In 21 years, Chris Lee has worked part-time for close to a dozen different employers. After every job, he learned a few valuable lessons, acquired new skills, and died a little on the inside.
He waited on tables and ran take-out at a Chinese restaurant. He was the sullen teenager behind an over-caffeinated, overly-cheery-sales-associate-mask at Old Navy. He gutted houses and interned at Maxim Magazine. He was a Resident Assistant for 14-year olds in upstate-New York, 17-year olds in Nanjing, China, and college students at Rutgers University. He is now giving vasectomy serious contemplation.
He simultaneously held three positions throughout college, and for the last two years, it’s been four: residence life at Rutgers, interning with Maxim Magazine Online, consulting at a computer lab, and editor for a college magazine.
Post-graduation, he will be completely and utterly unemployed for the first time since the age of 14. He will pursue young-adult fiction, freelance writing, and anything that piques his interests, no matter how temporary. Since none of those involve seeking or obtaining employment, he hopes to remain far away from the 9 to 5 life for a long time.
Chris Lee's blog is Christopher Ming Lee.
As this pursuit is still young, I’m constantly exploring new ways to pick up more freelancing gigs. There is one ideal, absolute best way to do it: 1. Make use of contacts in the business: people you know who work in publishing, the media, or small businesses that use freelance writers. For me personally, this avenue […]
