Textbroker and Other Writing Places

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Hello to you all. How are you? Yesterday (I think it was yesterday), someone mentioned that they had been doing some work through Textbroker. Forgive me, I don't remember who it was. I remembered that I am an author on Textbroker as well. I went to check it out as I had entirely forgotten about its existence. I think I joined at the time I was looking for new sites, and signed up to several. I never got any clients from it and wasn't sure how to go about doing that. Anyway, I popped back on today and updated my profile. I'm still not sure that I'll get anything. There was another site I used to use called Constant Content. I don't remember much about it, but that was another one to which I tried to return. I believe I'd written a few things. There was one article, in particular, that I'd been wanting to find. I found it on Constant Content. I tried to log in - I couldn't, presumably because it had been such a long time that I had been on that they'd deactivated my account. I did have the option of trying again to be accepted by them. Strangely, however, my new application wasn't accepted. I say 'strangely' because I'd written for them before, my writing had improved since then, and I'd even got an English degree in that time. I thought it odd that they wanted my work before all that, but it was somehow not good enough now. Once I realised I wasn't going to be accepted again, I contacted Constant Content to ask if I could, at least, have access to the articles I'd written for them. I wasn't going to pay them the $25 they were asking for my own work. They contacted me back to ask me for some information, which I gave. I never heard from them again. It's nice to see that someone is earning from my work! The annoying thing is, I don't know if I saved that particular article anywhere else and it was a really good one! I digress on that one. I used to write for Bubblews and, before that, Helium. Neither of them exists any more. I now write for Vocal Media, where I write my own content and earn through newsfeeds. I don't really bother with places that offer set articles or specific writing jobs. The main reason for that is because, since Helium's Market Place, I haven't found anywhere that fits what I want to do in a way that works. I did have an advert on Journalism.co.uk. I got some work through that, but didn't have the money to renew my advert the last time! Do any of you have experience with Textbroker? Do you use anything similar, or any you would recommend? Or shall I just stick with offering my services privately without going through one of those third party sites? Edit: the discussion that inspired this was by @kobesbuddy