“Look, you’ve got to stop harassing me. I’ve got a family to feed. I’m not out buying shoes and getting my nails done. This is my work.”
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Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
“Look, you’ve got to stop harassing me. I’ve got a family to feed. I’m not out buying shoes and getting my nails done. This is my work.”
An irreverent storyteller with a foul mouth and big heart, Kathryn Mayer (aka Kathy and/or Kate) is a writer, humorist, and (former) activist writing out loud with humor and grace about little life moments with big ripples, including the space between parenting and aging parents, social issues, angsty reflections of midlife, and, sigh, gun humpers. Still. Sometimes a big deal, sometimes not Mayer is a national award-winning columnist, according to the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and her essays have been recognized as Voice of … Read More Here...
Waiting to get paid and wondering “if” = stressual harassment
“Look, you’ve got to stop harassing me. I’ve got a family to feed. I’m not out buying shoes and getting my nails done. This is my work.”
Exactly.
freelances are always the last paid and it sucks. I’ve seen freelancers go so far as having to sue to get paid. Scares the crap out of me
And this?
Is why I never ask for money for my work.
Wait . . . what?
Hmmph.
@vanita — getting paid. seems to be paperwork glitch. AND going on payroll so no hassle, no worries!
@kris – you, my dear, should be paid to think.
Stopping by from Java’s hop. I must live in a bubble because I did not realize that a freelance wrier might not get paid. After reading your post, I am glad I am a nurse and my paycheck is automatically deposited, like clockwork, every two weeks.
hi shawn: it’s not just writers: any freelancer is subject to getting stiffed. Contracts are the way to go: 50, 25, 25. On staff now, and life is good. Is there anything better than direct deposit? I THINK NOT!