Chinchilla Bloggers

Scanning Upwork this morning and saw "Chinchilla bloggers needed."

Now I know why it's so hard to get blogging jobs. The chinchillas are taking all of them!

Do you know how many chinchilla blogs there are out there? More than you would think. It turns out that these rodents are voracious readers. The pay offered for this particular post was only $1.20 per 100 words, but chinchilla food and dust for their dust baths doesn't cost very much, so they are probably okay with that.

Chinchillas are extremely cute, but they chew everything. Maybe that's the appeal of having them work remotely. Adorable chinchillas on your Zoom calls but nobody chewing up your computer cords. I don't know.

I am starting to wonder how much competition there is on Upwork. Last week I wrote about babies being hired, and now chinchillas? How many different species am I up against?

Okay, back to work. (Unless you're a chinchilla. Then you should just stick to looking cute and chewing things and leave the writing jobs for the rest of us.)

Sadie

Comments

Wait, What Are You Looking For?

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Although I started this blog recently, the original idea for it came more than a year ago, not long after I started looking for jobs on Upwork. This was how the post began. "I want an experienced writer who is interested in pizza cooking. You'd better have 1-year experience on pizza cooking." You'd better have one year of experience cooking pizzas? Is that meant to sound like a threat, because it sounds like a threat. Don't come to me with ten months of pizza-baking experience and think I won't know! I mean, STOP WASTING MY TIME! Luckily I haven't encountered any other pizza-baking, cookbook-creating potential employers using strong-arm tactics since.

The One That Got Away

I recently applied to and did not get a position posted for a "retro candy blogger." I honestly don't think I have ever been so disappointed by not getting a job. If I'm being honest, though, I really just wanted it so that I could eat candy at my desk all day and say I was doing research. If my kids tried to talk to me I could say, with a mouthful of jelly beans, "Don't interrupt me! CAN'T YOU SEE I'M WORKING HERE?!" I mean, I do that now anyway, but it's considered "bad parenting" instead of "a good work ethic."

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