Each one paid $125, or less than a week’s groceries, especially if you wanted a dinner at a fine restaurant for me and my wife. Included in those freelance wars was the writing of 500-word historical articles on Southern California. I received a lot of assignments, but the pay was miserable. That included the writing staff, which was me.īecause my finances wouldn’t allow me to retire, although my age had reached common retirement demands, I sought freelance writing assignments. The magazine was sold to a midwestern company and that company was literally cleaning house. It came as a real surprise in a telephone call from a man I didn’t know and had never met. I was fired after working for 27 years as a writer for a statewide magazine that circulated to virtually every farmer in California.
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