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That&#8217;s a fair amount&mdash;probably $3500 in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I know that none of my friends with full-time jobs, whether they&#8217;re at startups or blue-chip multinationals, have much sense of job security anymore, there&#8217;s still something weird about freelancing. The past two weeks I had almost no work, which is damned alarming, you can bet. 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