathetic job ads before content mills invaded the internet. Sure, there were low-payers before, they didn’t try to couch it. One local rag that cost 50-cents per issue was so riddled with grammatical errors I joked that you paid a penny per error.

“Just. Don’t.” Well said, Lori.

By: Devon Ellington

Devon Ellington — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:07:41 +0000

I’m so sick of these insulting “job” offers. Content mills are simply re-inventing themselves. Remember that post we discussed from Radish? Ghostwriting stories for $50 per “chapter”, but you had to write 15,000 words per week?

No, thanks.

I’m a Sierra club member, so I’m reading their mag with an eye to pitching them! 😉