Elaine says: (10:35:49 AM)
how's the going?
Vince says: (10:36:08 AM)
well i may have only 2 or 3 stories left. maybe i can finish by today.
Elaine says: (10:36:25 AM)
great!
Vince says: (10:36:26 AM)
how abt u.
Vince says: (10:36:36 AM)
im considering taking a look at what's available out there.
Vince says: (10:36:47 AM)
i'd like to know what im worth.
Elaine says: (10:36:47 AM)
u mean...job wise?
Vince says: (10:36:49 AM)
this ain't much of a life
Vince says: (10:37:04 AM)
if i get paid more i can afford my own place and i won't have to be held ransom by cat
Elaine says: (10:37:20 AM)
chuckle
Elaine says: (10:37:27 AM)
ya u shd
Vince says: (10:39:32 AM)
i guess u're quire free now
Elaine says: (10:39:57 AM)
yup
Elaine says: (10:40:03 AM)
finished all my packing
Elaine says: (10:40:07 AM)
ready to zip outta here
Vince says: (10:40:15 AM)
when is ur ORD
Elaine says: (10:40:44 AM)
13 jul
Elaine says: (10:40:46 AM)
whoopee
Vince says: (10:40:59 AM)
that's next fri ?
Vince says: (10:41:04 AM)
got leave?
Elaine says: (10:41:15 AM)
no coming mon
Vince says: (10:41:21 AM)
i am also considering making my own business take off
Vince says: (10:41:28 AM)
freelance copywriting can be quite lucrative
Elaine says: (10:41:56 AM)
u sure?
Elaine says: (10:42:06 AM)
i thot the per word money is poor
Vince says: (10:42:17 AM)
copywriting, not magazine writing
Vince says: (10:42:22 AM)
its a world of difference
Vince says: (10:42:32 AM)
2.5k per ad is good $$
Elaine says: (10:42:40 AM)
ok pardon the ignorance of a layman
Vince says: (10:42:48 AM)
magazine writing pays by words and they have no budget
Vince says: (10:42:58 AM)
advertisers on the other hand ... gold rush
Vince says: (10:43:19 AM)
i used to charge 180 per A4 page
Vince says: (10:43:24 AM)
and that was on the low side
Vince says: (10:43:31 AM)
one ad takes the max 1 hour to do
Vince says: (10:43:38 AM)
so consider my hourly rate 180 baseline
Elaine says: (10:43:41 AM)
wow
Vince says: (10:43:58 AM)
now im more experienced i'll ask for 250
Vince says: (10:44:00 AM)
i only need 4
Vince says: (10:45:20 AM)
i can hook up with my ex boss also ,but i dun really wanna
Vince says: (10:45:27 AM)
i hate her critiques of my work
Vince says: (10:45:31 AM)
i always felt we have different standards
Elaine says: (10:47:47 AM)
yr ex boss from where?
Vince says: (10:48:44 AM)
writers4hire
Vince says: (10:48:48 AM)
the one who trained me up
Elaine says: (10:50:33 AM)
your shi fu
Vince says: (10:57:24 AM)
yea
Vince says: (10:57:29 AM)
at that time
Vince says: (10:57:34 AM)
i didn't know what to do with my life
Vince says: (10:57:40 AM)
i had just come off a very bad break up
Vince says: (10:57:46 AM)
i was giving up film and tv
Vince says: (10:58:21 AM)
writers4hire is made out of 3 people -- the boss, who writes, an account executive who just manages clients, and office manager
Vince says: (10:58:39 AM)
the account exe was going on leave to london or someplace and needed someone to temp for a month to do all the client follow ups
Vince says: (10:58:53 AM)
i knew her previously when she tried to place me as  temp copywriter in an agency
Vince says: (10:59:05 AM)
i didn't get that job, but she asked me to cover her for that 1 month instead
Vince says: (10:59:25 AM)
so i did. during that time the boss asked me to write also
Vince says: (10:59:26 AM)
so i wrote
Vince says: (10:59:41 AM)
turns out she liked my work so much she offered me a full time position
Vince says: (11:00:11 AM)
but paid me by a weird equation: basic of 1.2k + 10% of every job i finish
Vince says: (11:00:15 AM)
so the more work I do the more i get
Vince says: (11:00:20 AM)
my first paycheck was 3.3k