Mislead.

Poo.



This evening I spontaneously decided to respond to this job ad where you write for a company that publishes articles online and you - the author - get paid for it. It was advertised as, "Blogger: part time, work from home." Sounds pretty ideal, if you ask me. Who wouldn't like to get paid for writing stuff he or she wanted to write about?

One of the possible topics was "Boston Easy Meals," and I thought to myself, "Behold! Thou dost enjoy feasting upon simple fare. Thou shouldst aspire to such greatness and glory! Thou shouldst put pen to paper and describe such a topic in great detail, as doing so wouldst aid thee in thy future."

Maybe I didn't think in quite such Shakespearian language.

But I would have liked to.

I digress.

I got almost all the way through the (fairly simple - why am I complaining?) application process until it asked for a writing sample. That seemed easy enough. I opened up a Word document, wrote approximately 200 - 300 words to meet the requirement, and went to go post it only to find the following directions:

"Please submit a writing sample here. No more than 300 words. No use of first person."

[Stunned (keyboard) silence here. My entire article is solidly in first person.]




So much for that. I thought it was pretty decent writing, too.