What would essay writers do if they were not essay writers?

Question to academic essay writers. What would you do if you were not working as a freelance essay writer? What other professional careers you might be willing to explore?

Or maybe you have two professional careers (instead of freelance writing)?

I would be kind of a drunkard/circus clown combo. Or possibly a manw*0re.

It's not very much related to writing lol. I was thinking more about paid reviewer or something, but have no idea if there's market for it. Other than that, a professional movie reviewer sounds like fun too!

Writing is as close to a meritocracy as it gets. If you're good enough, you'll rise to the top. You have to think: Would people want to read my movie reviews? If so, there's a market!

Right, but there's too much competition (not only humans from low wage countries but also machines). Working online is getting tougher. I thought of becoming a teacher one day, maybe :).

If you're good enough, there's not much competition. And what competition there is, certainly isn't coming from the type of writers you're talking about or from machines. If you want to make it as a writer of any sort, focus on developing your skills and nothing else. (But teaching is the more reliable route for the majority of people.)

lol. Interesting. haha

The problem is, most website operators (companies) care about their bottom line and they have no problem working with an inferior writer from a developing country if they can pay him/her substantially less than a well-educated native English speaker. A student (client) doesn't see a big difference in quality, either (because he/she is not qualified enough to judge the writing/research quality).

There's always drinking and clowning.

I have pretty much ruled out a career in professional football ("You can be anything you want if you try hard enough" my ass.)

I recently had to admit to myself that pop stardom isn't in my future, even with the assistance of AutoTune.

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In law school, I worked as a fitness trainer, gym manager, bar bouncer, and as an athletic director. Then, I worked as a writer/editor for the U.S. government. If I'd have realized that I could make about the same living without having to leave my house, I'd have started doing this fulltime much sooner.

I would do something a lot more meaningful and a lot less tedious.

After I got out of the Army and my first daughter was born around 1980, I was looking around for something I could do at home so I could help raise her and read an article in Mother Earth News about a home-operated secretarial service. The article included a suggested price list and advice on getting typing and shorthand business from local universities and businesses. This was for me! This was pre-Internet and I typed hundreds of research papers written by students that really had to work at it (hours and hours at the library, index cards and so forth). I did this for 4 years and learned a lot about academic writing until a job offer from a law firm and the lure of a regular paycheck made me stop. All things considered, though, working at home is the best.

Still I have not seen essay writers if they were not essay writers because any writer connected to any firm or any community just less writers play that kind of role.

Yeah.

you really could not have said it better

If I said what my previous job was, I would be given a headache....

Did it involve a pole and uncomfortable shoes?

Yes, he was a javelinist.

I guess in some senses. You are referring to something academic right FreelanceWriter?


I'd take that!!!


Upon reflection, how the hell did you guess that?? I'm assuming your right of course

Because there aren't really too many jobs that would fit this description besides dealing drugs or stripping:

In my personal opinion, "fortune tellers," traditional chiropractors, and many types of stock brokers and used car salesmen deserve that "headache" a lot more than strippers, but I understand that isn't a particularly common societal point of view (with the possible exception of the fortune tellers). It may also be one of my first guesses because I sometimes have to remind my wife that she shouldn't worry about what any idiots think about the fact that she used to dance and because I used to work as a bouncer with her in a few of those places; but those were my personal opinions on the issue long before any of that, rather than the other way around.

I was thinking firefighters.

Writers would write poems.

There is a whole lot of opportunities out there such as blogging.

It would be better for them that they leave writing essay and one more option is they have to learn about how to write an essay. It is not an easy task on how to write an essay, one should have to learn about the critics and they have to intended to communicate with others. You have build new ideas and innovation to write essay on any topic.

Well, if not an essay writer, there are several other options to choose from. A gossip journalist, or if I had the craft for it, maybe a photographer or a painter or something. It all boils down to creation in the end..Feels like sort of close to writing. Or heck, maybe audition for a TV show or something. Get famous!

There are many options if you are not writing essays, you can write blogs, good articles for newspapers. Even you can start writing a book for a novel also. It is not necessary that if you are not writing essay then you can't write anything.

I would probably be working in one of the many writing related fields available.

My dream was to become a copywriter before, but when that turned out to be a dud, I turned to script writing, which led to academic writing.

Moving forward career-wise, I found myself becoming more and more drawn to the idea of becoming a novelist. I continue to pursue that activity and I still dabble in the fiction novel side of writing when time permits.

My ultimate dream is to become a political ghost writer.

I have always enjoyed writing speeches for various celebrities and company executives so I know I can make a go of that career.

Specially since I have been known to have strong political beliefs which I do not hesitate to blog about or post on social media.

Politicians need strong writers who are of the opinionated nature so I feel like I would flourish in that writing arena.

Now, if only I can find that one politician who doesn't have a ghost writer yet. Hahaha!

I'd be a shrink. Ironically, the specific reason I chose to go to law school instead of applying to graduate school for Psychology was that I was intimidated by the prospect of having to do all the writing typically associated with most grad school programs. In law school, you hardly do any writing except in one or two Legal Writing classes and one required major writing project; the only other writing you do is on your final exams that determine your entire grade for every class. So, I totally understand why my clients need my services and why this industry exists. If I'd had any idea that I could bang out 10-page grad school psych papers that were likely As in a single day on a regular basis way back then, I'd have pursued a career as a psychologist instead of a law degree in a field I never had specific intentions of entering after getting my degree. Either that or po%%, way back when there were only about 10 guys doing it and only one of them had anything even resembling a decent build.

Had I not fallen into the public service world of academic writing, I would no doubt have ended up as a published fiction novelist. I have always had an interest in fictional writing and have won several awards for my creative writing work in the past. However, my novelist dreams were placed on hold when I discovered that I did not have to be a starving writer when I could help students with their writing tasks and get paid major cash for it. My career alternative would have been to become an educator though as my degree is more closely aligned with student interaction and early education. I have always been a natural educator so it was not a surprise to most people that I ended up in a career that brought me closer to students, regardless of the field that I chose to specialize in.

I love writing. LOVE it. Period. If I didn't write academic projects, I would still write. Heck, I do write other things. I can't imagine my life without some type of writing in it.

I wouldn't say that I "love" writing; for me, writing for a living is just a matter of swimming with the current instead of against it, by doing what I happen to do better than anything else, naturally.

I work in both marketing and freelance writing and editing (sometimes proofreading). I've always treated essay writing as a side hustle to earn extra money than an actual daytime freelance job. However, I did consider before to make it into a full-time affair. But that doesn't mean I don't love my other jobs. I'm also quite passionate about the other job - it's just that freelance writing is sort of like my childhood love that I can't let go of. It's like even after all these years of looking through career paths, I always had to have some sort of writing on the side. It's like marketing and business are both my new-found loves - but writing is my first love. So, it's kinda known to me that if I ditched my writing job, I would be working on my other jobs more intensely. Probably gonna learning CSS and HTML more or something. Because then, I won't have anything else that would take me away from marketing-related tasks.

I would probably be a multimedia content producer. That would seem like the logical next step for someone who has a degree in Multimedia Development and Design. As a college student, I was doing both academic writing and web development jobs. The web development jobs were, at the time, too taxing for me physically. So I moved towards the academic writing field more and more. My folks were glad that I graduated with an actual, usable degree but still have to wrap their heads around the fact that I am making more money as an academic writer, with a pool of employees of my own. No actual office, no physical employees, just virtual everything. I hope that they will eventually understand how the workplace is way different from what they got used to. Right now, all they need to know and understand is that essay writing pays my bills.