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Samantha Skye - Aug 30, 2006 AND Maxwell Griffin - April 14, 2009
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Writing jobs? Editing?
I need a new job. I started out making $15 an hour in 2000. I have gone up to $28 a few years later, then down to $25 (the company had to lower pricing) and now down to $22.50. I have tried to find other jobs in this industry -- closed captioning, but many pay even less $14/hr.
What kinds of jobs are out there for writing and editing that would make $40,000 a year or more and are not hourly?
Samantha Skye - Aug 30, 2006 AND Maxwell Griffin - April 14, 2009
Re: Writing jobs? Editing?
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Technical writing (probably depends on the industry, though).
(I wish I could give you some specific leads; unfortunately, everything I know of right now is hourly, no benefits, and no guarantees of a specific number of hours per week.)
I'd like to second the tech writing. Highest paid gig you can get as a writer.
Also PR involves a lot of writing.
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You could try getting a job as a production editor at a publisher. Some of those still involve proof-reading and copy editing, although this is becoming less common. (They are moving to more of a product management role with proof-reading and copy-editing done by freelancers.)
There are some other publishing jobs that pay more than $40K base salary, but they don't involve editing in the traditional sense, even if editor is in the job title. They might involve a good deal of writing (i.e. some marketing roles, and even some sales roles).
I'm a full-time, permanent, salaried tech writer. If you can write, tech companies want you. There's lots of tech writing jobs out there.
Can't really tell you about the money... I live in Ontario, so the fact that an entry-level tech writer starts somewhere around $37 000 - $42 000 probably doesn't help you much.
A warning, though: tech writing is not the most exciting work you'll ever do. I'm the only writer at my company, so I do marketing writing as well and love that stuff, way more than the release notes and help files I write for the development team.