By Robert Palmer I’ve struggled with severe anxiety and depression over the years. For me, it’s been something that I can control fairly well. However, when I jumped into the world of a professional chef, those fronts I put up in every other place of work ceased to exist. Anxiety and depression hit me hard. […]
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Don’t Quit Your Day Job: You Can Freelance and Still Work Full Time
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By Sarah Ratliff I was raised by parents who lived through the Great Depression. My father was born in 1923, before it began, and my mother was born in 1933, as it was well underway. In both instances only their mothers were able to hold on to their jobs. My paternal grandmother was a schoolteacher […]
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Is Your Proposal Worth the Price?
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By Angie Nelson When it comes to freelance writing, one of the largest components of your business is in writing proposals. Doubtless, you spend a good portion of your time as a freelancer crafting proposals, be they responses to requests for proposals (RFPs), proposals for bidding sites, queries to magazines, or another form of proposal. […]
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When One Door Closes Another One Opens — But the Hallway Sure Sucks!
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By Kelly Robbins Whenever you step into a new phase of life; from having a baby to working from home rather than in a corporate job, there is a transition period. The transition is that period between leaving your J-O-B and actually supporting yourself in your new business. The initial bliss of having a new baby […]
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5 Ways LinkedIn can Fast Track Your Work-at-Home Career
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By Erica Breuer Ah, LinkedIn. When you’re new to the networking game, LinkedIn might look like the starched white shirt of social media platforms —a whole lot of “blah,” zero fun, resume website. The reality: LinkedIn can be the casual Friday happy hour piece of your career strategy; the place where you connect with people […]
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15 Tips for Getting Hired, Fast
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By Holly Reisem Hanna Finding a work at home job can be very time consuming. Not only do you have to weed through the scams and sift through the various job sites to find the opportunities, but you need to make sure that the job is a good fit. Add in time for networking, polishing […]
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How to Avoid Resistance
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By Kelly Robbins “There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.” That quote is from a book by Steven Pressfield, called The WAR of ART. […]
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How to Be Fairly Paid as a Freelancer
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By Yohana Petrovic Has the siren call of the flexibility and autonomy of a freelancer’s life gotten to you? If it has, and if you have already ventured into those rough but exciting waters that make up a freelancer’s journey, you now know how easy it is to underbid yourself just so that you can […]
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Reach Out and Help Someone Through Your ‘Encore’ Career
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By Mark Feffer Are you thinking the time has come to make a change, to get off the corporate treadmill and go to work doing something you love, with a chance to give back to the community? You’re not alone. An increasing number of workers in their 50s and 60s are eschewing the idea of […]
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Tips To Becoming A Successful Freelance Writer
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By Gary Dek So you like to write, and you’ve been hearing so much about people quitting their day jobs and making a living off of freelancing. Why can’t you be one as well? You already know you can write and that you love doing it, so what’s stopping you? Truth to be told, there’s […]