Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Once again, I am reminded that their is a marketplace. If I want to do something for which people pay me, I must consult the marketplace.

Just do good work, and everything will be alright…or something like that.

The trouble is (and I feel it is quite troublesome), you must first find someone who will pay you to do the good work. There are few people today who will pay me to make writing instruments from the feathers of birds and do good work of it. Rats.

There is the marketplace. That is the place where people with money and tasks, for which they will trade that money, exist. If I want to find those money-earning tasks, I must go to the marketplace and notice what is happening.

But I just want to do good work. I am not a marketer.

Well, I should then hire a marketer. Well, that is one way to do it. Well, sigh. Can’t I just forget the marketing?

Nope. If I want to be a freelancer or whatever, I have to do the marketing. That is a necessary part of the deal.