AOL's WalletPop

AOL's WalletPop is seeking freelance writers/columnists to join their team. WalletPop, AOL's personal finance site, is a leading Web site devoted fully to personal finance news and advice. For more information, please contact Beth Gladstone at Beth.gladstone@corp.aol.com for more information. In the email please include a cover letter, resume and recent clips (links.) The beats we are looking for:

*Consumer product safety (covering recalls, scams, fraud, ID theft and other areas)

*Retirement (Columnist)

*Environment/green consumer issues (columnist)

*Editorial Assistant (for SEO production work, writing, video production)

As I said before, AOL pays $25 a post, but more if it is original reporting (up to $100.) It's not a bad gig and I wouldn't suggest any job that I didn't think was a good fit with a healthy, even jovial, online environment.

March Greetings!

Sorry, it's been a while, but I decided to work on things I need to work on. Not that I don't love this blog, but it's just not the moneymaker other things are. (And I'm not saying it's even that much money!)

Freelancing is tougher now, don't think it's not, but there's still some work available, especially online. It's just that you have to get through all the $10/article gibberish to get to something a little more substantial. While AOL offers something like $25 a post, they also offer more depending on original reporting, up to $100. That's not bad for about a posting of about 150 works. (Not quite a $1/word, but it's a steady gig. And I'm not talking about Seed.com.)

Anyway, hope you guys are still with me....will post about my worst interview ever -- with Douglas Copeland -- this weekend