Hey you–

You can make real good money at this–some people make .60 – .70 cents a word. I did one for one article that is being published in nw but widely circulated mag

Like anything you start off small–eventually someone offers really good paying job and there you are.

And don’t look back.

I sometiems get tempted, when I am between jobs, to go back to some of the writign mills, but then I realize you kinda get stcuk there.

I currently have a job that pays pretty good and is not research intenisve—

they exists and you can make a living, but for some , not oall fo us, it takes a while to get there…

Hang in there!

Oh and here is a thing that lets you know it is a scam–people who seem tons of samples and stress it had to be original generally do so because they are looking for free content–

I even ran across a guy who didn’t remember me (I remembered him) who had requested content from that that he said he wanted for his sunglasses website.

He used the stuff I wrote –several pages worth of stuff — but I never got paid for it.

The name of the site is Impostor City–do NOT write for him–he will steal your work.

Anyhoo, just keep your antenna up–once you learn who the fakers and shakers are, you land genuine jobs a lot quicker and more often…

Michelle, some of the Craigslist stuff either bounces back or is flagged soon after being posted….

It gets frustrating — but with you being in IT you are in luck–some of the higher paid writing jobs are for people with IT knowledge–how I envy your dual brainedness…lol

Unfortunately scammers are a regular part of our workday. The key is to learn to spot them and work with your own suspicions. This gets easier with time after experiencing a few would-be scammers. While discussing it here with others definitely helps to confirm, having your own instincts is important. In general, if it sounds too good to be true, it just might be. In this case, $200 for a general interest, (400-800 words I think it was) seemed really high, the website in question doesn’t even exist yet (which further makes one wonder how they can afford to pay $200) and it just sounded all around suspect and phoney.

That being said, Roxie’s advice about sending a PDF is excellent. If I am suspicous of a job I also try to send an old sample that is outdated and unlikely to be used (i.e. a product release article from 3 years ago). As it’s been discussed by others–applying first is not always an issue and many times employers don’t review applications for several days anyway.

So that’s my advice, and I’m stickin to it.

I’d love to hear some of you work drop me a line girl!

Dagnabit!

And I thought the same thing regarding the three week period too…I even doubt the website will be called “cool info” of whatever they said.

Sucks how these people try to get over…

But it will come back to bite them because the work, when published, will be stumbled upon by one of the many writers who contributed an they will be exposed…

Thanks again Roxie! MUAH!

I also think that the “three weeks” contact time could be a convenient way for them to count on some writers who submit forgetting about it – because they’ll have so many people who go for the rate and not enough time to probably contact all of them, either to reject of accept. Just thinking out loud.

I’m feeling bummed now. Here’s the thing – to increase your chances at landing one of these jobs, you should apply right away, correct? But, if you do, and then three hours later people say that someone is stealing content, then it might be better to wait a day or so to see what people’s opinions are, right? At that point, though, you’re lost among hundreds of applicants. I know this sounds roundabout, but do you see what I’m asking?

How is it possible to find anything good paying that’s not a scam? Is it possible to make a living at this at all? I’m just feeling dejected about hearing that my stuff is now with a scammer who is going to use it for free. It’s hard to see a writing life that’s not full of $10 articles and ad revenue sites.