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I've done maybe three or four freelance jobs for no money, and it was a ton of work. I remember spending probably 15-20 hours working on a one-page article. (Mostly the work was on getting interviews because it turned out to be a bit touchier than I excepted.) The stress it caused soured me against the idea for quite a while, and the lack of any pay at all deadens the whole big-picture outlook quite a bit.
It will probably be harder than you think to start out, no matter how hard you think it is. I'm sure it's harder than I think it is. Just expect a lot of fucking work, and if you really want to get into it, you're going to have to handle some serious work-and-little-reward for a while.
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