What do you do for a living?

PostPlanter · 2024-12-02T22:57:23+00:00

My job is to help create topics in Community, but one day I hope to grow up and be a sysop. What about you, what do you do?

DuncanThePig

Not sure at the moment. I can write but I've had barely any work lately.

Sang

DuncanThePig I relate. It's impossible to work in costumes unless you live in top major cities. Started pursuing building costumes on Upwork, remotely making someone costumes poses many more problems^^; So I put a pause to it. What kind of writing do you specialize in?

DuncanThePig

Sang What kind of writing do you specialize in?

Technical B2B content about SEO/digital marketing. AI may have taken over but my clients are the type that want more than AI can deliver, Whatever the reason - it seems demand has dried up almost completely.

At least I know a thing about online marketing which will hopefully help me create another income. I think I'll still be writing but for myself (on a different topic) instead of clients.

Sein

Sound Engineer with a background in audio editing, mastering, music production, technical support.

Marko B

Elementary school counselor as full time job and audio editor as part time on odesk/upwork over a decade, and so far mostly worked on audio books (300+ tittles) and some of podcasts.

JessicaKay

DuncanThePig This is so interesting! I'm a writer as well and I've been having the same thoughts--to write for myself and monetize that so I don't need to depend on clients.

What's your plan? I've thought about blogging and then building systems around that to bring in income. Share if you want!

Melissa R

I'm a fiction writer with a background as a novelist. I freelance mainly as a screenwriter and story development specialist for film and TV series projects. I write in most genres, though I must confess Sci-Fi is my jam.

Tiffany

Mostly ghostwrite for attorneys and legal tech executives. In season, I also do law school admissions consulting.

Alexandra

I founded my business as a sole proprietor in 2013 to focus full-time on linguistic services. (So I'm actually listed as a trader in crafts and trades in my country, LOL.) I offer AV transcription, subtitling, translation (general, technical, fiction), machine translation post-editing and translation reviews for English (UK, US) and German (DE, AT).

PS: I love the look of this forum! It is such a lovely 'clean' design. (The progress bar, 'x of y posts', is nice!)

DuncanThePig

JessicaKay What's your plan?

Building luxury vivariums housing exotic pets. I already have a collection of isopods, some rare, that are in demand. Once I have enough I can start selling them, which is where my marketing background will hopefully come in. It might seem like a weird leap but I've always had a passion for 'creepy crawleys' and nature in general so it makes sense for me.

JessicaKay

DuncanThePig This.is.AWESOME!!! Best of luck to you!

Sang

DuncanThePig I know a bit about this niche interest through my husband and it seems like there is a huge audience/market out there right now like you said- YouTube and Instagram accounts focusing on this topic are doing well but good content is still rare enough, if you ever want to tap into those channels while blogging..!

DuncanThePig

Sang

Thank you, I'll bear it in mind.

It's good timing for me in a way because keeping isopods etc. is relatively new. So, while there's a lot of video content out there, there's a dearth of written content. I'm having to learn a lot by trial and error but this is letting me create fresh content that isn't just re-written from other content on the net.

AI written content is poor now but it will continue to improve ever closer to human writing standards. But it will always be limited in the sense that it's basically a souped-up search engine that can only create content from other content that already exists. AI will never be able to replace direct hands-on experience from a human perspective and I intend to take full advantage of that.

Sang

DuncanThePig very true. Hope you keep pursuing this direction, as authentically creative human content is always lacking, and that is what we all are looking for.

Pat M.

MsWiggy Hi Mary! Hope you're well.

MsWiggy

Pat M.
I have to be well! Too many people depending on me to be anything else.

Pat M.

MariaT Sounds like fun, but I bet as with everything that it has it's "moments."

Ravi

Hey, Pat!

Pat M.

Ravi Hey Ravi! 🙂

Sein

Pat M. hi Pat

Pat M.

Sein

Sein Hi. Did we communicate in the Upwork Community?

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