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...knows she's wrong but she can't help herself. She worries her husband is going to leave her for somebody who loves him for who he is and the fact that he doesn't drink and he doesn't beat them and he brings home a good paycheck. So I think it can be toxic in a relationship...
...been sitting on your piece for four? Did you say egomaniacal? What self-respecting egomaniac would put up with the enraging powerlessness of the freelance writer, totally dependent on the whims of half-literate editors for a pathetic drip-drip-drip of income. Oh, for a regular paycheck and health care, so you wouldn't have to suck up to some jerk of an editor for the next mortgage payment. ("Yes, I see. You want it to be iambic pentameter with internal rhymes. I've never read an analysis of the political situation in Pakistan done that way before. What...
...racism. It's not as open and as broad as it was back in the day. And that's why there's not as many of us who step in that position." Each of them has done noble charitable work, but Allen argues that a big paycheck doesn't equate with a platform. "You could have made money picking up roadkill," he says. "Now you have this big company where you've got people all over the world picking up roadkill. You've got $70 million in the bank. That doesn't make you knowledgeable about world hunger." Allen...
...less than $48,000, and they start off at an average of about $32,000. That's what Karie Gladis, 29, earned as a new teacher in Miami. She scrimped for 31⁄2 years and then left for a job in educational publishing. "It was stressful living from paycheck to paycheck," she says. "If my car broke down or if I needed dental work, there was just no wiggle room...
...there’s less stuff on TV,’ but it [the strike] is going on so long because of pure greed.” She firmly believes that writers deserve credit for their work, and that one of the forms that credit should take is a paycheck. “I have to deal with this a little bit in my line of work because of the Internet too, like when I was writing Op-Ed pieces for the New York Times, and they were trying to charge people to read the columns,” Vowell...