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Elissa Strauss's avatar

congrats Anya!

Anya Kamenetz's avatar

Thanks Elissa!

Kathleen Cawley's avatar

How did you find someone to help with promotion and social media? This is my achilles heal and I know I need help but don't know how to go about finding it. Suggestions?

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Anya Kamenetz's avatar

I posted a job description as a status on LinkedIn and I had a real task to complete as a test for applicants.

Kathleen Cawley's avatar

Interesting! I never would have thought of that...probably why I need social media help! What's a reasonable rate to pay? Again, I have no clue.

Anya Kamenetz's avatar

$40/hour and up

Emily F's avatar

Love this. I sent it to my husband who is a freelance art director because I love your idea of paying someone to do promotion - brilliant idea. I especially love the end of this piece and Joanna's words of wisdom: "Live the questions now. Perhaps you then may, gradually, without noticing, one day in the future, live into the answers." Beautiful.

Rachel's avatar

I am so thankful for your writing. I work in emergency preparedness (specifically coastal storms in NY) and have two small kids. I’m surrounded by the facts of climate change every day but have little emotional input. I’m devastated at work and at home- watching my children grow into this world. I don’t usually have an opportunity to put that grief into words but I’m so thankful you do that for us.

Anya Kamenetz's avatar

Thank you Rachel. I'll be thinking of you!

Kate Howlett's avatar

Thank you for writing this! So inspiring and full of wisdom 🙏

Anya Kamenetz's avatar

Thanks for reading, Kate!

STAND UP! With Pete Dominick's avatar

I loved reading this. Will reach out

Anya Kamenetz's avatar

Thanks Pete!! Appreciate all your support.

Latoya Peterson's avatar

I love this evolution for you - I still remember a million years ago when you said freelancing was “intellectual piecework.” Times change! But glad to see you continuing to forge onwards.

Anya Kamenetz's avatar

Thanks Latoya! You too, I love following your journey from afar.

Liz Baker Plosser's avatar

I related to so much of this, including the awesomeness of learning every day. I’m grateful you’re here writing abt all of this!

Logan Juliano, PhD's avatar

This was great! All of this is really helpful. Thank you.

I tried to click two different links to the survey and neither worked for me. I also copied the url to another browser and that said it was "redirecting" too many times. I'm not sure what's up but I wanted to let you know in case you weren't getting tons of responses.

Jeremy Ney's avatar

This was awesome to read and yes count me in for helping to double things in the next year!