{"id":6291,"date":"2009-05-23T12:20:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T16:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=6291"},"modified":"2009-05-23T16:57:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T20:57:28","slug":"career-cant-find-a-full-time-writing-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/23\/career-cant-find-a-full-time-writing-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Career: Can’t find a full-time writing job?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Can’t find a full-time writing job?\u00a0 Join the swelling ranks of freelancers”<\/strong><\/a> – http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/news.aspx?id=130597<\/a><\/p>\n

A good article from Medill Reports<\/a> (a publication by students at the Medill School for Journalism at Northwestern University) that cites the somewhat involuntary trend of more and more writers going freelance (and also includes a quote from my brother Greg<\/a> in his capacity as the Director of Membership Services at mediabistro).<\/p>\n

The article’s perspective merges nicely with the JetWit theme of helping freelancers in the JET alum community and also conveying to everyone in the JET alum community that the era of full-time jobs (say nothing of lifetime employment) is changing–particularly in the writing field, but also increasingly in other fields–as more and more people essentially deconstruct their jobs and create new ones for themselves, whether out of necessity or foresight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Can’t find a full-time writing job?\u00a0 Join the swelling ranks of freelancers” – http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/news.aspx?id=130597 A good article from Medill Reports (a publication by students at the Medill School for Journalism at Northwestern University) that cites the somewhat involuntary trend of more and more writers going freelance (and also includes a quote from my brother Greg […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t