Pen for Hire
Programming break: I'm available for all your writing needs!
If you are a paying subscriber, a lot of essays are heading to your inboxes soon! (Topics include beauty, scarves and chain restaurants in Rome!)
If you are not a paying subscriber, now would be a really great time to become one! Not only am I running a sale if you click this link,1 I could really use the financial boost.
Last Friday I unexpectedly lost my job after five years. It’s a long, incredibly dumb story (short version: always make sure you aren’t replying-all without knowing it), but the good news is that I didn’t lose my job because I was drinking and I didn’t drink because I lose my job. I’m not thrilled at the prospect of unemployment, but I was ready to move on to something new, and now I am being forced to do so.
I am sending this public announcement of unemployment for several reasons:
To nudge you into subscribing if you’ve been on the fence. This whole project ends in three months, and a lot of content is rolling out soon! (Now that I’m not working unpaid overtime every week, I can finish all my unfinished and backlogged writing. Everything will be caught up in two to three weeks.) Have questions about how paid subscriptions work? There’s an extensive FAQ.
To let you know I am available for all your reportorial freelancing needs. If you’re an editor who needs quick-hit (remote) legislative coverage, I can do that! If you want coverage of something else within a 2-3 hour radius of Chattanooga, I can drive there!
To inform you about my other writing experience. For the past five years, I have worked as a copywriter for a healthcare marketing company with major hospital clients. I specialized in SEO-friendly website content and blog posts designed to increase traffic, but I also wrote targeted email and direct mail campaigns, landing pages and downloadable guides, and articles for custom print magazines. I even ghostwrote columns and LinkedIn posts for top hospital executives. I can literally write whatever your business needs. Open for one-time assignments, ongoing contract work, you name it.
To encourage virtual networking (ugh). Look, I know LinkedIn is one of the worst places on the internet, but it’s unfortunately necessary for finding a job these days. If you are on LinkedIn and know me IRL, please add me as a contact. If you’ve worked with me, please leave me a reference. They allegedly help.
To tell you to hire me. I would love a full-time remote or hybrid job reporting or copywriting. I am open to moving to certain cities (and I do not want to stay in Chattanooga). I need to make enough money to afford rent in that city as a single person, so I’m not cheap (but I am worth it)!
To beg for money. Seriously, please subscribe. Writing is time-consuming work. If you like reading my words, please pay me. Don’t want to deal with Substack? Venmo me, and I will add you to the subscriber list.
I am working on a new portfolio site with professional clips and case studies and all that fun stuff. In the meantime, if you’re interested in my professional services and would like examples of my professional writing, just reach out — I can send you many, many links. I am currently not looking for other types of work beyond freelancing or a full-time writing job, but if I’m still un(der)employed after my unemployment checks run out later this spring, that may change.
As always, thanks for all you support. I love all my readers, and if you can’t afford to subscribe, you can’t afford it. I’ve been there (and I guess I am again there?), and I get it.
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