Just got an email from a prospective gig that greeted me by name and as though I had applied for a position with them but it isn’t really ringing any bells. It seems like a decent enough gig, posting social media and website stuff, but it also feels like a cold pitch to try and get me to subscribe to something in the hopes of getting gigs.

Believe it or not, there are entire websites that lure people in with the prospects of consistent, lucrative gigs, as long as you are willing to pay a monthly fee to have access to their job board. There are enough outside, impartial reviews of these places to show them for the scam that they are, or how truly ludicrous your acceptable pay rates have to be for consistency. Sure, they can get you some work, but you’ll have to be willing to do it for next to nothing.

There are entire countries that can serve as living content farms and will work for a few dollars a day, but I’m not in one of those and value my time way too much to give it away for that little. I respect the people who churn out garbage for slave wages all the same, though. What they are doing is exactly what I’m doing, but their lives are so necessarily different that they can afford to take the pennies on offer. There are times that I churn out what I consider to be garbage for a fair rate and I can’t help but feel like I’m getting away with something in the process. I wonder if people in other countries feel the same way when they create? Some things feel like they are universal and that seems like a natural candidate to me.

I responded to the email and asked where/when I applied for this position to refresh my memory and to see if it’s legit. If it seems like it might be I’ll see if it leads anywhere as a way to add a revenue stream to my work load. Fingers crossed but I’m not holding my breath.