Freelancers increasingly are taking on assignments like customer service, data entry, writing, accounting, human resources, marketing, payroll, accounting — and virtually any "knowledge process" that can be performed remotely.
Many of my favourite pictures were taken on assignment but not for the assignment.
The photographs, taken on assignment for US magazines during the second world war and the late 1940s and early 1950s, reveal Capa – one of the masters of black-and-white photography – to have been an early practitioner of colour work.
McCann-Erickson New York takes on assignments for Electrasol dishwasher detergent, Jet Dry dishwasher rinse agent and Lime-A-Way household cleaners.
They take on assignments not just for the money even though, like Ervine James in Snakeskin, they can be scraping the bottom of the barrel.
The company, in Red Hook since 1986, has recently taken on assignments like building an exact replica of the 1952 Todayy" show set for NBC and making the trees for the biodiversity exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, which challenged the designers.
Bebop follows Spike Spiegel and Jet Black, two bounty hunting "cowboys" who take on assignments to make enough money to eat and fuel the Bebop, their interplanetary ship.
He said his interests lay in "taking on assignments where I can continue to improve the process and make the agency or the state more efficient, use less taxpayer dollars".
The McLean, Va., office of Arnold Worldwide, part of the Arnold Worldwide Partners unit of Havas Advertising, has ended its two-year relationship with PNC Bank, after taking on assignments from another banking client, the Citizens Financial Group.
In addition to taking on assignments from businesses, he teaches at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management Center at the Claremont Graduate School in California, and continues to read voraciously.
Like Mr. Greene, she has allowed NGOs, that she thinks do good work, to use photos she first took on assignment for editorial clients.
