I was a high school student at the time and writing a xianxia story on a Chinese online literature website. Due to the story’s popularity, I was contacted by a publishing company for a publishing contract. That’s how I got my job as an author.
I was a high school student at the time and writing a xianxia story on a Chinese online literature website. Due to the story’s popularity, I was contacted by a publishing company for a publishing contract. That’s how I got my job as an author.
In my experience, the pay is crap in small towns, even if you’re an expert.
Once you have the experience, you can go back to the city and actually get a nicer job that pays well. Until then, you can either relocate and get the experience, or stay in the city and get a McJob where you get zero experience.
Weird how you assume there’s no way to gain any experience in an urban environment.
Anyway, a significant portion of my “experience” with the cheapskates was the accumulation of bad habits since there was nobody else around for me to learn from. I would have benefitted much more from starting my career in a more professional environment with available experts.