Seriously though, what's the best way to go about becoming an essay writer? I've seen one example of the work from essay writers while at university (a friend bought one) and it was absolutely awful. If I were getting paid as much as I know he paid, I'd definitely put the hours in to produce something decent.

From what I can gather most sites are very, very dodgy. Is there an easy way to cut the middleman?

Cheers Fracture, the site looks so bad I don't see why anyone would buy from them in the first place!

The site I have experience with is Oxbridge Essays - I've had them try to recruit me, too, but I hear bad things about them all round.

Well I am a Cambridge graduate (though only a first year when they tried to recruit me walking the streets!), but I've got no idea what idiot wrote the work I've seen. Seriously, I wouldn't have handed it in as a bit of supervision work, let alone a dissertation. But it passed the plagiarism detector, to be fair.

I'm doing analytical stuff at the moment and have already cancelled my company pension - I won't give you an essay on why it's not worth my bothering with a pension.

I'm just not a fan of the 9-5 and really do want a lot more flexibility, while keeping up with my academic interests. Cheers for the lil pep talk though, phee :)