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The One Time I Settled To Work For Peanuts
My experiences for a client who couldn’t afford what I thought I was worth and yet I took them in.
Looking at my writing career, the biggest leap in my progress as a writer has been finding work through freelance sites. With the gig economy growing more and more, it’s clear many people want to be living the dream of working from home.
It’s a luxury that is available to every person, but only a few can ever make it.
Why is that?
Because the whole gig economy has a lot of dark undertones to it.
The biggest being people or companies unwilling to pay the workers for what they are actually worth. Letting them work gruelling hours for mere peanuts.
I’ve seen this with my own brothers work where he was stuck as an animator for years as people wanted him to work for cheaper or promise payment based on the product performance (which the games he’s worked on by the way never got off the ground.) However, I’ve also seen it for me where at one point I described the work and my pay to one of my relatives and she said it sounded pretty much like child labour.
