| Jobs for college graduates are harder to find than | | | | of my previously written articles for a good example |
| ever. Unless you always dreamed of working at | | | | of my writing talent, proofed it over and over and |
| McDonald's or the Gap, you're probably not going to | | | | finally submitted my application. |
| find that $40,000 per year job your counselors | | | | I expected to wait for days or weeks before I |
| promised you'd find when you enrolled in college. | | | | heard back from the company. So it came as a |
| Disappointed? You should be if you paid several | | | | complete shock when I looked at my inbox half an |
| thousand dollars for a two or four-year degree that | | | | hour later and saw an email from the company. They |
| won't get you any closer to a job in your field than | | | | accepted me almost instantly! Looked like I was set |
| you were before you graduated. I admit, I was at | | | | for a job after all. |
| a loss for what to do myself when I graduated | | | | Next morning, I got up, showered and again sat |
| college. I graduated from a university with my | | | | down at my computer. I opened up the assignment |
| Bachelor's degree in communications and didn't have | | | | desk on the writing company's website, expecting to |
| any prospects for a high-paying job. I was pretty | | | | choose from just a couple assignments. There were |
| much left to find my own way. Sure, I could get | | | | 150,000 writing assignments to choose from! No joke! |
| part-time work that paid almost nothing at my local | | | | This plethora of work possibilities got me thinking - |
| mall, but that's hardly a route I was willing to take as | | | | there must be thousands of college graduates just |
| a college graduate. | | | | like me who need part-time or full-time jobs just like |
| Then a friend of mine (yeah - a real friend, not the | | | | this one. There's no way even 1,000 writers could |
| "made up" kind people use as a reference) told me | | | | ever claim 150,000 writing assignments at a time - |
| about a high-paying writing company online. I could | | | | there's an opportunity here for jobs for college |
| work from home and claim as many job assignments | | | | graduates! |
| as I could handle. I was a little skeptical at first, but | | | | I'm a living example of a successful college graduate |
| as I had nothing to lose, I signed up right away. | | | | who got a job as a freelance writer and loves it. Of |
| My biggest worry was, what qualifications do I need | | | | course, it comes with challenges, but in this economy, |
| to have for this job? I had some previous writing | | | | I'm thankful to wake up to a job every morning. |
| experience at a different company plus some | | | | Here's just a few of the perks I enjoy at the online |
| experience writing for my school, but nothing highly | | | | publishing companies I work for: |
| professional. My friend told me the company was | | | | 1. $1500+ per month |
| really just looking for writing experience in general - | | | | 2. Health and optometry insurance eligibility |
| even if I only had experience blogging. | | | | 3. 200,000+ assignments to choose from daily |
| So I sat down at my computer and punched out a | | | | 4. Recurring income on articles that pay per view |
| résumé in half an hour. I looked through some | | | | 5. |