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If you’ve got the stomach for it, I’ve posted yet another bitter rant about newspaper work over at This Is Why I Love Minneapolis.
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June 18th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
They offered you 36 cents a word? I just got paid for a newspaper freelance piece that amounted to about 23 cents AN HOUR.
You CAN’T be making a living wage doing this. I guess that male modeling must pay pretty darn good.
Not sure which was more surprising: the fact that you used to run the Federal Reserve Bank or that you posted you home phone number and address?
June 19th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Dear Leif,
your countrymen, dog bless them all, big or small, at least those involved in the translating business, have offered me 2 centsUSD! a word for a technical translation!, which, you must admit, requires a great deal more skill than spinning a yarn, especially for one like you, with such a gift for the gab.(gift of the gab?), whatever.
The fact is that they are a tight fisted bunch of bloody c..uckers, meaning no disrespect for those who do it for the fun of it. Ya, and I said bloody. which I cannot say in prissy ProZ, the agency from Syracuse(New York, not Sicily), where, as everybody knows, to utter a profanity like bloody gets you thrown out of town.
36 cents! Wow! 7 centsUSD is the most I got out of american outsourcers!
Your best and oldest fan
Gemma
June 19th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
I’ll take it. I’m just starting so I’ll take anything….
June 20th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Frank – I think anyone that can dial 411 can easily find my address and phone number, but yes, maybe I’ll change that.
Gemma – Welcome to the Society of Over-Qualified and Under-Paid Certified Complainers. I still haven’t received your $200 dues for 2008 though, so you can’t continue to complain until we’ve cleared up that little eventuality.
Matt – I’m sure they’d be happy to hear from you. You have to live in MSP though. Or pretend to. I have a feeling a lot of those little weekend trips are written on the strength of desk research for that kind of pay.