Freelancers: financial writing jobs await you online
Journalists tend to learn the skills of online writing faster than any other professional group. You already know how to structure a news story as an inverted pyramid. You know how to write a lead sentence that summarises the story. You know the difference between objective and emotive writing. And sub-editors know how to write a proper headline.
Freelancers with a special niche rise above the crowd. What's your area of special knowledge? Writers with a background in sharetrading, economics or accounting seek out lucrative financial writing jobs. Online journals for professionals and consumers in law, health, cars, insurance, building, travel, engineering, technology and education abound. And they want original web content for their magazines and newsletters. These are "financial writing jobs" in another sense!
Jennifer Ouellette is a former English major who accidentally became a science writer. She explains how much fun this change of career turned out to be. Her blog may be a labour of love, but it brings in other financial writing jobs.
Besides expertise (whether in a financial, medical, legal, scientific or other specialist field), one other quality sets freelancers aside from the crowd: training! As a freelancer trained in web content writing, you'll find endless opportunities online. A Contented course on your CV will inspire confidence and get you those financial writing jobs. Your training will equip you for an exciting future as a versatile online freelancer.
Comments from a happy freelance journalist
I found the Contented course really valuable. It gives clear guidelines on writing and editing website content. The contented course appealed to me because it was online and self paced.
I liked the examples of websites before/ after editing and the checklist in the last module. Each module was broken down into small parts so I found it easy to read onscreen. I have just edited a website for a client using the contented 'rules' ie: front loaded headlines, reduced waffle and lots of white space. She is really happy with the results.
Thanks Alice, I'd be interested in other writing courses of yours in the future. I'm just at the start of my writing and editing career but I know the skills I've gained from the course will generate business for me.
Kind Regards,
Jo Issa
