Need to become a freelancer, tired of being leeched by the companies!!!

After just over 3000 pages of high quality writing (am not bragging by the way), it has come to my realization that I have not fully benefited from my hard work. I am supposed to feel satisfied with what am doing; instead, what i get is not on level pegging with what i give - quality. As such, i think its time i became a freelancer - deal directly with clients. But something tells me this is not easy, with issues of trust and all. But hey, a guy has got to try. Any advice on how to start? Or should i, if i may use the term i find best suited to describe by situation, continue being LEECHED? Kind of adapted to that now! :D.

What? Tired of shilling for the pensters?

Something like that, :)

As usual, your moronic ejaculations have won over common sense.

I truly agree with you. These companies are taking advantage of us. We struggled to get ourselves educated, only for some non-educated fellows to open up agencies, which pay us like we do not deserve the rightful dues for the quality we produce. I think i need to try it out too. After all, "A man is still a man!"

If you're working for a company that you don't like and that isn't paying you enough, there's a really simple solution: stop working for them. ******** about it here and then continuing to take and complete orders is just dumb.

Queenie, as usual your comment makes several assertions without being backed up by logic or reality at all. Welcome back.

Open agency if you smart intelligent or get lost.

Am not here to engage you in useless exchange of chats!

Really, each post has a date and time stamp. This thread hasn't seen any action in over a year.

And yet you responded to it...

Here's the thing, being leeched comes with certain perks. The biggest of which is never having to look for a client or wonder where the next batch of work will be coming from. If you strike out on your own, you will need to handle your finances quite delicately as you try to build your client base. Which will also be difficult because the market is saturated with both freelance writers and academic writing companies. In my opinion, you shouldn't break out on your own. You should instead work on diversifying your writing skills.

Think beyond academic writing and student assignment assistance prospects.

Look at other options in the same field. Paid blogging, e-novel writing, and ghostwriting are but a few careers you can move into if you feel you have the talent for it. Academic writing is still a viable market for most writers. It's just that the pay is becoming a bigger issue every year.

While I admit that being leeched is a bad thing, sometimes, one simply has to bite the bullet in order to survive. It's your call to make.

For many years, I relied almost exclusively on essay companies for my writing income. At no time did I consider the company to be "leeching" off of me, simply because I accepted their work with full understanding of what my pay would be and that they were in the business of selling the work produced by their writers. It takes a long time to build up your own clientele in this business and while it's certainly preferable to keep 100% of the market price of your work, new writers probably need essay companies much more than established essay companies need new writers. Certainly, do your best to cultivate your own clientele and transition to working for yourself as soon as that becomes viable for you; but understand that nobody is forcing you to write for any essay company and that you don't really have any valid basis to call them "leeches" as long as your reliance on them is voluntary and they pay you exactly what they promise to pay you for your work.

In 2018, the chances of becoming a successful 'essay writer' when starting from scratch are pretty slim. I noticed some foreign (especially Ukrainian / Russian) services have been spamming a promotion: "Our prices start from $5 per page!" The problem is, such services don't use writers at all; they have programmers to auto-generate garbage (sometimes they first translate Russian texts into English and use their software to paraphrase it).

It's amazing how many entities continue to try to generate income from the custom-essay-writing industry without ever actually providing any real custom-written-essay services. Their target market seems to be the same ever-continuing list of one-time customers to rip off one way or another.

Don't be a sucker for punishment. Just because you are used to it doesn't mean that you should live your live permanently being abused by the third rate essay writing companies. While it may definitely be difficult to get your independent writing business off the ground at first, it is the eventual option for any academic writing company writer. I have had friends who stayed with their respective writing companies for more than 10 years before they gained the gumption to strike out on their own.

Granted that they had some help from me when they were getting started ( I would throw a few clients their way to introduce them in the business), they eventually learned that there are more benefits to be gained from being self-employed in this seasonal business than if they had stayed on with the writing company. They floundered for a bit at the start but right now, they are on steady footing with a steady stream of clients, earning independently and properly. They receive the proper payment for the required quality of work.

While we do often work a lot of hours, we can be more flexible, and receiving proper payment for the quality of work we provide generally evens out based on what one would make within a lower paying company. For example, if I can spend 5 hours and make $100 versus 30 hours for the same amount with a "company," you know which I'll choose.

I'm not saying that no one should write for a company because there are some great ones out there. You just have to be selective and make sure the company you join pays its writers decently (and on time!). Personally, for those who can juggle both sides of the coin (company and independent work), that's also a good way to go.

While I do agree that being leeched by the companies should never be acceptable in any form, I will agree that the regular income they provide, though variable, is of tremendous help to writers. That said, I would never advise a writer who is attached to a company to totally give up the affiliated writing scheme. Instead, I would ask him to try and combine affiliated writing with freelance writing. Nobody ever said that he could not strike out on his own and try to build his personal client base while still getting whatever little benefits the company writing gig offers him. Never quit your job when you do not have a strong replacement in place. Quit writing for the company only if you are already earning more than enough from your independent writing gigs. Ensure a steady stream of work first because that will be the first thing to go the minute you let go of the writing company gig.

These days, writers who are still actively attached to writing companies no longer mind if they earn nickels and dimes or pennies on a page. What is important to them is that they are still getting regular work from the writing companies. That is not the case for independent writers who have to source their clients on their own and apply for the writing job, if it is possible to get hired. Yes, the companies still continue to leech their writers but, all things considered, it is still better to have a partner out there looking for clients for you, than having to do it yourself. So consider the leeching their finders fee instead and you won't be so irritated about it anymore.

Most of us whose high-quality work enabled us to cultivating a private clientele already transitioned to 100% independence years ago, as soon as we were able to do so. Now that some of those same essay companies have substantially reduced their payout, it's a pretty safe bet that the only writers still working for them are desperate for work, because they don't write well enough to provide a quality product, in the first place, and never could have pursued any other options.