Daily Writing Jobs

In life, we have a lot of day-to-day choices to make.  We can fix the car ourselves, or we can hire somebody to do it.  We can fix our plumbing ourselves, or we can hire somebody to do it.  We can learn the intricacies of how to perform a job ourselves, or we can acquire some help so that we can do things more efficiently.  These choices are all a part of our growth as an individual, and our life as a human being.

There is nothing wrong, at all, with the DIY (do it yourself) approach.  In fact, certain personality types compulsively have to do everything themselves — whether it’s because they want to learn a skill, they need to quench their thirst for knowledge, or because they’re of the belief that — if you can do it yourself, there is no reason, whatsoever, to pay for it.  I understand the first two, but I can’t, being a logical-thinking person, understand the necessity to do something just so I don’t have to pay for it.

Now, there is the argument that sometimes you don’t have the money to pay for something — a service, a product to improve your efficiency, or information. And, I wholeheartedly agree that sometimes — you just can’t pay for something — it is physically impossible given your situation.

However, when the argument changes a bit — say, you have the money to pay for something that’ll help, and you’ve clearly demonstrated your inability to do the job effectively in the past, yet you continue on walking the same, unsuccessful path that you’ve been walking for some time now, and hoping for a different result.  That’s almost the verbatim socially-defined meaning of insanity: doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results.

Yes, I am primarily talking about this report and how some writers,  who have a ton of experience under their belt, won’t spend $9, $30, or $100 to break them out of the never-ending path that they’ve been walking.  However, while they won’t spend this marginal sum, comparatively speaking, on a product or service to better themselves, they’ll spend days, or even weeks looking for a single writing gig. Those days and weeks could have been invested in actually doing work and getting paid instead of merely looking for work and going hungry.

If you want to learn the ropes of freelance writing on your own, that’s understandable.  If you want to learn how to find writing jobs on your own, I completely sympathize with that as well — I have the same, “I can do it all myself”, “I want to see how I can improve the system” mentality.  However, in your efforts of self-advancement, don’t be ignorant.  There are plenty of times in life where it’s completely justified to pay for something –  pay somebody to fix your vehicle, pay somebody to change your oil, pay somebody to prepare your complex taxes, purchase a list of updated  paid-survey opportunities, purchase a tutorial on how to improve your website’s SEO, or invest in a membership that’ll  show you how to find writing jobs and make more money as a freelance writer.

My point here is this — don’t spend more time on a necessity than it’s worth.  If you have no money, and no way to obtain it, spending days or weeks to find a writing gig may very well be worth the investment.  However, if you would rather spend time making money than figuring out how to find people willing to pay you for your skills, maybe it’s time to consider a service like Daily Writing Jobs offers — the opportunity to learn the freelance writing trade, and help with finding jobs that’ll pay you, without the steep learning curve.