She had a baby and decided to go freelance.

她有了孩子，决定去做自由职业者。

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This perpetual cycle will produce overwhelmingly positive results. The opposite, however, can go so far as to kill your freelance business altogether.

这种周而复始的循环会产生压倒性的积极的结果。但是，只要你是言而无信的循环，那么你的自由职业生涯就会完全终结。

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In college, she studied journalism, and when she saw that reporter jobs seemed to go to men, she became a freelance writer.

在大学里她学习新闻专业，当她看到记者这一行业大都雇用男性时，她就成了一名自由撰稿人。

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Harold and Erica go to good schools, and pass through a series of haute bourgeois jobs museum curator, freelance consultant, corporate marketing functionary, author of mid-list historical biographies until, finally, the hyper-achieving Erica arrives as the chief executive of a cable company, and the ponderous Harold scores a sinecure at a neocon think tank, where he pastes David Brooks opinion columns into papers on public policy.

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