Category: Humor
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When you tell people you are a freelancer, way too many of them have that image in their brains of you in a hammock in a beach house watching the waves crash in some tropical paradise, drink in your hand idly typing on the laptop across your knees. Yeah, right. Freelancing is a lot of…
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My new client Mat from Upwork need content and blogs for his Seattle-based cleaning business Chore-ology. I pitched him on some humor-driven blogs and he loved the idea. The result put a smile on both of our faces.
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On June 21, 2016, despite protests from all corners, Upwork installed its new pricing scheme, which for every contract less than $500, jumped Upwork’s cut of a freelancer’s earnings from 10% to 20%, while at the same time introducing a 2.75% free for all clients who hire from Upwork. I’ve already extolled the highway…
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Your favorite superhero, Freelancing Dad, had been enjoying his mild-mannered life as a full-time freelancer working for his home office when the phone call came in. Commissioner Gordon? Lois Lane? The President? No, it was the IT director of a pipe company I had ghost-written an article for a year ago with a new project;…
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If you’ve ever read this blog or visited the About Us page, you probably know that Twin Miracles Editorial is so-named because of my lovely twin daughters, who are currently 3 years old. About a year after they were born, I decided to become a stay-at-home, full-time freelancing dad, to spend more time with them…
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OK, technically I wasn’t working WITH Snoopy, I mean he didn’t call me on the phone, come over, or let me join the company softball team – Snoopy is an all-star shortstop if you didn’t know. But my latest project with the very cool Manhattan branding firm Fuse Creative included proofing a script for MetLife’s…
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I was invited to apply for an editing job a few days ago, and the first question asked was “Are you an editing ninja?” Hmmmm. I haven’t known a lot of ninjas in my days on earth, in fact, I can’t say I’ve ever met one. My best friend growing up once bought Chinese ninja…
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Although I’m not a single parent, I do some writing for a site devoted to it. They let me do a little humor writing lately with a piece entitled “Seven Things Only Parents of Twins Understand”
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I like writing about tennis, I love watching (and reading – yep, I know who dies next!) Game of Thrones. Put the two together, and you have my latest blog for TennisNow.com.
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Night time is a freelancer’s Fortress of Solitude. All the setbacks and delays that came during the day can be rectified with few hours on the computer after everyone else has gone to bed – and let’s face it, those days happen all too often. One night last week , I figured I’d have about…
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