The Matrix: How to Determine Your Worth as a Freelancer
My first real job was in medical publishing.1 At lunch on my first day, one of my new colleagues said something that stuck with me for the rest of my day-job career: No one chooses to work in medical publishing. We all just fell into it. Then he laughed a crazy laugh and ordered a cocktail even though it was just past noon.2
The same is often true for freelance writing.3 Writing for money is often the result of an unexpected turn in our lives. Few writers spend their childhood dreaming of deadlines, complicated tax situations, 4 and writing “content .”
Th at means most of us come to freelance writing woefully unprepared and lacking basic information—like whether you can actually
