Maybe by the end of the week? 1,200 words? We unfortunately can’t pay you for it...
No doubt The Atlantic editor screwed up, but doing it right still would have payed Thayer nothing. Tough to make a decent living as a digital freelancer, and tough to run a digital shop that relies on freelancers.
When I think back on the magazine world I came up in it seems like a dream.
You don't have to go back that far.
When I think of the money I made in college and for years after freelancing it already seems like a dream, and it was only like a decade ago.
Posted by: Joe Killian | Mar 06, 2013 at 04:08 PM
No doubt, although I'm going beyond living wages to a certain glamour and the sheer volume of cash flowing through those organizations. Even the trades used to routinely send freelancers traveling on assignment, all expenses paid. It was never a way to get rich, but there were perks.
Posted by: Ed Cone | Mar 06, 2013 at 04:26 PM
Yeah. I missed all that stuff.
Posted by: Joe Killian | Mar 06, 2013 at 05:05 PM