At most fast food restaurants, employees are trained to do more than one aspect of the job. The same employee who handles the drive-thru window could also work the front line or put burgers together. They’re trained to do other jobs within the restaurant because the managers know the benefits of having their employees multi-task. The more productive an employee is, the more profit the company makes in the long run.
Hello Angela,
My friend recommended I contact you. I found a freelance copyediting position (online). I emailed them expressing interest and with some questions about the company and they emailed me back with a sample chapter to edit. All of that is fine. But…
They are a new company, they claim. They didn’t answer any of my questions. I don’t know what the pay rate would be. They don’t have a website, but submissions guidelines are online with an address. When I called information to get a phone number, so I could find out some more about this company before I did any “test” or free editing, the operator didn’t have any company listed.
I’m a little nervous to say the least. I would greatly appreciate you help.
Thank you so much in advance.
J.
Occasionally, I Google my name to check what’s out there. As you know, I don’t write for free, not unless the article has a link to something I want to promote or sell, or unless it’s for charity. Any how, I was gobsmacked to find part of an article I had written for a well-known website back in 2002, published in an online newsletter of a business in Florida! Not only that, but a couple of lines had been added to it and attributed to me.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Gene Papin (https://www.papincraft.biz), who creates neat stuff out of wood. I was especially impressed by his beautiful wooden pens. Well, last week, a nifty package arrived in the mail and I was thrilled to open it and find a notepad that Gene had made with one of his saws. He “engraved” it with my initials and a smiley face with his saw, going all the way through every piece of paper – the entire pad…
This week:
Recently, I attempted to pursue something that has always been important to me…writing. I applied for a freelance job that I actually had quite a bit of knowledge in, but because I had not freelanced before, it was decided I wouldn
It’s interesting that I read last week about having a contingency clause in a pays-on-publication contract because I signed one of those about six weeks ago without that kind of clause. I suppose I naively assumed the article would be published sooner than this fall.
If there is one key piece of advice my editor, Jane Friedman from Writer’s Digest Books, has for writers with a non-fiction book idea, it’s the importance of narrowing a book’s focus before submitting a query. Seven years ago, I didn’t know that I needed to start the nonfiction book pitching process with a simple, narrowly focused query. I made things much more difficult for myself by trying to write the whole book first and then trying to sell it, lack of focus and all.
Lucky Ali (age 16) is in Florida for a 10-day Spring Break trip. She went with a friend and the friend’s family. They have visited Epcot, Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea World, and a few other places. Ali will probably sleep for a week when she returns. She’s having a fabulous time and, while she says she misses her mommy, I know she’s lying.
I’ve chosen to whine long and loud this week about what happened to me last week. My laptop has had an electrical short for the past few weeks. The plug in the back would jiggle loose and I’d lose power. It also sucked the life out of two batteries. Sure, I had every intention of taking it in. But, as long as I could keep jiggling it back into working mode, I figured I could just put it off. Well, on Friday, it died for good. Luckily, I had backed up all my information the night before…
