I edited my university's literary journal for two years and spent the following four as a copy editor at a Manila publishing house. Books, magazines, academic manuscripts — I had edited everything from cookbooks to legal commentaries. I loved the work but the industry rates in the Philippines made it impossible to build financial security on editing alone. I needed to take those skills somewhere they would command what they were worth.
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I have been their lead editor for twenty months. I also work with two other content teams — one in Canada and one in the UK — on a part-time retainer basis. My work goes out under my clients' names, as all good editing should, but the quality difference is visible and my clients know it. I work from a quiet home in Dumaguete that I could never have afforded on a publishing house salary, with a view of the sea and the professional standing I spent years building. The Pro profile on OnlineBestJobs.ph connected me to clients who valued editorial expertise the way I always believed it deserved to be valued.
