freelance

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Marc worked for the City of Pomona and also did freelance social media work, according to his father.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

She was a full-time reporter covering the brokerage industry for Dow Jones Newswires for four years before her freelance career, contributing regularly to national media, including The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

It has also been claimed that some staff who recently took redundancy have been offered chances to return as freelance workers.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

I freelance and have been traveling more over the past year, so I know I could easily spend that money on travel.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

By day, Evans is a kindly and now semiretired minister in the Uniting Church in Australia, who does a bit of freelance work and researches the history of nineteenth-century religious movements.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson