One I noticed and when Gregory Austin unfollowed me on LinkedIn, I said something that really touched a real nerve. Seeing how he was talking about being a published author talking about "stellar resume writing" I am going to turn that idea upon its head a little bit. To put this one in polite company, quite a few don't think past producing a resume therefore limiting and hindering what a cloud processor can do.

"What are you doing Nick, don't stir the pot and upset the status quo."

Seeing how my family is getting laid off in less than a week. I have to go freelance more than ever. They hate the word contract employment. The term telecommute is not in their vocabulary as I work with Scottsdale, Arizona, San Francisco, California, New York, City, India, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The "read local" is the two most condescending words I ever heard uttered from someone who is the most self-centered in the publishing sector. Illinois has more than one player in the publishing sector and I was a little fish who had some high rollers.

"We want you doing a nine to five punching a clock and a payroll check that you can put in a bank."

That is the expected on the local front, I said to anyone encouraging this the bosses I have at each place I am with. I will not have anyone in this state as accomplished as they are while I caught the director of a nonprofit badmouthing my bosses. Trying to get me to disown my published output. Not only badmouth my bosses but bad-mouthed my friends back home. That's not kosher to me at all, and the subject from a 2200 plus word piece out of Sarasota trivialized one of my contributors from 13 years when he was a year older than herself. In the wake of playing up in El Paso, Texas, one of the elders who was a member of The Knights of Columbus.

He realized he had a ton of shortcomings ahead of him. The article I read was the longest thing that West Central Florida produced, one thing I picked up on they do frown upon long form journalism while Illinois in citizen journalism it is a commodity. I was with Associated Content before they became Yahoo Voices so I produced a rare published example of citizen journalism. In the mid-2000s citizen media picked up the slack that old media left and personal journalism was getting noticed.

"550 work count is suitable for a magazine in Florida, we frown upon longer works."

That is not journalism to me, flogging fluff is a term I would coin the neighborhood pieces that are published in the region. Reality they refrain from telling out-of-staters are the area they've got many sleeping in the park around Downtown Saint Petersburg, one of them has a cell phone, EBT and was given an email address to work with. She had more than what I had when I lived in Northern Iowa. In Iowa and when I was at the day location of DuPage County PADS I was one of the few who had an email address in 1997. In Florida to keep people doing local only business they will try to abolish email usage to get business therefore stopping a freelancer in their tracks because it is how one gets paid while on the place I was with for almost ten years before I got fired.

A magazine in this area would say a piece they are looking at is long enough, not for me let's keep going. Those who say the employment resume might be the most important thing one ever done is a slap in the face to me because I got published for long form works by the time I was turning 29 years old. Being able to know how to arrange a manuscript for submissions to a magazine or an anthology consideration because one may never know who will be interacting with them. Kelly Services who I was with back in 1998 while I was living in Mason City, Iowa, caught wind of what I do in the present was doing a double take as some of the staff said impressive.

They were wishing they knew how to place someone who handled the role of content creator because it isn't a forgiving field. In Chicago, the newspaper Streetwise gave those down and out a written voice as well as vendors. They paved the way to work as content creator or a feature reporter while living in a family shelter. The idea that someone lives in a resume only society where one knows how to produce a fleshed up manuscript, well it sometimes intimidates to the bone. The wavelength of networking by the Illinois mindset is getting a manuscript out there and having a published work in the hands of the community; that’s our version of outreach. Shaw Media had been in the community since 1851, they were a few years younger than Chicago Tribune, the third oldest operation in Illinois. The Chicago Sun-Times revealed to be the youngest being they established two years after the Second World War, noted for having two Pulitzers to their name for local reporting and breaking news reporting. I’m going to say the Wilmington, Illinois, collective is going to be long overdue for local reporting from 1881 where The Tampa Bay Times might have seen layoffs left and right. Newspapers in Illinois go back to 1813, prior to Illinois’ statehood. Being a publisher in Illinois on the anthology forefront of the small press I had about 191 years worth of knowledge to research to enter the game myself as I wanted to be a publisher by age 20.

I was trying to become one by age 25 though I wasn’t quite aware of Open Office at the time, I have to thank the Apache group for bringing them on -- the programs out there make journalism something that the blue collar working man is able to lead. While I was reading into the newspapers of Sarasota and Tampa Bay Times -- hard to find long form pieces that are newsworthy though I managed to find one that stood out as I was walking around Williams Park. The thing that called to mind had to be Chicago’s Uptown community, as my buddy worked with the living rough within the community in the district. In Illinois, the nonprofit sector has a tight relationship with the history of publishing while in Florida I noticed the publishing sector is also a nonprofit origin though fighting with other nonprofits. I found myself having to unsubscribe to emails based on nonprofits because they flooded my inbox when I was looking for email from prospective freelance openings.

Florida the nonprofits tend to try to close doors on publishing chances if the publishing refuses to help that said nonprofit; reading of two of them who were mentioned in the article -- there are questions to raise and those who are eager jobseeker wanting to get on a sector should research them rather carefully. Streetwise had nearly 30 years of those they helped, and yes I had bought a few of them over the years too -- it contributed how my 5,683 word piece really took a life of its own in the era. One of the local businesses in Saint Petersburg, Florida, cued me in on how the publishers are in the region -- many of the publications are real estate oriented and don’t hit human interest overlapping a hard news piece. Well in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where hard reporting meets human interest as Yahoo News and later the USA Today collective caught wind of it.

Where something like this, sadly, Gregory Austin will openly ignore an opportunity to report on a personal journalism work from a jobseeker’s perspective -- also known as the man on the street journalism. I am going to say that Gregory Austin with his way of networking is rather selfish when it comes to being published if one gets published, share that kind of information and give it to those who honestly want to get their foot in the door. One sees, I had paid for his book as a Kindle release though I am going to say a stellar resume will not get them the kind of places I had been published with over the years. Sometimes it takes one work in progress to land a piece that will have some staying power over the years.

I don’t like being accused of getting kickbacks from places like Longreads.com though I had known of them for a few years. [Since my then working relationship with Lulu.com, though Kara Cooney was more aware of them.]

I invite him to submit for Creative Nonfiction Foundation if he has the handling fee to spare them. Having that longer piece will give him that message he wants out there but those see the lack of time taking in a graphic design on a published work -- it might fall on deaf ears.

“I don’t want to hear that.”

“Well I hate to be the one to deflate your swelled egos.”

“I don’t like dealing with a journalist or freelancer.”

“Well why are you following our hashtags if you don’t have interest in becoming this?”

Some who are freelancers who use the hashtags don’t realize it’s a rotating door, a few will unfollow or block you because you gave information that’s too nerve shattering -- or reveal a side of it that is not uplifting. Ben Whitsell, made a move which could have hurt his cause, badmouthing a 2,484 word piece saying if I was paid out of the box for this.

I will say some things are rather rude to ask, and that one was rude because I used that example as a free read to get my foot in the door. He got on me for looking down upon drabble, well when I was more active in publishing I really did turn away pieces that are 840 words or less. Eric S. Brown saw the connection when we appeared in a magazine together overseas in England. He had a shorter piece while I had a 3500 word piece. The mid-range piece is my specialty over the years, the high 4800 word pieces where something I was prone to do for an anthology or a magazine -- my freebie pieces were 1800-3700 word counts. If possible I try not to give a 6500 word piece away for free.

Gregory Austin’s published outing is about 85 pages lighter than my first full length effort where I gave the reader some meat on the bone as each part of my book had novella length chunks. My debut as an author was a short story collection with two true stories in the book, I had a 248 page collection when it was on BookSurge though reissued it was made a taller trade paperback with a treatment as a graphic designer. Gregory lacked graphic design prowess to even carry his work, and the way it looked with Kindle it might have been a tad wonky. So those who are jobseekers and reading this piece, I am going to give some more insight about your resume output -- it might not be able to do you justice. Having an article in the quiver might make your resume round-file proof as those who had seen manuscripts get this or a form rejection at one point. Gregory Austin never seen rejection letters for his work though I will say he needs a few pieces that are 2400-3500 word count to capitalize upon his momentum well he lacks momentum with graphic design arrangements.

There are some aspects with a resume that will lack, and the issue someone never wrote anything outside of this in their life. I presented a dilemma to Gregory Austin of the ultimatum, would he encourage a jobseeker to be damned to unskilled labor or explore the idea of compiling an article for publication? I started this off within my smart phone much as the article I am getting around and letting those beta read this before sending it off. I had seen those who become too vague with the term meaningful work; what is meaningful to them might be a proverbial throat-punch to me. The piece one is looking at is comparable to the Sarasota piece from 2016, though the thing that I would say of this area they sell ignorance is bliss. I am addressing Gregory Austin’s approach to encouraging jobseekers as half-right, though speaking from someone who worked in the publishing field and citizen media since my late 20s. I’ve noticed more than one of these unskilled resumes, and taking up journalism is what prevented me from having one of those kinds of compendium myself.

Seeing the unskilled on LinkedIn.com it’s almost ad nauseum.

The world of jobseekers who want to have a manuscript mind, it becomes something that might stand out for them because having that particular writing sample will have them possible looking for work in Oklahoma City, San Francisco, or Scottsdale where it takes 40 seconds to sign up and have a PayPal.com account to get paid. PayPal and Cash.App will prepare a job-seeker for a gig economy. I learned about being a freelancer when my first time working in Temporary Employment at age nineteen getting ready to turn 20 years old, after laid off from my full-time factory job and had no medical benefits -- freelancing as a writer became more inviting though at the time the resources were still not found or known about. It wasn’t until I got into early web development I started to get a taste of work that promoted from within. Kelly Services and the other places are learning about how freelance work is sometimes self-creating. The temporary worker becomes a freelancer as the advent of PayPal made those who get Social Security Disability a way to work on their own terms and have the 1099 information (this is a must have form when looking for this kind of work.)

Freelancers are often critics of wage labor, because it doesn’t allow them a way to focus on a piece they’re working on or attempt to do the piece on a the fly between the commute. Google Docs on Android -- one can really start working on such a piece from a bus as anywhere one has access to WiFi.

“We’re not on the same wavelength with networking. I am unfollowing and blocking you.”

Well the thing with the hashtag among those circles they don’t have a long shelf life. Some of the contacts on LinkedIn.com; three of them I have been friends with since I was in grade, middle and high school respectively. So those who make the claim, “You will make new friends where you are now.”

I hardly relate to anyone here, nothing in common.

Those who had little college, my age are either flipping burgers or bagging groceries in a promotion from within as a realtor was speaking up for bagging groceries. I pointed out where I had friends and extended family work at those places in DuPage County and Chicago, where they had little to no advancement. The thing that broke my heart is my cousin who is retired now has the college education from Chicago City Colleges was working the deli for many years at the counterpart to Publix in Chicago -- Jewel-Osco, and reading of a man who is special needs getting assaulted at the same Jewel-Osco one of my relatives by marriage worked as a pharmacist during the 1980s. I will say Florida is in need of serious reform. Where I saw Vocational Rehabilitation in Saint Petersburg, Florida, became vague with me about fitting employment. According to my findings it became rather irrelevant when I learned of they had a published author from that circuit, and in Florida it might be something of a curiosity though in either Illinois or New England they are looking for disabled focused voices that didn’t read like a damned Hallmark card.

I am not that kind of journalist so don’t even think of turning me into one. When I saw something play up that could be another fragment of my 2006 piece, such as a woman bleeding out waiting for an EMT at the tail end of 2019 -- or read about the Polar Vortex 2019, while Florida reports on the carefree and feel-good. I prefer to give those a little meat on the bone and have those come across the dialog that is thought provoking in nature. Shaw Media are the journalists who are known community advocates who chronicle history, I am not going to lie to the readers about this as I saw them chronicle my place in history and my cousin’s place in history. Gregory Austin should be a little more mindful of this, and the stakes of freelance are high.