Misfit Toy,
You are certainly forgiven for not knowing this.
Being an editor at EmpowHER brings in most of my income, writing brings in the rest. It is wonderful
My husband Alan has had FM for almost 27 years, and insisted on working when he could but in the physical labour jobs he had experience in, he just kept crippling himself. He had a brief stint building and promoting websites a decade or so back. We did a little desktop publishing for a bit. We'd had a website called ncubator.com where nobody got paid but 40 people enjoyed writing articles for it anyway.
When I got sick that all stopped though. In 2009, I had seen my naturopath for 2 yrs and was tentatively somewhat healthier. An aunt of Al's had died and left us some money. Al bought me a laptop and we pretended to ourselves that maybe I could make some money writing online. We both knew the chances of this were slim, my experience online was already obsolete and I had no usable resume.
But we also knew that neither of us could stand up in a store, or take cash and make change, for enough hours to make even a pittance at minimum wage. Online writing was our only shot.
It took a couple of years to make enough to live on. Till then we just did the best we could, doing without, incurring more debt wherever and whenever possible and juggling bills. Like we'd been doing for many years already.
For about 3 yrs we have had a living wage, and it has come from writing and editing online.
If you're thinking about writing? I can only say, go for it. You have nothing to lose and possibly something to gain.
You are certainly forgiven for not knowing this.
Being an editor at EmpowHER brings in most of my income, writing brings in the rest. It is wonderfulMy husband Alan has had FM for almost 27 years, and insisted on working when he could but in the physical labour jobs he had experience in, he just kept crippling himself. He had a brief stint building and promoting websites a decade or so back. We did a little desktop publishing for a bit. We'd had a website called ncubator.com where nobody got paid but 40 people enjoyed writing articles for it anyway.
When I got sick that all stopped though. In 2009, I had seen my naturopath for 2 yrs and was tentatively somewhat healthier. An aunt of Al's had died and left us some money. Al bought me a laptop and we pretended to ourselves that maybe I could make some money writing online. We both knew the chances of this were slim, my experience online was already obsolete and I had no usable resume.
But we also knew that neither of us could stand up in a store, or take cash and make change, for enough hours to make even a pittance at minimum wage. Online writing was our only shot.
It took a couple of years to make enough to live on. Till then we just did the best we could, doing without, incurring more debt wherever and whenever possible and juggling bills. Like we'd been doing for many years already.
For about 3 yrs we have had a living wage, and it has come from writing and editing online.
If you're thinking about writing? I can only say, go for it. You have nothing to lose and possibly something to gain.
