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As of about noon today, I am part of the science editorial team at the company I've been working at since February. As such, I'll be doing editing, some of it not much different from what I'd been doing, in part because I'd rather stretched the definitions of "copyedit" and "proofread"--which is why they offered me this. Wendy described the first project she gave me, which is officially a manuscript edit, as being very similar to the copyedits I've been doing; the main difference so far is that I'm checking that the lessons that say they cover state standard n.nn really do so, and compiling an art log, which the writer didn't have time for. I'll also be doing other useful things like creating bookmaps (which say "table of contents, page 3; pretest, pages 6-24; lesson 1, page x…, with more or less flexibility depending on the company and the project).
There will be more money, but I don't know yet how much; if I don't hear from the temp agency by mid-afternoon tomorrow, I will call them. There is some possibility of this leading to full-time (as in, salaried, on staff, with benefits) employment at the company. Apparently whatever odd rule that won't let Simon hire any of his copyediting and proofreading temps directly may not apply to other editorial staff.
There will be more money, but I don't know yet how much; if I don't hear from the temp agency by mid-afternoon tomorrow, I will call them. There is some possibility of this leading to full-time (as in, salaried, on staff, with benefits) employment at the company. Apparently whatever odd rule that won't let Simon hire any of his copyediting and proofreading temps directly may not apply to other editorial staff.