Are writers who work for themselves only more qualified than the ones working for companies?

In theory, a good and resourceful freelance writer who manages to find and maintain a steady flow of clients (mostly by word of mouth advertising) is better / more qualified than a writer who is only waiting for orders supplied by companies. A poor writer cannot thrive in the competitive environment of thousands of online writers so he or she has to rely on company orders (and be forced to work for lower rates).

Is this hypothesis true or false? :)

You usually need to be an expert in any field before going solo. I work for a engineering company full time because I'm still several years from being knowledgeable & experienced enough to head out on my own. I imagine the same goes for writing. If you can cast out on your own and keep the wolf from the door, you're likely a very good writer or a great businessman, or possibly a little of both.

On the other hand, there are obviously exceptions to the rule. I know a couple of deplorable engineers with great clientele, and I can only imagine it's because they specialize in trivial/redundant work that couldn't possibly do any harm to anyone. It's possible the writing world has prosperous 'D-quality' writers much in the same way the civil engineering world has a plethora of unimaginative hacks ruining small parking lots all day long with ineffective grading studies.

Then again, if you don't like drumming up work, and have a good thing going with the company you work for, who's to say you're worse off than an entrepreneur?

FreelanceRewriter is D-expert. D always guarantee. lolz

One advantage of working for companies is that you don't have to deal with becoming a target for barely-English-speaking fools who resent the fact that you can actually express yourself coherently in writing so much that they make every thread about you, even when you haven't posted in it. All anybody new to this forum needs to do to identify genuine professional writers and distinguish them from these kinds of idiots is just click on their respective user names and check their posting history. Generally, real writers contribute substantively to forum topics, interact respectfully with other legitimate writers, never instigate malicious conflict with others (especially) totally unprovoked, and even offer good-natured help to competitors new to the business. Meanwhile, those who can't even compose a single grammatically-correct sentence in the language they purport to "write" for money never contribute substantively to any forum thread and do absolutely nothing here other than stalk and trash the real writers against whom that can't even hope to compete successfully. I encourage anybody who wants to see whether or not that's true to just check this fool's entire posting history and then check mine:

You D-expert I dont arguing it.

Beside, Dreisler from first look have superior writing skill then you do, he is much better writer and has natural writing skill. Your writing style is bored and forced like government job.

Certainly, your demonstrated writing ability on this forum makes you an appropriate judge. Customers who want their projects written exactly as well as your posts (and anybody who values your opinion about anything having to do with writing in English) should obviously contact you immediately.

I'll let you know how it works out. I've made a decent income this past year by working for companies and have just decided to strike out my own. I have a PhD, a decent research career, publication record, etc. I currently work as a researcher and the essay writing gig gives me an income greater than what the average tenure track professor makes. The essay writing biz has been relatively easy for me so far, however I'd like to not have to pay the company fees and maybe filter out the difficult students. I specialize in science topics and I get the sense that a lot of my colleagues are not as qualified as myself. And I'm no great writer as I'm sure some troll will point out in short order.

Many of my clients have sought my particular expertise, which is based in rigorous scientific inquiry. Most freelancers I see around do not have this, so my competition is less compared to those with non-science backgrounds. In these cases, I have been able to command a higher fee. Other clients want science-based work, but don't understand what this entails. On at least one of the company sites and through some of the posts seen here I can see that this hasn't ended well.

At the risk of sounding like an elitist jerk, I'll say that I am better qualified than what my companies typically offer to students and tend to get the better quality jobs as a result. By better quality jobs, I mean that I get students who know what they want as well as those who are looking for high marks. I think (and hope) that your hypothesis is mostly correct. For now, I would not sever my ties because the company work is relatively steady and safe.

Many of the students are not looking for high quality. So maybe the hypothesis needs to be adjusted. Low quality writers will thrive as long as there is sufficient demand. Higher quality writers will float to the top, just like in anything other profession. And from what I can see from this site and others, there are people looking for high quality writers. The problem seems to be that these students have to wade through a mess of low quality companies and scammers until they find us. But these high quality students are looking for us because they don't have time. This means that they will most likely bite the bullet after a certain point and just writing the effing paper.

I'd be happy to hear from anybody about how we can bring together the high quality writers and students.

Oh Major. I just realized that you are troll. Since 2006? That's an awesome lifespan for a troll.

Anyway, after reading some and mostly skimming through the amazing number of posts that you have made, it seems clear that you have a serious beef with freelance writers. You also seem to not believe that the freelancers actually make any more than what a company can offer. You've done a really good job at pulling people into senseless arguments all for the sake of pushing your single-minded agenda. It is as if you want to be the Sam Walton of the ghostwriting world.

If the writer is working for a legitimate academic outsourcing company, then yes, he must be highly qualified as a writer. He will not be hired by the company if he isn't. He is more qualified in the sense that English is is first language, not second, nor third. Writers who work for themselves should be of an equal or higher caliber than an ENL writer hired by a company. Both of these writers are expected to adhere to a higher academic standard than the run of the mill essay writing company writer. In fact, an independent writer needs to display a wider expertise on a vast array of topics. That is because his business requires him to be able to fulfill his direct client needs regardless of the given topic. He must be a "Jack of all trades, master of none" so to speak. That is, as opposed to the academic outsourcing company writer who has the option to pass on certain orders beyond his abilities. Considering these factors, I would have to say that yes, writers who work for themselves may be seen as more qualified than the writers who work for companies.

Writers need to be qualified to write in several fields of study, regardless of whether or not he is working for himself. That is because the writer will not be able to choose the type of work that a client comes to him to work on. Therefore, a basic to intermediate knowledge of several fields will work best for independent writers. That means fewer orders that they will have to turn away or pass on to friends within their network for an earning split type of work. It doesn't make a difference if you work solo or a company. When you work for a company, the work will automatically pass onto the next writer in the system until somebody actually accepts to do the work.

Whether that person is qualified or not is never a major issue for the company because all that matters is that they get to assign the work. They can worry about the revisions later. That is what I learned from my clients who end up coming to me asking for help because an unqualified writer was assigned to do their work for them. I end up having to write the paper from scratch because of it.

I've been in that boat more times than I can count. Clients should be able to have some type of background on their writers whether the writer is independent or working with a company. That said, clients cannot reply on the company providing valid information on the writer's experience. When a client asks me about my experience, I am honest. If my experience is not the same as their project (a project that may be a challenge), I make it clear and explain my confidence level and what I can/cannot do. That gives us the opportunity to discuss the challenges first and put together a mutually agreeable plan of action (i.e. start with a few pages to see if I can meet the challenge). I also make sure the client understands that the few pages are not refundable. Ideally, I prefer 1-2 pages as it's less of a loss for the client if the work is more than I want to engage or he/she doesn't like my samples. 9.9 times out of 10, though, I simply decline projects I feel are too challenging. That's saying a lot, because I love a challenge. ;)

With a company, however, I have work with some in the past that has asked me to provide a brief background statement for inquiring clients. I've been happy to do it. Whether they gave the client my statement, I don't know. I assume they did... after all, why even ask? They could give a statement of their choosing and I would be none the wiser -- nor would the client.

I would have to say yes, writers who work for themselves are far better qualified to write papers than those who work for companies. That is because the independent writer is constantly training and honing his craft. He is constantly studying various fields and making sure that he can properly address any paper and topic that the student might throw his way. An independent writer will never let an order pass him by if he can help it. He will always be at the top of his game because his income depends upon it.

I believe this is largely a moot point, simply because almost anybody who writes for essay companies also takes work from direct clients whenever possible. This is equally true for writers who are highly talented and extremely experienced and for writers whose work is atrocious and who really have no business charging anybody money for their writing in the first place. The best essay-company writers eventually manage to cultivate a sufficiently large clientele that they no longer need to take any company projects at all. So, to the extent the point isn't moot, I'd suggest that it's only at the two far ends of the quality spectrum: writers who are good enough to make a living without relying on any essay-company work are probably the best of the best; conversely, the worst of the worst are probably writers who can't even get hired by any essay companies. In between those two extremes, whenever you receive work from an essay company, it's almost always written by someone who also takes direct freelance work, and whenever you receive work from an independent writer, it's almost always written by someone who also writes for essay companies.

It is difficult to say that a writer who works for himself would have a wider skillset than a writer who works for a company. An independent writer tends to stay within his comfort zone, rarely challenging himself to write about topics and subjects that he could be unfamiliar with. A company attached writer, sees the orders, considers the CPP and decides if he can challenge himself to write the topic and do it well. The skillset should not change in relation to the employment status.

My comfort zone with new areas expanded tremendously over time, but strictly as a function of experience, not whether my projects came from essay companies or my private clients. However, I'd agree that independent writers are likely to be much more careful about always erring on the safe side, primarily because our own reputations mean much more to us than the reputations of essay companies that merely employed us along with hundreds of other writers.