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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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New Word Rates In Journalism: 60% of 1 Penny

Job Description:
• Write articles (20 articles within 5 days).
• Min 500 words for each article.
• This project should be completed within 5 days.
• You only will be pay total of $60USD upon completion of all articles.
• 100% correct punctuation and grammar!

That's 10,000 words. (To be written in five days.) For 3/5ths of 1 penny per word. Is this Dickens?

14 Comments / Post A Comment

DoctorDisaster
DoctorDisaster (#1,970)

Be sure to use 100% correct punctuation and grammar, or the people who will be pay you might change their minds!

NicFit
NicFit (#616)

I will be pay .5 cents per word if I'm be paid in advance.

gotham
gotham (#1,572)

you forgot to mention "Individual keyword density must be between 2% to 2.5% (keywords will be provided)"

Rw
Rw (#1,458)

Holy shit! writers will be out of jobs once the cabal of folks who own most of the Mags and Papers are successfully able to train Mexican 5 year olds to write the type of bullshit that sells rags... this, I bet, is not too far off I think the Washington Examiner already does this.

Kevin
Kevin (#2,559)

Seems high to me.

garge
garge (#736)

Really? I thought it was a great compromise--

Kevin
Kevin (#2,559)

+100

Brad Nelson
Brad Nelson (#2,115)

The future is so bright, I have to write for free.

KarenUhOh
KarenUhOh (#19)

500 words way too much.

josh_speed
josh_speed (#97)

Dickens knew he at least had a readership.

HiredGoons
HiredGoons (#603)

At least it's not in tuppence.

GiovanniGF
GiovanniGF (#224)

This post was 65 words (not including the headline), for a grand total of 39 cents. Which is probably not bad in a country such as Sierra Leone.

karen
karen (#3,098)

Do people actually take these jobs? I see rates like this quite often so it seems as if people actually accept them.

lexalexander
lexalexander (#2,960)

What a douchebag. I e-mailed him explaining his douchebaggery to him and cc'd my blog so that maybe fewer poor suckers out there will try to take people like him up on shitty offers like this.

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