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LAST TIME ON THE DRUNKEN UNSUCCESFUL FREELANCE WRITERS' BLOG:
(Since most of you are accidental readers than regulars)



Learning to swim with infants?Just who exactly is Mr. Nerd?
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And NOW...150 dollars
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150 bucks.

Go to a Marilyn Manson concert with two of your buds.
Or
Go to Guru for a year of freelance opportunities with two guaranteed bids.*

Relive your 8th grade year(s) or pay someone to read you a list of job listings?

Replace Manson with any other act you'd spend a couple of hours awkwardly dancing in place to, and I believe you have the same option. A brief period of entertainment sans 150 bucks.

I don't even want to give Guru any undeserved plugs. This blog after all is nothing but integrity.
As I sit here enjoying the refined, filling, and smooth taste of a cold Natural ICE, and listening to the hilarious, and uncensored masterpiece radio that is the Howard Stern show on SIRIUS SATALITE RADIO available at any fine Circuit City...the last thing I want to do is whore out this sanctuary of integrity and righteousness with undeserving plugs.

Yet Guru is one of those pieces of shit cannibals that feed on the flesh of the aspiring FREELANCE WRITER.

I have no choice but to briefly explain what Guru is—thereby possibly damning another unsuspecting no-soul into their evil clutches.
During the gold rush it is commonly said, more money was made selling services and merchandise to the miners than was ever made from the gold.
The aspiring Freelancers' drive is such a gold rush. The dogs of capitalism have pounced on the throat of the would be freelancer.

Here we have a service that mimics Ebay. Vendors post up freelance gigs, and "professionals" bid on them. The winner (the one that will degrade himself the most with the lowest price) then finishes the project, and is paid by a 'secure' Escrow account. Guru gets a cut of your pay -up to 10%. Who knew they were managing you?

On a positive note, you might say, it's a small price to pay for the listing of gigs, and you won't get ripped off?

Except, unless you pay a yearly fee, you shouldn't have any worries of being ripped off because you'll never get a job to begin with. All of the job postings are restricted to paying members only. The site does offer a "basic/free" service, but there are no jobs listed for basic members.

The help page offers a solution to find work for *Shivers* free members. Find them by refining you search to individual cities. Even doing that there are no job postings. Going city by city, as I did, I only found ONE POSTING for about three cities. There are no jobs in A through F states except for a few in California-but those were mistakenly posted as they were only accessible to the paying members.

Here is just another wolf in sheep's clothing (to use a cliché that should be publishable by death-WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN) that offers safety and promises of riches on the par of Slot Machines.

If your Rolodex of clients is razor slim, I could see why you might be tempted to fill it up in a slave auction where the slaves come to the master. How low can you crawl? Maybe, depending on their caprice...mA_SA will take you home.

Trust me I know about a slim Rolodex....My biggest clients are students that don't want to write essays, and letters to managers of retail employees accused of stealing four dollars worth of merchandise...not exactly glamorous...or high paying....or ethical...or......maybe legal.

Still don't let your circumstances let you get talked into giving up your money with the promise of getting work as a freelance writer. Maybe you think it's worth a try....THEN keep in mind that it is the roll of a die, a pull of a slot machine lever....it's for entertainment purposes only: not meant to bring in a living. And like a casino if you walk away with a little money, then you had a good day...not a career.

Hell...maybe it's better to go to that MARILYN MANSON show.....because your "not a slave to a God that doesn't exist...or a world that doesn't give a shit."

dont forget....
DRINK UP with Jager, and READ UP with all the fine newspapers from the Journal Register company.

__BetBaR


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