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Michelle Goodman fled the cube in 1992 to become a freelance writer and never to look back. She is the author of The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube, and the “sequel,” My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire. She writes a weekly career column for ABCNews.com and a blog called Nine to Thrive for NWjobs.com. Her reported pieces about alternative careers, human mating rituals, and other pop culture phenom have graced such media outlets as CNN.com, Salon, BUST, Bitch, The Bark, Seattle Times, Yahoo! HotJobs, PayScale.com, and many more.

In her 16-year freelance career, she has worked 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. As a frequent speaker on the freelance writing life, she has sat on panels and given talks at events sponsored by Mediabistro, Biznik, Seattle Women’s Commission, the University of Washington, and more. She also teaches classes through the Editorial Freelancers Association and Richard Hugo House in an effort to help aspiring cubicle expats avoid the same mistakes she made early in her own solo career.

In this video, Michelle Goodman shares her out-of-the-cubicle wisdom. Check it out!

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/20257014[/vimeo]

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