Michelle Goodman
Freelance journalist and author of The Anti 9-to-5 Guide

• http://www.anti9to5guide.com

Here's the Reader's Digest version:

I'm a Seattle-based freelance writer and the author of The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube (Seal Press, 2007) and My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire (Seal Press, Fall 2008). I regularly blog about career change and the boss-free life at www.anti9to5guide.com.

And here's the full meal deal:

I fled the cube in 1992 to become a freelance writer and have yet to look back. In 2006, I decided to cram as much as detail as...[more]

Here's the Reader's Digest version:

I'm a Seattle-based freelance writer and the author of The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube (Seal Press, 2007) and My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire (Seal Press, Fall 2008). I regularly blog about career change and the boss-free life at www.anti9to5guide.com.

And here's the full meal deal:

I fled the cube in 1992 to become a freelance writer and have yet to look back. In 2006, I decided to cram as much as detail as I could about flexible, boss-free, and otherwise nontraditional careers into a book: The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube, which Seal Press published in 2007.

My reported pieces about alternative careers, human mating rituals, and other pop culture phenom have appeared in Salon, Bust, Bitch, Bark, Seattle Times, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Yahoo! HotJobs, PayScale.com, and many more. I also write a column called "How'd You Land That Great Job?", which appears on NWjobs.com and in the Sunday edition of the Seattle Times every other week.

My 15-year freelance career has given me the chance to work with everyone from book publishers to high-tech empires to peddlers of new-age products, wrangling text on pet accessories, video games, voice recognition software, marital aids, home colonics, and just about anything else that can be sold.

I was born and raised in the Garden State and got my B.A. in journalism from George Washington University. In my former 9-to-5 existence, I worked as a community newspaper reporter and bureau chief, a New York book publicist, a high-tech book editor, and a Microsoft web community editor. I live in Seattle with Buddy, an eighty-pound lap dog.

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  From Pierre Leonard 'Transl...

  Given on Thu Apr 3, 2008.

  I've been a freelancer for years before creating my current company and reading Michelle's book was a bit like reading...[more]

  I've been a freelancer for years before creating my current company and reading Michelle's book was a bit like reading my own story...

  There are lots of very useful information and I do think the book deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone who considers leaving the infamous "cubicle" forever.   [less]