As you read these, keep this in mind: All stagers started out without experience, meaning someone had to give
them their first paid gig.
Just like an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you'll face as a recent college grad starting out as a freelancer is landing
your first paying gigs.
Just a few weeks after he began to play music with friends Jeffrey booked
his first paying gig.
When I got into comics, there was no independent comics scene, and the few indies there were had no foothold until I'd already gotten
my first paying gigs.
He told me about playing
their first paying gig at a bar in Five Points.
Not exact matches
He says the company's
first employees were two interns who started with three - month
gigs but then never left, even though GiveForward couldn't
pay them until the year - and - a-half mark.
In a finding that will be little surprise to high - schoolers looking for a part - time
gig or college and university graduates seeking a
first permanent position, StatsCan says young employees are most likely to be
paid the minimum wage:
«We bootstrapped for the
first two and half years, and we didn't actually
pay ourselves anything,» says Austin, adding that the company's
first employees were two interns who started with three - month
gigs but then never left, even though GiveForward couldn't
pay them until the year - and - a-half mark.
launched, Sebastian Rusk secured his
first paid speaking
gig, a $ 5,000 deal with a membership group called Entrepreneurs» Organization.
As any journalist will tell you, work in media doesn't always
pay the bills, and Larry King's
first gig in radio was no exception.
After writing about games as a pastime for years, he got his
first shot at a
paid gig at 1UP.
My
first paid writing
gig was reviewing back when I was in junior high — the Kansas City Star had a teen section and I did reviews on books, TV shows and films for several years there, as well as the occasional humor column.
After writing about games as a pastime for years, he got his
first shot at a
paid gig at 1UP.
As I mentioned before (briefly), my
first paid writing
gig was for Hardcore Gamer Magazine, a monthly publication that rose from the ashes of Diehard GameFan, an infamous gaming magazine from the 1990s.
Too many times recent graduates whether from a college, university or trades school will take the
first offer, since it's a lot more than your part - time
gig pays.
It's usually a complete surprise, (long story short, bands don't get
paid for these kinds of things until their record label is
paid back
first, so we never know when these «
gigs» are going to pop up) and I'll never forget the time we were sitting in a movie theater here in Prattville, and one of his songs started playing in one of the previews.