On having sidelines
Building a career is one thing; paying rent can sometimes feel like another thing altogether
I was doing some accounting yesterday, and it turns out that most of the money I’ve made since I lost my full-time job has not been from journalism, but from three main sources: a report I wrote for an NGO, a journalism-adjacent story I wrote for a different nonprofit’s magazine, and teaching at UBC. I also shot a video for a union and, finally, I did s…
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