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Written by Karla Cortes
Get up as early as the sun rises to get your kid(s) to school. Drop the kid(s) off. Drive to the office. Sit at your desk and/or periodically run around completing your boss’s orders until late noon. Pick the kid(s) up from school. Drop them off at after school. Get home and make dinner. Pick them up from after school. Eat. Shower. Put the kids to bed. Then finally, get to bed to start all over again in a few hours.
This is a typical weekday for a single mother or a mother who has a very busy partner. Does this sound like you? Or perhaps remotely similar to your regular weekday? What if I told you that you could cut out one major part of this entire routine? And no, I do not mean the kid(s). I mean the part where you sit at your desk and/or periodically run around completing your boss’s orders until late noon. How you ask? By proofreading. That’s right. Getting paid to practically read.
Not only do you get paid to sit in your favorite armchair or couch and start reading until late noon before going to pick up the kids, but you can actually spend more time with your kid(s) and/or loved ones. Being able to proofread at your own convenience lets you put off proofreading until you are ready to do so. You can spend an extra few hours with your kids in the mornings before heading off to work or better yet, attend their games/performances without the hassle of getting there late from work.
That is the part of being a paid proofreader. You get to work on your own time, at your own pace. None of the hassles of going to and from that desk job where you spend most of the day stressed on time. You can proofread from anywhere and do it at any time of the week. You might be thinking, “But what about the pay? Surely enough it must be lower than what I earn now.”
Being an established proofreader means that 90% of the time you get to decide what your salary is for each of your clients. According to PayScale, the average hourly rate for a proofreader is $17.82. The lowest hourly pay rate to be recorded is $11.68 while the highest stands at $29.74. The lowest hourly rate is still higher than what I personally make working in the service industry which also includes transportation and overtime. Glassdoor took 129 proofreader salaries from all over the US and concluded that the average base pay rounds up to $44,630 a year where the majority of proofreaders range closer to the $33k region.
So beat the hassle of wasting precious time that could be spent on your loved ones by being able to work from wherever, and wherever, at a decent rate. If you don’t know how to get started, I highly suggest reading up on Suzanne Gilad’s Paid to Proofread guide book. This incredibly helpful resource is chock full of tips and resources on how to start off your proofreading career. With this guide, you will learn how to format your resume when applying to proofreading jobs, how to find these jobs, with who to establish connections, and many more necessary tips for starting off right.
“I wish you all the best in your journey to discovering the gifted proofreader within yourself starting with these three steps.” – Sue Gilad
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Maureen is a mom, wife, nurse, and Ravenclaw living in the Netherlands. She spends her days juggling mom-life, reading, blogging, planning date nights with her husband and working as a nurse. Maureen also is a big Anglophile, loves cooking, Gilmore Girls, Bridgerton and Harry Potter.. Always! Facebook | Instagram
