Welp, we’re moving into June and it looks like things are starting to pick up. Although I normally have to scour and overturn every nook and cranny of Craigslist to find jobs (at least it seems so in the past few months) today I was able to find a few great jobs without issue. Are things picking up or am I just getting that good? Let’s find out.

The Freelance Writing Jobs

1. Interviewer – do you live in the New York metro area? Do you have experience interviewing people? Are you familiar with the cosmetics industry? If you said yes to all of those questions, then this is the job for you. Interviews start tomorrow for the perfect interviewer, so hop on this pronto. This job pays $0.40 per word.
2. Romcom script co-writer – this gig could either be a great job or a complete ripoff so let me preface this article by saying that. The posting is short on details so ask specific questions in your letter of interest. You’d be doing punchups on female dialogue, where the writer says he is weakest at writing. This job pays $500–so it had better be 5,000 words or less.
3. Market: The Progressive – left winger? Love to talk about political issues? This is a great market for you. The payouts start at around $500 a pop and don’t stop. Be sure to have well-written and informative articles to submit, because they are not joking around when they say they want quality.

Freelance Writing Job Tip of the Week

I know that I have said this time and time again, but it’s worth repeating: do your own job search too. I know things have been a bit lean in the past month or so, but that’s just for jobs with listed rates. I have found an awful lot of great jobs that don’t post a rate, which you wouldn’t see on this blog. Think of this site as a finely curated list of gigs that you may have otherwise missed, but do your own regular searches too. I know it’s goofy to bring up over and over again, but as a cub writer, I didn’t do my own searches and relied too much on sites. As a result, I know for a fact from other writers that I missed good jobs because I was being lazy. Don’t get me wrong–we have a lot of great info here that you cannot get anywhere else. But jobs? That you can find virtually anywhere.

Worst Freelance Writing Job of the Week

Im looking for a someone to write articles for me in the field of medicine. 
Your English/grammer must be great. 
I would need to see some samples of your work. 
$11/hr. 
Can also work from home. 
part time to full time. 
My goal is to write 500 articles over the next one year.

Remember how I said that I don’t like to list gigs with an hourly rate? Because almost without exception, this is what they look like. Let’s presume that you’d still be working under the same conditions I set out above–it will take you roughly two hours to write these articles. Multiply by four in a regular eight hour work day, then five days a week, then 52 weeks a year. That’s roughly 1,000 articles you can write, which means that working for $11 an hour, HALF your total output would be consumed by this one job. Do you really want your biggest paying client to pay as well as a movie theater or Starbucks? Didn’t think so.

Also, if you’re freelancing and voluntarily working eight hours a day, five days a week, 52 weeks a year, take a damn vacation.

If you’d like to look through longer aggregated lists of freelance writing jobs to help you save time in your job search, All Freelance Writing recommends Anne Wayman’s freelance writing jobs at AboutFreelanceWriting.com.