How to figure out rates for freelancing: one blogger either says full price or free, but never "cheap."
Job search sites for writers: (and as with these, let the user beware, do your homework, don't pay money for job search services or placement services, etc.)
MediaBistro
Online Writing Jobs
"Ten Steps to Building a Freelance Writing Career" in PoeWar Writing Career Center by John Hewitt
Mike Mills of R.E.M. on a career as an artist:
"If you want to be a filmmaker or an artist or a designer, any of those things, that's like saying 'I want to be a pirate.' It doesn't really matter if you went to the right pirate school or not. How good are you at stealing stuff from other ships?"