Freelancing really isn’t that great
The Australian on freelancing in Australia… As the story says, the Canberra Times pays not much more than 10 cents a word - that’s for in-depth science reportage and light-hearted music/arts stories. In music writing it’s even worse, most of the good magazines are entirely voluntary, which is understandable, but even the commercially successful mags stop returning your emails when you ask about payment, while music websites pay their sales staff corporate wages while keeping their editorial staff on incomes that’d make your local check-out staff blush.
The only way is to get a proper job and do the other stuff as a sideline, or even better, start your own zine/ezine/blog/whatever.
feeling the squeeze dude?
c.biz
26 Nov 05 at 2:51 pm
indeed chaunce, maybe i’ll go into plumbing or bricklaying?
calico
27 Nov 05 at 2:36 am
Or both!
Euan
7 Dec 05 at 4:45 am
i temped at MTV UK for two weeks installing computers. every second person with a media related role was on work experience. so in a way, janitors were making more money.
great job though, did nothing. very much in the “corporate cool” style of workplace, with fuzeball tables, free fruit, TVs everywhere and everyone being young and beautiful. I spent more time watching Wimbledon there than doing any work.
gravy
7 Dec 05 at 6:17 pm
what a lovely picture, true though. media’s not something you buy your first mansion with, well not unless you’re running the shop (or fixing the computers). i’ve been temping as a sub for the past few weeks at 3D World and FPC Courier. not too much in the way of fuzeball, fruit or tvs though.
calico
8 Dec 05 at 1:54 pm