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"Hiring Freelance writers for a long-term project" (sm) - Rose

Posted: Mar 22, 2014

Is this a joke or have the MTSOs given us a reputation for low-income-workers?!?!?!? This job is to research products and write a 40 page review for .10 cents per review?!?!?! You can write up to 50 reviews a day. Wow! 5 bucks a day!

You have it incorrect - it is 40 WORD answers, up to 50 per hour - SSE

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I agree with you that this is still not a great paying opportunity, but please pay attention to the ad! It could be something that benefits people in their spare time, waiting for work. The ad states that an experienced writer can do about 50 ads per HOUR, not per day, and not that they are 40 pages. That is a little ridiculous.

But it still adds up to 5 dollars an hour. NM - Jackie

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nm

I contacted them, and . . . - MsMT

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they sent me a few to do. It's pretty simple, but then I thought, "What am I DOING??!!" There is no question that $5.00 an hour is ridiculous, and that's for working very quickly to get in 50 answers within that hour! MT rates are already extremely low (and insulting) for what we do, and I refuse to prostitute myself even more.

reply to "HIRING FREELANCE..." - ANON

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I believe the ad stated 40 WORDS per review..not PAGES.. However, when I "did the math" I also broke out laughing!! No matter how I computed it, that still only worked out to $5 an hour. BIG WOOP-DE-DOO!!!

Sorry, I typo'd the 40 pages that should have been "reviews". (nm) - Rose

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