How Not To Get Business

Despite currently being in the world of the “Properly Employed”, I still frequent some of the forums for freelancers and the like. If nothing else it’s useful for seeing if there’s other small projects etc. coming up that I can also do for a bit of money.

Among other things on these forums, there are sometimes people trying to get started in freelancing, or pimp for more work.

Yesterday had one of these examples, and it just had to be written about.

The entire content of the message was :

Hey pple? I need a article writing job, smbdy help

Now that really is a spectacular example of how not to get any work whatsoever through a freelancer’s forum.  Or indeed through any forum.

In fact I’d go so far as to say it’s the single most awesome example I’ve ever seen.  If anyone were to give this bell-end a job, they’d entirely deserve what they got.