This is a little article occasioned by the impending closure of "Guru.com," a freelancers' network I looked into a year or so ago and actually joined. It didn't lead me anywhere, but apparently some folks were relying on it for a substantial amount of their leads. It raises some interesting big-picture questions. A lot of us, particularly in the tech sector, have been encouraged to "go freelance" in this market, since the hiring by and large isn't there. If the problem is that the work isn't there, though, doesn't that make "freelancing" a synonym for "unemployed?"
So Much for the Freelance Economy
This is a little article occasioned by the impending closure of "Guru.com," a freelancers' network I looked into a year or so ago and actually joined. It didn't lead me anywhere, but apparently some folks were relying on it for a substantial amount of their leads. It raises some interesting big-picture questions. A lot of us, particularly in the tech sector, have been encouraged to "go freelance" in this market, since the hiring by and large isn't there. If the problem is that the work isn't there, though, doesn't that make "freelancing" a synonym for "unemployed?"
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Story update things
For those of you who (a) aren’t following and (b) care, I’m using my FA account more, and have added a couple new…
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"Narrow Road" PDF available
For those interested, I uploaded my story "The Narrow Road in Morning Light" to FurAffinity. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2032863 There's…
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Quick self-promotion
It occurs to me that I never mentioned that I have two stories nominally eligible for the Ursa Major Awards this year: “The Narrow Road…
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