New article request on Constant-Content:

Title:  Creative Freelance Writers

Description:

We are looking for freelance writers to create dynamic content for our Language Classes website.
The job consists of paraphrasing work based on an original text we will provide. The content aims to showcase the advantages of learning or improving any language with our company.
Dynamic texts should be creative, unique, enticing and showing no spelling mistakes to users. Content should be done by creating synonymous sentences and phrases which can be used or interchangeable but still making sense.

Please send us a small sample of your work along with your best quotes and any other questions you may have to …

More details will be sent to the right candidates.

Subjects: Language learning
Language classes with native teachers

Other notes: More details will be sent to the right candidates.?

Amount of Articles: to be confirmed
Price per Article: $10-20
Length of Article: to be confirmed
Date requested: 2010-04-27 16:35:47

If you are interested, first sign up as an author at constant-content here:

http://www.constant-content.com/

Then go to this request link:

http://www.constant-content.com/account/view_request.htm?id=5650

Propublica reportingnetwork

I am not sure if they pay, but Propublica.org has a page listing reporting opportunities.

Propublica.org just won a Pulitzer prize for journalism. It is a non-profit, creative commons licensed online reporting site.

Here is one:

Help Us Keep an Eye on Stimulus Contractors

ProPublica first reported on past transgressions by stimulus contractors last May, uncovering the fact that companies getting millions in stimulus cash had been fined for pollution and environmental destruction or investigated for refusing to hire black employees. One stimulus contractor had been rebuked for poorly screening interrogators who later abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib. We plan to keep scrutinizing firms in this second year of stimulus spending. If you’ve spotted other contractors with past misconduct, e-mail us. You can find a list of companies that received construction contracts here and guidelines for backgrounding them here.

Home Business Bug isn’t about online freelance writing jobs, but they do have very affordable  Work From Home start up franchises. There were some that were even under five hundred dollars. A couple around that price point were a liquidation company (necessary for ebay and etsy) and a child safe company (great for stay at home moms).

You can sort by initial investment, or by state. It looks like they are relatively new, so hopefully they will offer more under $500 Work at Home start up opportunities.

HomeBusinessBug.com provides helpful and informative articles like

What is the difference between a licensee, distributorship, and a franchisee?” tohelp people understand basic home based business concepts and

The Top 3 Mistakes To Avoid In Your Home Business

so new home business owners don’t fall prey to the common pitfalls of opening a home based business.

Who knows, you could start a Home Business as your main income, and keep writing until you hit it big!

Do you have a home based business?
Advertise with HomeBusinessBug for FREE

From their ad copy:

We are a Home Business web site catering to the entrepreneurs/”homepreneurs” that are looking for home based business opportunities.

Our goal is to become a comprehensive directory where individuals can find legit home business concepts. We are also building out a resource center that will encompass industry related articles and news.

Okay, here is another career advice website review.

CareerSuccessions.com

Instantly I saw that CareerSuccessions.com claims to help you with your personal brand. I’ve twittered to my friends before, asking what they thought my personal brand was, and received zero responses. Your personal brand is a huge selling point, not just to your potential employer, but as a confidence booster. In the world of online writing/blogging, your image/personal brand is all you have.  Any company that claims to help you with your own personal branding is worth paying for. They actually offer a comprehensive career advice package for the career changer, not just personal branding help.

CareerSuccessions.com
has eleven career search experts. They range from a personal branding expert, to a social media guru, an interviewing coach, a recruiter expert, and several hidden job market search experts. Most seem to have decades of experience, including consulting on major job sites like monster.com and television networks.

Here is their ad copy:
With today’s challenging job market, the old methods of searching for a job simply aren’t working any more. CareerSuccessions.com
has gathered an elite group of some of our nation’s most sought after career coaches and bundled their advice with powerful job attainment software tools. These experts’ insider techniques along with access to premier databases and job search materials result in CareerSuccessions.com
online tutorial step-by-step program that will be your greatest tool in finding a better job, faster.

CareerSuccessions.com

10 Places to Find Work at Home and Freelance Jobs – Freelance, Telecommute, and Work from Home Job Boards and Listings — ModernMamiâ„¢.com

Great list of online job search sites. Bookmark this and check the sites out daily, or at least weekly.

Updated: 28 Sites now.

via 26 Sites That Pay You to Blog | How-To.

Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism - Jobs.

This website does list some blogging jobs.