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My Industry is Failing: Writing Edition with Jennifer Romolini

Work Appropriate

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The Importance of Precarity

The first time I got paid to write for the internet, it was $100 and I was like, this is the best thing that's ever happened to me in 2012 dollars. In 1970s dollars, 50 years ago, we made nothing, $500 an article. And so I think if your desire and your deepest desire in your life is to be a creative person, then you need to get comfortable with precarity.

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