Yes, it works.

One of the biggest worries I had when I started out with Paypal was that this faceless entity would find some way to swallow my meager earnings. It’s stupid and unfounded and unnecessarily paranoid. Trust me, I know. But for someone raised to never trust even the most reliable of banks, a foreign web …erm… thing doesn’t seem like the most believable way to handle the product of my sweat and tears.
I signed up with Paypal because I didn’t have better options. In case …

First things first. I’m not some super-guru of writing. I just like to write, and I happen to write for a living (or side-living, if you want to be specific. I have a day job; no it does not consist of panhandling). It’s not exactly easy money, trying to earn a bit more from freelance writing. Late nights, eye strain, eyebags that stretch to China — you get the drift.
Then again, people I meet seem to think writing is easy. Darling, it isn’t. …