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I didn't mean to bring you down, amid all the hoopla surrounding the report, but it bears noting that when you see gains of 37,000 in the leisure and hospitality industries, its important to know that many of those positions are low-paying, which is a better hardship than no job at all, but a hardship nonetheless.

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Though it is unfair to assume that low-paying markets are also low-quality markets, in my reading experience this has been generally true.

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These smaller non-paying, or low-paying markets play a critical part in the development of the speculative genres.

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So I think that endlessly repeating the economic and professional logic of not submitting to low-paying markets is not only entirely helpful and it does actually serve to stress the differences between the professional mindset and that of much more junior writers.

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One of the points that Ann, Rachel, John, etc have made several times now is that, yes, you can't lump all semi-pro/low-paying markets together, and that's important for writers to remember.

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By not naming names it could be thought that what was being talked about here were ALL small low-paying, non-paying, and semi-pro markets.

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Increased competition for such low pay raises a troubling possibility, one that has plagued other attractive but low-paying fields, like journalism: those with bills to pay or families to support, who cannot afford to accept farm wages, may be squeezed out, leaving the best farm jobs to those whose financial safety net parents, trust fund, etc allows them the luxury of working for nothing.

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"There are plenty of low-paying, semi-pro, and even non-paying markets."

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Increased competition for such low pay raises a troubling possibility, one that has plagued other attractive but low-paying fields, like journalism: those with bills to pay or families to support, who cannot afford to accept farm wages, may be squeezed out, leaving the best farm jobs to those whose financial safety net parents, trust fund, etc allows them the luxury of working for nothing.

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Of course there are loads of utterly horrible low-paying mags out there, but isn't that why we're all supposed to "read a copy" of things before we submit?

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