Working: Negotiating Freelance Rates

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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For this week’s episode of Working Overtime, hosts Karen Han and Isaac Butler explain how they navigate the often confusing world of freelance rates. They offer tips on how to negotiate, when to take less money than you’d like, and when to walk away. Do you have a question about creative work? Leave a message at (304) 933-9675 or email us at working@slate.com. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cameron Drews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of Working Over Time.
0:40.0	Working's bi-weekly, advice-focused serum to workings moisturizer.
0:44.0	I'm your host, Karen Hahn.
0:45.0	And I'm your other host, Isaac Butler.
0:47.0	Hey, Isaac, how you doing?
0:48.0	I'm doing all right. You know, it's funny.
0:50.0	You said serum, I thought that this was going in like a Captain America direction.
0:54.0	Not in a facial skin care.
0:59.0	What this tells me is that you don't use this serum as part of your skincare routine.
1:02.0	I don't, I don't, and now I'm old enough that I'm starting, you know, like every time I look at my face in the mirror,
1:07.0	I'm like, it's getting a little puffier and a little redder every day.
1:10.0	I should have used this serum 20 years ago.
1:13.0	It's never too late to start.
1:15.0	That's true, that's true. Since we can't go back in time to fix my skin,
1:19.0	what should we be talking about today?
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