Some things are hard to find. If you’re a freelancer/business owner/bropreneur/girlboss, you might notice that it’s sometimes hard to find other competent service providers.

It’s a goddam jungle out there.

Perhaps, like me, you lie awake pondering how people manage to be terrible at their jobs. We’re not alone, an owner of a content writing agency was thinking the same, he wrote this on LimpedIn:

“Sometimes here at [INSERT AGENCY NAME], writers don’t work out.”

Occasionally the freelancers this fella hires are, at best, unreliable and at worst, dishonest. These shitheads don’t meet deadlines and they fudge word counts——that blows my mind, I cannot imagine having the brass neck to attempt such a ploy. 

However, I am impressed by the blatant tomfoolery.

It is a little embarrassing to think this nonsense goes on in my profession. I can’t grasp the notion that some people never grow the fuck up. We’re talking here about freelancers——actual business owners who solicit work in the knowledge that they will do the bare minimum. The size of the balls on these people! 

To hear about this agency’s experience is interesting. As a writer, trying to find a decent agency is, yes you’ve guessed it, like looking for a vegan in an abattoir. Quite a lot of the time, these companies are shoe-horning you into the employee mould but without the perks of being one (you know the agencies I’m referring to, they charge peanuts by the hour). I recently saw a job ad from an agency looking for freelance writers. The ad included a list of ideal credentials along with a list of things they did NOT want. Under no circumstances were SEO content writers to apply (sad face). Possibly because we’ve got a reputation for being shit at writing. The other thing they wished to avoid was ‘diva writers’.

Which again, rules me out. I am incredibly demanding. For example, I request all red Smarties be removed before a tube is placed in my vicinity. And if you dare offer me fizzy pop——that isn’t Happy Shopper cola, well, you’ll feel the full force of my divadom.

The inference is that divas don’t work as a team. I was beginning to get serious communist Russia vibes from this ad. Why not just say, “We’re looking for writers to be part of our homogenous proletariat soup of automaton creators.” I’m sure they didn’t mean that but that’s how it came off. Hey, I’m all for mucking in but will it be at the expense of my individual expertise? If so, they may as well type a few commands into an AI bot. I’ve concluded that independent thinking isn’t in short supply, there just isn’t a demand for it.

Maybe one day all the decent writers and the decent agencies will meet.

Fingers crossed.

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Sarah Wilson-Blackwell

I’m a freelance business content writer at The Sarky Type®. My thang is SEO-informed blurb that sets your words on fire (ablaze with LOLs and engagement not to be confused with real fire that destroys everything in sight).

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