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Originally Posted by Mortis
You're making it sound as though going independent and looking for contracts is the worse thing in the world.
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No, it is far from the worst thing in the world and I have been doing it for 27 years. OTOH, it is far from the easiest thing to do in the world and to be successful as a self-employed person you must be very disciplined and you need to look at things realistically, not through rose-colored glasses. $25 per hour sounds great and would be great if you were assured of 35 hours worth of work, 50 weeks every year. The reality is that most freelance editors work fewer hours than that (that is, fewer than 1,750) in the course of a year and that $25 hourly rate really comes closer to $10 an hour.