freelancing

23 Sep 2019

Lessons for Freelance Writers Competing in Our Gig Economy

By Dee Dee Thompson When I decided to start freelance content writing back in December 2018, I’d just gotten fired from a sales role after only five weeks. Honestly, it was the best news ever (I hated that job), but I still worried about my finances and scrambled to find

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31 Mar 2017

Tax and Flu Season Feel the Same

The last time I felt this nauseated, angry and anxious was when I had morning sickness. I never threw up over homework assignments in high school. Not even when I was a sleep deprived, hormonal, overachiever taking an absurd amount of AP classes. I’m not pregnant, I don’t have the flu,

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10 Feb 2016

5 Things That can get an International Freelancer Screwed

Passport, ticket, money? Check. Bags are in the hallway and your office is where it’s been since you started working: safely zipped in your laptop bag (even if you do most of your work from your phone these days). Goodbye, gritty bedsit, crazy roommates and the neighbor lady who fries

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05 Jan 2015

Work Less, Barter More, Live Better: A Free-Lancers Guide to Bartering

In the last 6 months alone, I have bartered for 20/20 vision via $4000 Lasik eye surgery, $2500 in catering, $400 worth of handyman work, $660 worth of hypnotherapy sessions, 20 Kinky Salon tickets, $1200 worth of gym membership/ personal training, $140 Deva hair cuts, and a $390 Burningman ticket. If I can barter for all

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07 May 2014

The Work From Home Checklist: Things to Do Before You Leave the House

More and more people these days are freelancing or working for themselves. This also means that more and more people are working from home, which in turn means more and more people are becoming unhygienic shut-ins with diminishing social skills. At first the idea of working form home seems awesome,

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
12 Apr 2011

Freelancing Your Way Around New York

If you’re like me and you either have a job but don’t have an office, or have several freelance jobs and don’t have an office and your home is not exactly the most productive or comfortable place to be, you’re going to need a good, reliable work spot. Here are

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