Interesting read, thanks for sharing. I was a staff writer with an american fun/educative website for a few years and it was quite good but eventually, you get tired of writing posts that someone else figure out and assign to you. I mean I love it here on Hive where I write about whatever I just feel like :) I´m sorry that you didn´t find us earlier, I am sure you wouldn´t have taken those terrible $5 posts at Upwork if you had already been on Hive...
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