I feel as if this week was a perfect example of how much I was missing when I was playing recluse for the past year. (The positively balmy weather didn’t hurt.)
On Tuesday, I went to the #nyblogout — a happy hour for NYC dating bloggers — and met a few people I had previously only known online. On Friday afternoon, I went to an open dress rehearsal for Armida at the Metropolitan Opera, and then went to a Ben Folds concert in the evening. And today, I went to the local university to rehearse a choral piece an old high school friend had composed for his grad school recital. It felt good to get away from the computer screen.
But I was still accomplishing things as well. I launched my new web platform (with the help of my web developer husband). I had a final appointment with my very first career coaching practicum client. I came that much closer to finishing up an ongoing copywriting project. And I might be heading up an exciting new project at the web magazine where I work part-time.
But somehow, with everything that was going on, I still managed to read some pretty terrific articles around the web:
- The Freelance Writing Jobs Network’s Seven Reasons Writers Don’t Get the Better Paying Writing Jobs
- Heather Huhman’s Unpaid Internships: The Fair Labor Standards Act Doesn’t Go Far Enough
- Freelance Folder’s 7 Ways To Identify and Market the Uniqueness of Your Freelance Business
- BusinessWeek’s The Job Satisfaction Paradox for the Self-Employed
- Mashable’s Top 5 Ways To Make Your Site More Fun
- Copyblogger’s Six Questions To Ask for Powerful Testimonials
- Living In Place’s Work Isn’t Supposed To Be Fun
- Lauren Novo’s Why Blog for Free?
- The Freelance Writing Jobs Network’s Will Funny Get You the Freelance Writing Job?
- Freelance Folder’s How To Ask for a Referral Without Sounding Like a Jerk
- Daily Finance’s Atlantic Publisher Takes Stand on Intern Pay. Who Will Follow?
- GlassDoor’s How To Not Burn a Bridge When You Quit a Job
- Diesel Sweeties’ comic about writers
- Marian Schembari’s I Still Hate Internships, But Sometimes Free Is Smart
- The Coachella Review’s The Payoff Will Be in Good Karma
- Ms. Career Girl’s How 8 Months of Unemployment Turned Out To Be a Blessing in Disguise
- WordCount’s Q&A with Marla Beck, Life Coach for Writers
- Design Informer’s What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Freelancing
- Business Insider’s AOL’s Content Strategy Is Still a Mess
- Gawker’s Conde Nast and the End of Magazine Jobs
- Inkygirl’s Twitter Chats for Writers
- Ms. Career Girl’s 10 Guerrilla Job Search Tactics That Work
- Fortune’s 7 Tips for Shy Job Hunters
- Writing Roads’ Back-Up Plans, Face Plants and Rice
- Marian Schembari’s What People REALLY Notice About Your Blog
- The Urban Muse’s 10 Things You Should NOT Ask a Freelance Writer
- Edelman Digital’s Practical Guidance on Blogger Disclosure and FTC Guidelines
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