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Tuesday Sep 12, 2006

Because Getting Paid What You're Worth is Just Plain Greedy

I found out about this from a post on Freelance Success:

Excerpts from a Craig's List job listing:

Wanted: Good writers who are knowledgeable about and interested in automobiles and auto parts for large web content project. The right authors can earn a considerable paycheck for this project, over a significant period of time.

A typical weekly assignment for this project will be writing around 100 articles of 250-300 words apiece. For a typical weekly batch, the total compensation is between $275 and $550, depending on the quality of the material and the reliability of the writer. Some writers are able to do more than one batch; our most productive writer works at this job about 3/4 time and does 3 or 4 batches in a week.

.... There is some possibility for advancement to more challenging projects from this one, but it is not recommended that you work on this project solely in the hopes of getting a better one later. This project will be much more suited to someone who is inherently interested in and knowledgeable of the auto parts industry. If you hate cars, this is not the job for you.

A genius-type poster on the board pointed out that that adds up to about .009 to .018 cents per word. Hey honey, I don't get out of bed for less than .01 cents per word per day.


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