HolidayWriter
Newbie
- Aug 9, 2018
- 6
- 23
I'm searching for a new job at the moment. The one I have now is making me miserable. I hate waking up, going to sleep and am in a constant state of depression at even the thought of walking into that office. I barely make enough to live which brings me to moving forward.
While I'm looking and applying for new jobs, I'm searching for a side gig. I used to write but all I see out there are vast postings of 40c and 80c articles and people still want samples from them. I do realize that the majority of these postings will deliver spun garbage with no research or effort put into them as well. I also know that with virtually no money to my name, I can't invest in anything to help market myself.
I'm just trying to think of what I could be doing to earn extra money so that I can venture out and get out of this town or branch out and find work outside of this town. I spend barely any money as is and struggle to keep my head above water. I was decent at web development but front end development is even more polluted than the writing scene on all the freelancing avenues.
I checked out sources like /r/beermoney among other freelancing subs and it was a joke. People spend days to get $1 payouts on scummy apps/websites that make you take endless repetitive surveys or watch thousands of ads.
Another roadblock, I have to use invoicing services or anything other than PayPal. That place has become a scammer's paradise and even with evidence of delivery, they generally tend to give sellers the middle finger with what is the most useless support I've ever encountered. I used Stripe for my last days of writing and they were pretty good from my experience.
I have to do something soon and fast. I can't keep sitting around all day doing nothing but dreading going back to work because nothing will change. I don't get paid again until Friday and immediately, half of that check is gone on bills. Something has to change, now.
While I'm looking and applying for new jobs, I'm searching for a side gig. I used to write but all I see out there are vast postings of 40c and 80c articles and people still want samples from them. I do realize that the majority of these postings will deliver spun garbage with no research or effort put into them as well. I also know that with virtually no money to my name, I can't invest in anything to help market myself.
I'm just trying to think of what I could be doing to earn extra money so that I can venture out and get out of this town or branch out and find work outside of this town. I spend barely any money as is and struggle to keep my head above water. I was decent at web development but front end development is even more polluted than the writing scene on all the freelancing avenues.
I checked out sources like /r/beermoney among other freelancing subs and it was a joke. People spend days to get $1 payouts on scummy apps/websites that make you take endless repetitive surveys or watch thousands of ads.
Another roadblock, I have to use invoicing services or anything other than PayPal. That place has become a scammer's paradise and even with evidence of delivery, they generally tend to give sellers the middle finger with what is the most useless support I've ever encountered. I used Stripe for my last days of writing and they were pretty good from my experience.
I have to do something soon and fast. I can't keep sitting around all day doing nothing but dreading going back to work because nothing will change. I don't get paid again until Friday and immediately, half of that check is gone on bills. Something has to change, now.
Like with everything else, quality cost money and if you're good at writing you should build a portfolio. That means basically delivering for a fraction of the price to get a descent portfolio, that's just how it works 
