In my library days, I would often work at home on the days that I absolutely, unconditionally had to meet a deadline for a report, publication, etc. I was...
I'd like to ask all of you how you got your first assignment. I'm an academic librarian, just getting started on freelance indexing due to the complete lack of...
... I started telling everyone I knew or met or thought of that I was an indexer and available for work. Eventually I told someone who said he was an author...
Hello, I'm enrolled in the Indexing class offered by UC Berkeley, planning to add indexing to the editorial services I offer. I live in the northern U.S. and...
... That's pretty much the norm, even if you live in a publishing hotspot. You need a high-speed internet connection for downloading large PDFs, and maybe a...
Altho I did all the Usual Things when I started freelancing (mailings, etc.), my first paying jobs were based on personal contacts. The first journal I ever...
Ditto Dick's remarks. Everybody nowadays works for clients far and wide. Geographic proximity is virtually unnecessary except for a few professors you might...
jperlman@...
Jan 2, 2008 3:42 pm
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Hi Susan, Far be it from me to give a short answer when a long one will do! In my early 20s (early 1960s) I knew absolutely nothing about making an index....
Paula Presley
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Jan 2, 2008 3:45 pm
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I concur with Dick and Janet's remarks. I live in the Pacific NW, but most of my clients are on the East Coast or in the Midwest -- plus a couple in foreign...
I took early retirement from IBM in '92. One of the last things I did there was a series of usability tests on indexes and found them interesting. I didn't yet...
In full disclosure on my part, I receive Social Security and a pension, and have Medicare parts A,B,D, and a supplement. My indexing has always been for "the...
Paula Presley
paula.presley@...
Jan 2, 2008 4:38 pm
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Similar caveat in the the interest of full disclosure: I have a pension from 35 years as a librarian, plus a working spouse with full benefits -- which means...
I concur with the consensus that geography does not matter. It once did, but not for the past decade or more. I live in the City of New York and I have never...
... OK, today wasn't a typical day, but it wasn't all that unusual either. I spent two hours indexing, then decided to take a break and archive all my 2007...
Hahahaha!! This sounds so "typical" for some of us today I've been indexing a very boring book off and on since 2:00 p.m. (it is now 8:25 pm). I started the...
Paula Presley
paula.presley@...
Jan 3, 2008 2:32 am
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In this boring, boring book, I just ran across a description of one individual: "So-and-so made matters worse with a basic managerial philosophy described by...
Paula Presley
paula.presley@...
Jan 3, 2008 3:15 am
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I find my billable hours per day tend to be directly related to the interest I have in the book and indirectly related to the number of days until the ...
... Like you, I also got started in indexing/editing due to the lack of "real" employment opportunities (unfortunately a mere 3 months after I got my MLS, but...
... I'm actually wishing I lived in New York about now -- my current author "has no idea how to turn on a computer" (as his son says) and has been sending me...
Ann, Ditto on a boring book taking ages. Maybe it really isn't taking longer than usual, but it certainly seems like it. I'm easily diverted from the project....
Paula Presley
paula.presley@...
Jan 3, 2008 3:16 pm
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... how ... I was using Sonic RecordNow. It was extremely simple to use. One window, the directions appeared in the window when you launched it. With Nero, my...
... "younger" ... Whoa! I fall into that "older" (probably even "older, older" group) but I've been working with computers since my first IBM PC in 1982. In...
Me, too. I've only done two so far and I corresponded with both parties via email. One was in Southern California and the other was in Florida. We do have a...
I send them as email attachments, usually in PDF format. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Paula Presley
paula.presley@...
Jan 3, 2008 5:58 pm
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... I rarely have contracts. I sometimes get assignment sheets, but those are just for my records. If I do get a contract, I fax it back, though I had one ...
I still have a working fax machine, but rarely use it these days. (I actually dropped long distance coverage on that line, which is also my DSL line, and now...
Thanks everyone for the quick responses. When you say "sign PDFs", do you mean sign with your real signature or do you refer to a digital signature? I'm...
