Working 9 to 5: When the Desk Job Sounds Appealing
It is possible: You can transition from freelancing to a staff job, but it might not be fun. Just ask Kristine Hansen:
Working from home, I hadn’t paid much regard to deadlines that an editor and art team had in conjunction with producing my story. I just wrote. I had no clue what their jobs were like. Now I know. They’re hectic. And so while at first it was batty to have such a heavy hand in my story (sometimes I scouted properties to photograph, for example), I see how this helps out the staff. Had I known that providing photo suggestions or turning in an article early would have given me brownie points as a freelancer I just may have done those two things more often.
Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our 
