The Age of the Online Writer: Opportunity or Risk?

The Age of the Online Writer: Opportunity or Risk?

Being a writer isn’t the easiest of professions. It has certainly always been difficult to find your start and get experience. As a recent graduate with a Major in Professional Writing, I found that suitable, advertised jobs were rare. Most organisations asked for a minimum of five years of experience and I found myself in a cyclical 'chicken and the egg dilemma' - how do I get experience to get a job when I need a job to get experience? Thinking about it too much is hazardous to your health and very demoralizing.

However, in the past few years alone, both employee and employer have discovered that they can advertise paid and unpaid jobs on the internet and not just with conventional job-seeking websites like seek.com or jobsguide.com.au. Websites like freelancer.com and odesk.com provide opportunities to bid for jobs against other writers while professional social networking sites like linkedin.com can provide avenues to network. As amazing and wonderful as all this sounds, the online sphere is full of risks as well as opportunities that every writer needs to consider

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