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Hey /lit/, just got my diploma in the mail. How do I get a job as a writer?

>> No.12587063

Dean's signature is a fuckin joke. Return the diploma and ask for a new one.

>> No.12587065
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>>12587052
>kansas

>> No.12587110

>>12587063
Beat me to it. First thing I noticed

>> No.12587134

>>12587065
enjoy your overcrowding and crime and homeless people and housing costs in whatever big city you live in

>> No.12587145

>>12587134
Can I move in with you? I like Kansas. :3

>> No.12587147

>>12587134
>t. flyover state nobody
additionally coulda tried harder to go to a better school

>> No.12587157

>>12587147
>flyover
Yes, all of our problems fly over on their way to california and new york

>> No.12587176

>>12587052
Congratulations! :)

As for the whole job part, really just try and hit the pavement and proactively search. The jobs are out there, just hard to find. What kind of writing do you want to do, though?

>> No.12587179

>>12587134
the mafia keeps the riffraff out of my area

>> No.12587196

>>12587052
yikes
i don't think its worth going to uni to major in english from such a bad a school.

>> No.12587204

>>12587052
What a shitty signature. Literal fifth grader penmanship.

>> No.12587214

>>12587196
>bad school
Why is it bad?

>> No.12587215

>>12587052
Time for grad school.

>> No.12587230

>>12587215
What the hell would I do in grad school? Get a PhD in English?

>> No.12587269

>>12587052
why the fuck are there so many fucking kansas fags in /lit/? i mean fuck i am in k state but was in stem

>> No.12587292

>>12587269
I've heard an unusual amount of poets come from Topeka.

https://lithub.com/is-topeka-the-most-poetic-city-in-america/

>> No.12587317

>>12587292
I read an article last year that people in the MO-KS area started writing poetry for pickle jars people kept leaving on the highways.

>> No.12587347

>>12587292
you can fuck right of Topeka is my home town and i'm there at the moment. But yeah I remember when i graduated there were many aspiring poets from Topeka High school. However, most of them adopted the modern "Muh oppression struggles" styles. There however is definitely talent

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12587388

I graduated in 2017 and now earn just under $4k a month writing freelance. I'm very satisfied with SEO content writing, especially if you can secure higher paying clients. The first 9-12 months are awful pay-wise, but then you break out and start living well. I work like sub-30 hours a week, even on my busiest weeks.

start grinding out SEO and work your way from there. specialize and develop a niche.

>> No.12587622

>didn't even graduate cum laude

OP what happened? Why'd you let your grades slip?

>> No.12589101 [DELETED] 

>>12587052

>> No.12589104

>>12587179
>tfw the mafia does a better job than the police

>> No.12589107

Congrats OP, but I don’t really have any advice

>> No.12589111

>>12587052

Just how Hemingway and Faulkner waited to have their degrees before finding their jobs as writers, anon.

>> No.12589917

>>12587052
Move to Lawrence and start writing "books" about queer women of color.
They'll pick it up in no time and you'll get rich from the deep pockets of white liberals.

>> No.12590012

>>12589917
Or move to Lawrence and write John Brown westerns.

>> No.12590051

>>12590012
Or move to Lawrence and write My Little Pony fanfiction.

>> No.12590056

>>12587052
>bachelor of arts in english
>rights, privileges and responsabilities
I chuckled.