Erik Sherman, an independent writer and photographer who has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Newsweek Japan, Fortune, Inc, Fortune Small Business, the Financial Times, Advertising Age, Saveur, US News & World Report, and Continental.
When some moron who thinks you were born yesterday suggests this kind of bullshit, because there is no other word for it, say this:
Don’t tell me about getting exposure to a bunch of deadbeat bums like you. Don’t tell me that I can get enough money for hours of my work to buy a pack of gum. Don’t tell me that you might pay me at some time in the future. Pay me for the work you’re asking me to do or go fuck yourself, because I’m certainly not going to let you fuck me.
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Read the whole thing. It’s brilliant.
I highly recommend subscribing to Erik’s blog. Not only because he’s an all-round fab person, but also because he’s one of the very few people I know who are good at the business side of freelance journalism.
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