Amy Einsohn
"Why Editorial Freelancers Need to Build Their Own Career Ladders
(and How to Do It)"
Editorial freelancers who intend to remain freelancers for the
indefinite future must address the psychological and financial aspects
of long-term self-employment, including the needs for career
satisfaction, for increasing income, and for retirement planning. These
goals, Amy explains, cannot be reached simply by raising one’s rates.
Instead, freelancers must look for ways to improve and diversify their
skills and, if possible, escape per-hour or per-page wage scales.
Amy Einsohn is the author of The Copyeditor’s Handbook: A Guide for Book
Publishing and Corporate Communications, now in its second edition
(University of California Press, 2006). Amy has worked as a freelance
editor and writer in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1980. She has
taught editing workshops for the University of California Berkeley
Extension and for Editcetera
(a Bay Area editorial co-op) and has conducted training sessions at
Banana Republic, Bank of America, Stanford University, and Wells Fargo.
