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It's almost like a social Turing test: A good person is someone you identify as such based purely on messages written on slips of paper and passed under a door.
I totally agree with the "too young" thing. I'm 15 and been freelancing since I was 12, and this gets in the way all the time . People try to take advantage of you once they realize that you're young(er) than most in the field.
I would agree that you should be paid based on your skill, though, not age.
I enjoyed the piece, but this is overstated. Represented by an agent that protects anonymity, or just working by correspondence only, writers have enjoyed this ability for a long time.
George Eliot and J.K. Rowling obscured their gender and let the work speak for itself.
What a strange claim. "Looking back", he can't help but feel discriminated against due to his height. It couldn't possibly be because of his "no formal eduction, no experience with any big clients", could it?
== did you read the whole piece? granted it's easy to perhaps skip the "no" in "no lower" education.
I had the totally same experience with early online communities (Everything2, Slashdot), and for a long time made a conscious effort of keeping my avatar off the Internet. It's a little utopian, yes, but being able to deal with people based on their ideas, ideals, and quality of work, and develop fast friendships without ever being aware of so much (Great line: "How could the internet know you were gay? 80 years old?…
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I totally agree with the "too young" thing. I'm 15 and been freelancing since I was 12, and this gets in the way all the time . People try to take advantage of you once they realize that you're young(er) than most in the field.
I'm not trying to push you down, and anyone not paying you what your work is worth is definitely taking advantage of you.
What a strange claim. "Looking back", he can't help but feel discriminated against due to his height. It couldn't possibly be because of his "no formal eduction, no experience with any big clients", could it?
That would be a great argument if my peers had formal education or experience with big clients. None of them did. There is no "point" to be made by my post, rather a description of two vastly different ways I was treated for the same work I was doing during the same point in my life — one online, one in person.
I've had to be more careful about my appearance, of course. My clothes fit well, I'm lean, and I work out.
Despite my diminutive stature, men get out of my way, because I look strong and I walk confidently. Men didn't do this until I got strong.
I get looks from girls all the time. They don't seem to care that I'm in about the 2nd percentile, height wise.
Attitude about height is often more important than actual height for a man. Things would probably be easier if I were taller, but being short is far from the insurmountable obstacle it's made out to be.
Turns out, the biggest name in all of modern experimental hip hop, Flying Lotus, was behind the project, along with a wealth of his friends. When asked why he didn't release the music as Flying Lotus, he replied (paraphrased) that he didn't want people to say, "Oh, he's rapping now", and he wanted to be respected more for his talent than for his legacy, or who people thought he was.
