Thanks guys.

Good luck! I really just fell into the good paying gig, didn’t go looking for it. I feel really lucky that way.

I have started with pretty cheap stuff too, then kept looking and applying, hoping to unload the lower paying ones. Just keeping moving is the thing I can tell you. If you keep throwing out lines and gaining experience, you’ll catch something good.

I’m no freelancing genius – at all – just persistent. And I assume everyone gets lucky now and then.

I also wanted you to know that I got rejected from the today.com blogs. I offered to put up a blog for new parents who are also newlyweds. They emailed me and said they already had enough writers on that topic, so I could either do something else or move on. I’m moving on because I can’t think of something else I’d be really good at. (I bet there are lots of things, but I haven’t thought of anything just yet.)

Your posts stuck out to me–one with the $30 an article pay and another with earning around 1200 a particular month. I’m trying to jump into freelancing. I’ve sent some articles I wrote in college off to a few places (I found via this site and others, but I haven’t heard anything back yet. Come to find out, many were spammers! I recently graduated w/an English degree and writing is my passion. Any advice/websites to go to on landing decent jobs? I’ve seen lots of jobs paying pennies per word and I feel my writing is worth more than that. I saw the great article about setting up a blog/site and I’m looking into that. My email is msluchie@msn.com. Thanks for your help!

@ JackB: I have been looking for leads in your area and will continue to post them when I find them. I hope you will let us know where we can read about your adventures online.

Having gone through an audit simply because the gov’t pulls out so many names at random each year, I would never knowingly give them any reason to come back again. The auditor leaves no stone unturned in his search for hidden income, so (as an example) unless you want to have to explain that the $X dollars you deposited into your chequing account was an anniversary gift from your parents (like we did), I would declare every single penny of income.

Please clarify so we can rectify the problem. PM me at WAHM.

Thanks again.

I report everything I’ve been paid and here is why- Paypal has to report their income. If they were to ever have an in depth audit done and the government tracked the people Paypal was claiming to have done business with and saw you hadn’t declared that income, you could be in a heap of trouble. Who knows what records Paypal is keeping and submitting when they do their taxes!