Why Freelance Writing Isn’t Sexy Enough

“As my fingers stroked lightly across the keys, moving swiftly and passionately, not slowing down but increasing my speed more and more as I…”

Oh, I’m sorry. Excuse me. I was just making some adjustments to an article that I was working on. Hope you didn’t get flustered while reading those words. Okay, read them again. Flustered yet?

I was talking about freelance writing.

Freelance writing is what I do for a living. It’s what helps me pay the mortgage each month, put gas in my car and register my kids for soccer teams. Freelance writing is what gets me up early in the mornings, keeps me up until  the wee hours of the night, makes me jot down thoughts and ideas while I’m driving, doing my P90X and cooking stir-fry. Freelance writing is what I do, what I love and what I wouldn’t trade for anything.

But sexy, it ain’t.

When I saw this list of careers that are considered sexy, I wondered, “why isn’t freelance writing on the list?” After all, we’re sexy, arent’ we? Aren’t we? I’d like to think that we are, but I feel as though I’m fooling myself. I mean, what other career is there where you can:

1. Work in your pajamas, be that a t-shirt and socks or a Victoria’s Secret teddy.

2. Talk on the phone, disguising your voice to sound as sexy as you want, and the other person never has to know how you really look. But, I guess that’s not too good for marketing to potential clients.

3. Have bed head. That’s sexy.

4. Engage in social networking sites and portray yourself any way you want to in the forums. They don’t know anything about you!

But, unfortunately, freelance writing will never be a sexy career. Too straight-laced and professional. But, if it does ever become one that’s considered sexy, I am voting myself as the Freelance Writer Beauty with a centerfold spread and everything. But, I hope they don’t call me until after I shake the Yogurt Bites out of my computer keyboard, get the toy Transformers and X-men out from under my chair and put my Christmas tree back in the attic.

I DO want to look sexy, you know.