True! But I've been working for them for a long time, and I work on two accounts there. So not sure if I can cut one without the other. I imagine I could get better pay elsewhere, but now I need to actually look!

I have thought about starting my own copy-editing business--to really be self-employed--but not sure how I'd get it off the ground. I suppose I could try doing that while still having these contracts, see what happens. Then I could set my own rates.

Or I'd like to copy edit books instead, like textbooks, so they'd be longer-term projects. It seems like, from my searching in the past, they want you to already have book experience...you'd think my 20 years of copy editing science journals (and some other stuff) would count for something... I guess worth a try. Or they want people to work on site.