The Challenge of Defining Success as a Freelancer

What does it mean to do well in your career when you can’t be promoted?

Giulia Pines
Forge
Published in
6 min readMay 9, 2019

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Around the end of last year, freelance writers started showing up on Twitter to sing a song of themselves. In long threads, they posted links to the articles that had made them proud, netted them a lot of cash, or simply been published somewhere important. For…

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Giulia Pines
Forge
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Giulia Pines is an arts and culture journalist with recent work in the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Edible Queens. She lives in Jackson Heights.