How has commercial freelancing compared to writing magazine articles?
Many high-tech trade journals have no freelance budget and don’t pay at all, because vendors and analysts, eager for the exposure, fall over each other to contribute articles for free. So, I never believed I could make a living that way. However, I’m making a very good income ghostwriting magazine articles for corporate clients. These folks aren’t looking to make money from article placement; they’re trying to boost their exposure and credibility in order to land clients. If a client thinks an $80K account might result from placing an article, then paying me $1 per word for the 1600-word article that may help close that sale is nothing. How did you juggle two jobs, parenthood and everything else? I cut back my staff job to part-time and I made sure I spent lots of time with my son, but as I got busier and busier and didn’t drop my other commitments, I ended up with the world’s worst anxiety attack! Once I got a clean bill of health, I wised up, cleared the decks, and life is good again
