A friend of mine recently lost his job with a large Canadian news conglomerate. He’d been with them for several years as an entertainment writer, but given the state of the economy and how the web has taken over the Dead Tree Press, he was laid off in a round of cuts. Actually, it wasn’t [...]

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Oh my God. If I had a nickel for every time I got asked that, I could say “Hell yeah, I have eleventy billion dollars just from people asking me about being a freelancer!”
As with any job, much of it depends on the person in question. Also, what is your niche? If you are a [...]

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Attention bloggers! Today.com is hiring people in the current events/news/politics/leisure areas. Know your stuff? Want to write about it? Want to get paid per page-view?
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IttyBiz writes a blog post this morning:

How To Deal When You Want To Have Sex With A Client
No idea. But let me know if you come up with anything.
Moving on.
Coffee aaallll over my keyboard. Now that’s a headline guaranteed to draw traffic.

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Working from home doesn’t mean you never get a winter cold. In fact, because I work at home, my immune system is weaker than the mass-transit commuter I used to be. Back then I could tolerate millions of germ assaults every day, because I was accustomed to being crowded onto filthy subways cars like cattle [...]

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