Friday, September 12, 2008

Is there a way to get a freelance writing job under 18yrs old


Is there a way to get a freelance writing job under 18yrs old?
I am 16 years old and I am looking for a job ONLINE that I could write for. Something like www.demandstudios.com (which I would apply at, but it says you must be at least 18 years of age). So does anyone know of a site that I could write for via online and get paid for it, even though I am 16?

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There are lots of potential hurdles for minors in work, many of them legislative, parents and guardians need to be careful about that. There is lots of help from the resource in the box below on this topic, they also have help for all people who are hunting for work, or who need to change careers.
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• AlpineAccess.com - Virtual call center provider using home-based customer service agents. They charge $45 for a required background check. • Arise.com - Answer calls, e-mail and chat requests for global companies at home. Some users have reported a $13 background check fee, a $99 assessment test fee and other charges. • ConvergysWorkatHome.com - Be a home agent providing customer care, human resources and billing services • IntelliCare.com - Call center company that provides clinical and non-clinical telephone services to health plans, healthcare providers, and care managers nationwide. Anyone who is not a qualified nurse needs to work at one of their their bricks-and-mortar call centers, not from home. • LiveOps.com - Virtual call center using remote and home-based agents. All applicants are required to undergo a mandatory background check that costs $50. For an optional fee of $175, a more extensive background check allows you to work with specific Fortune 200 companies that have partnered with LiveOps.com. You also have to install a second, dedicated, telephone landline for this work -- only to be used for LiveOps work. • MSVAS.com - This company has developed virtual assistant training programs for U.S. military spouses and U.S. Department of State Foreign Service spouses • TeamDoubleClick.com - Be a virtual assistant • WAHM.com - An online magazine for work-at-home moms • West.com - Be an "at-home-agent," with duties including obtaining, entering and verifying customer information, answering questions, resolving issues, explaining sales features or offering additional products or services • WorkingSolutions.com - Be a home-based customer service agent • WorkplaceLikeHome.com - An active discussion forum where you'll discover lots of job leads One bit of advice before you take the leap into a work-at-home opportunity: Take an inventory of your talent, add a dash of creativity to your thinking and come up with a plan that suits you. • If you sew well, do alterations for others. • If you have a good grasp of a particular subject, tutors are always needed. • Good with a computer? Consider teaching others how to use one. You might also want to do computer work for college and graduate students. Try putting up flyers around your area as well as the local colleges and universities. • Create personal websites for friends and neighbors. Parents might want to purchase one from you as a gift for a child. It can used for photos and 'firsts' as the child is growing. This makes a great gift to the parents of a newborn! • Are you handy with crafts? Costume jewelery making and selling can be aimed at school-aged girls or adults, and all well-priced gift items sell well especially before the holiday season. The list can go on as long as you align your talents with services or products others need. Be imaginative and create a job! If you choose to go the standard work-at-home route, heed warnings from the Federal Trade Commission and the Better Business Bureau. Also theres a link on my profile on getting paid to write.
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To work as a freelancer what you do is 1. Find a topic that you want to write about. 2. Find magazines that might want to publish your article 3. Write to the editor and pitch your idea (email them) 4. If they say yes, go and write the article. When you start out you might write the article first before pitching the story. You can write for a lot different things, from street press, magazines, newspapers and so on. The media has reduced its full-time staff considerably so there are many more opportunities in this area. Also, you can resell your articles in many different districts (states, countries etc), so the money can be very good. There are places online that act as agents, such as http://www.suite101.com/ but most writers wouldn't such sites or use agents, but others find agents very useful. Sorry, this is a fairly complex issue, you may want to try and find some books on freelance writing and selling your work.
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you can find it in tools on this website http://bsfinance.notlong.com/3AAEGxz
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The safest and realist freelancer site odesk.com/referrals/track/kmohamedessam



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