"There's No Work Out There" Is a Lie: 3 Places to Find Your Next Editing Clients

You keep hearing there's no editing work out there. Let me be clear: That is NOT true—and if your calendar has been empty, the problem probably isn't the market. It's that your ideal clients don't know you exist... yet.

In this episode of the Leaving Academia podcast, Paulina debunks the "no work" myth.

Although agency work is drying up as AI floods the low tier of the editing market, people in the higher tier—the scholars and writers who want to work with a real, talented human editor and want nothing to do with AI—are still hiring.

The catch? Those clients won't Google their way to your website on their own. You have to put yourself in front of them.

Paulina walks you through the three categories where high-tier private clients actually spend their time, and exactly what to do once you get there.

What we cover:

🚨 Why "there's no work" is really a visibility problem (and why agency contracts are disappearing)

🚨 The three categories of clients most editors overlook

🚨 How to reactivate past clients without feeling like a pest (the accountability-partner reframe that makes them grateful you emailed)

🚨 How to use LinkedIn and Facebook groups to find and connect with ideal clients, instead of posting into the void

🚨 Why "sales is service," and how showing up consistently beats showing up frantically

🚨 The 10-second elevator pitch that makes people remember exactly who to refer to you