{"id":357,"date":"2007-10-12T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2007-10-12T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T16:18:00","slug":"fessing-up-about-finances-over-at-nytimes-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/10\/12\/fessing-up-about-finances-over-at-nytimes-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fessing Up about Finances over at NYTimes Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/Rw-Rf0klvtI\/AAAAAAAAAjg\/vezBRFmWXso\/s1600-h\/images-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/Rw-Rf0klvtI\/AAAAAAAAAjg\/vezBRFmWXso\/s200\/images-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In response to Shifting Careers blogger Marci Alboher&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/shiftingcareers.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/10\/even-academics-can-be-free-agents\/\">recent profile<\/a>, a reader wrote in to ask how free agents&#8211;like me&#8211;make ends meet.  Do we have inheritances? Divorce settlements? Lottery winnings?  Would that it were true!<\/p>\n<p>Marci posted my response today, <a href=\"http:\/\/shiftingcareers.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/12\/how-do-they-pay-their-bills\/\">here<\/a>, and I thought I&#8217;d expand on it a bit.  I earn my living freelancing for magazines, writing books, giving talks, consulting for organizations, and teaching (sign up for my <a href=\"http:\/\/girlwithpen.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/announcing-fall-webinar-making-it-pop.html\">online course, &#8220;Making It Pop: Translating Your Ideas for Trade&#8221;<\/a>!).  You could say I live a life of improv.  I don&#8217;t always know where a venture is leading me, but I&#8217;ve learned to have tremendous faith in the journey and to trust my instincts.  It&#8217;s been well worth the ride so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Shifting Careers blogger Marci Alboher&#8217;s recent profile, a reader wrote in to ask how free agents&#8211;like me&#8211;make ends meet. Do we have inheritances? Divorce settlements? Lottery winnings? Would that it were true! Marci posted my response today, here, and I thought I&#8217;d expand on it a bit. I earn my living freelancing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21941],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}