Employment

So I am looking for some freelance writing or editing jobs at the moment to help make some extra money and perhaps lead into another career or an additional career. While I have no formal writing or journalism training I can do better than a lot of the crap you find on the web or hear on TV or the radio in my sleep.

I consider the schooling I had in the 60s and 70s to be far superior to much of what passes for education nowadays. It also helps that I read vociferously and always have.

I apologize to anyone that this may offend but how many of you read the news article about the particle accelerator in Cern having released a Balrog and were able to immediately recognize it as the subterranean creature from the Lord of the Rings trilogy?

Reading is a very important art that I fear is being lost. I worked with a young man a number of years ago that extra-ordinarily proud of the fact that he had never read an entire book.

Please do not let the world come to this. Read something!