Sorry, but I haven't changed anything in my job or work ethics. I mean, I work the same amount of time (roughly) and try to get as many orders as possible. But there are less orders than in the past years -- that's the biggest problem. I have writer accounts with four companies and three experience the same - less orders. The fourth one (which sometimes advertises here) is still doing fine -- but it doesn't grow either. The bad trend continues and I don't know why.

At least now I know I'm not the crazy one :). I know some excellent writers who started sending applications to other services. Some of them have even suggested to create their own websites. But I doubt it would help.