My writing job brings me 25-30% LESS than in the last couple of years. Students order less essays?

I make 25-30% less now than last year (or 2 years ago). There are less orders on websites I have an account set up. What's going on?

There could be two reasons:

1. Students order less essays (they don't have as much money as they used to).
2. There's too much competition (orders are distributed among more services and freelance writers).

Do other essay writers experience the same? Is it because the US government shut down? :)

Work on research skill. Many Freelance Re-Writers fail coz they can only write but cannot research topic proper way. Students dont like Wikipidia rewriters.

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.

You are right, some of my friends have said the same thing. It got so bad with some companies that they delayed writer payments because they have problems with cash flow.

I think it is a signal that academia market bubble is about to burst, and when it does all of us will be jobless. Students cannot afford to go to school anymore.

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.

I think we need to diversify at this point, in times like this it is dumb to keep all eggs in one basket.

...and by the way, students have abandoned this forum and essaychat as well, only blind does not see it.

Some students may have (temporarily) stopped seeking help from example research services because they don't have as much money as they used to have. There are also other possible reasons:

- The foreign services have taken over by deception (they claim to be located in the US/UK/Australia but in fact they operate from a third world country where the operation cost is only a fraction of the legitimate services),

- The online freelance writing market is over-saturated (becoming a "freelance writer" is still the easiest way of starting making money online),

- Writing an essay has become "easier" thanks to the availability of the Internet and free research resources.

But despite of that, I think it's just a temporary trend because deception cannot prevail over the truth and students start to learn to differentiate between good and bad writing. Paying $5 less per page and receiving garbage does not make it a good deal ;).


As I pointed out in another thread, I think students seek fast solutions - they click on the ads and find a provider. IF the provider (advertiser) sucks, they come back and complain. They don't have to sign up just to ask 'please recommend a writing service' any more.

I sense a slowdown but also cannot put my finger on the reason. I wonder if instructors are assigning fewer papers or if overall enrollments are down or something. As another poster said, it's best to be diversified with several types of writing going on. The problem is, when essay season hits its peak (in a good year) it's hard to stay diversified, as the essays have away of consuming every hour of every day.

nah...I think it is more troubling trend than that, it is here to stay and it will get worse. For example, China's economy is slowing down, hence less international students being able to afford essays. I highly doubt it is caused by Paki writing for 2.50 per page.

All indications that I've seen are that U.S. enrollments from China are still on the rise.

.... but something is definitely up, you cannot deny that.

The sequester ;)

Agree. I just don't know what it is.

-As another poster said, if the quality isn't there, the students won't stick with them, as many of the international students are rich and not price-sensitive, anyway.

-People will tell you that any business is "oversaturated," especially if they'd prefer you not get into it. If I said I was going to start a hot dog stand in my town, I guarantee you someone would say the hot dog market's saturated. And then someone with less self-doubt would start a stand and make all the hot dog money that I was supposed to make. In the case of essays, despite the proliferation of services, I get the sense that the problem is one of demand, not supply.

-I'm leaning toward this one. I would not be the least bit surprised if someone in one of the larger Asian countries known for "extensive use of model essays" has a new generation of software out that's ruining us. There has always been a tendency for the international students to find a paper in their own language and run it through Google Translate. The problem was that the results were rotten. If someone has tidied up the process a bit, we may need to find a new career.

Good point. I've heard the translation business for individual translators is about dead (thanks Google ; ). On the other hand, Google will NEVER enter the example essay research market (they "only" provide more and more free tools for students helping them with their research), so it's a huge plus ;).

It's very easy for anyone to set up a semi-professional looking website now and claim to be a serious writing company. I seriously doubt there are less essay orders, particularly as the economy has supposedly gotten better over the last few years and the government is still handing out 20k in student loans to whoever has a high school diploma. There are just too many poor quality, low cost writers taking business away from the few quality freelancers and companies.

Peddler was right -he got janitor job in theater.

FreelanceRewriter next - Hala got him job in New York penthouse as usher.

Actually, I'm doing just fine and not complaining at all about any recent decrease in work volume; that's why I don't need to continually attack and lie about any of my competitors here, much less totally unprovoked and to the complete exclusion of a single substantive post on the topic of any thread conversation. Then again, I don't really understand your vicous hatred, since I specialize in an entirely different subset of clients than you do: namely, those who require a writer who speaks English well enough that taking their hard-earned money for writing in it isn't tantamount to stealing from them.

Hala pay you better than deserve. Pay cut next month.

Student loan from amerikan tax payer is not hard earned money. Go back to skool for 101 research class.

OP: Personally, I think the reason your earning power has flagged is that students are ordering "fewer" of your essays, and, by the extension of that impeccable logic, you probably shouldn't be writing them essays in English. In other words, your reputation is preceding you.

Actually it is caused by a saturation of writers. The writing industry is too open,,e.g every student with a laptop in our campus are supposed writers. The number of writers is growing at a dangerous pace.

I think that what you meant to say is, "Actually, it is caused by a saturation of writers. The writing industry is too open; every student with a laptop on our campus is supposed writer. The number of writers is growing at a dangerous pace."

Subject-verb agreement is a pretty basic lesson in English, but it's also very fundamental.

I have a few questions for you now:

1. What makes you think you can write people academic essays when you can't string together a couple of sentences in simple English on a message board?

2. To which "number" are you specifically referring in the above (edited) quotation?

To me, it looks like you're making excuses.

*a supposed writer.

Let me answer your questions first
1. I am not an academic writer, I used to be but I stopped. Nowadays I am more of a blogger and one of my blogs is on online income, and that is why you will find me lurking around this site.

2. I didn't get your question.

Now its my turn.
I really don't get what is wrong with the likes of you. Why would you go around correcting peoples grammar on a message board! Well pardon me for not observing all English grammar rules and for not passing my post through grammarly, perfectit and the likes.

I also have a few questions for you.

1. Why are you a d?
A. You are a social misfit.
B. You dad touched you when you were 5.
C. Your only friend is your right arm.
D. All of the above.

Hint. A, B and C are not correct.

You're right... I shouldn't just be checking people's grammar randomly. There should be a reason. In your case, the reason was that you were making excuses for your inability to communicate in effective enough written English to be a success in the essay writing industry. Good luck with your blog, lol.

By the way, you can insult me all you want... as I am a complete stranger to you, and therefore tabula rasa, you are only exposing your own inadequacies.

One of the factors that seems to be overlooked in this over saturated market is the fact that there are also students, physically located in the universities who may also be doing the private writing job gigs for their dorm-mates, classmates, or some other random student who happened to hear of their availability with regards to writing services. Thinking in the larger context of the discussion, the students already know that there are scam websites, problematic private writer services, and some other related problems. The need for an academic writer is not negated by these problems. Rather, it makes the students more cautious regarding the services that they hire. Like @Major said, writing essays has become much easier these days because of the proliferation of online sources alongside the physical sources like libraries, interviews, etc. If a college student enrolls in just enough course requirements to qualify as a part time student, he will have the time to be available to his peers as an academic writer. These students, who dabble in the writing gigs are usually the ENL students who see a window of opportunity and decide to take it. While there may not be that many of them in existence on campus, and they are most likely spoken of in hushed whispers among the students, I believe that there are enough of them to have an effect on the academic company and private writer based orders. It is easier to request for revisions, prices can be better negotiated, TOS is not a very big issue, and both students have something to lose if one of them decides to report the "model" paper to the university authorities.

This is one of the main reasons, but it's also due to the rise of competition, albeit a lower quality competition in many cases. Like the newest gadget, some students want to try the new and lower priced options, but in the end, they'll be back for real quality. In the meantime, as I said on an different and entirely unrelated post, don't put all your eggs in one basket. This is especially true if you can do more than just write excellent papers. If you are a great writer with other skills (SPSS, Stata, graphics, etc.), you have more options for finding work.

If anything, I can attest to the exact opposite. Over the last two years I have had about 20% yearly increase in both customers and orders. Also, the companies I sometimes write for have had mixed results. While one company increased its traffic, two experienced the opposite effect.

Right now, there are writers who are not making any cash at all. The school shutdown and revised class attendance has made it more difficult for students to get access to the writers for hire. That is because some parents have decided that since the kid studies from home, he doesn't need an allowance. No allowance means no money to hire writing services. That translates to a lost market for the academic writers. Those writers have now been forced to learn a new trade in terms of writing and/or actually doing a job other than writing from home because of the lack of an actual academic writing market. The economic outlook for academic writers and writing companies tend to be a bit gloomy these days but I am not losing hope that there will also be a sense of new normal for our line of work, where everyone can once again earn from the academic writing needs of the students.

Do you have any sort of proof or reference for your increasingly ridiculous-sounding Covid excuses?

I think it is about time that this discussion is updated. Since I am no longer an active academic writer, I would like to find out how AI has affected the ability of the writers to earn these days. Has there been a downward trend in terms of order placement? How much less, percentage-wise, is your income? How have you managed to stave off the AI competition and retain your current client base? Has there been any client base increase for some of you?

I don't usually comment on other people's grammar and word usage here unless they presume to criticize that of others, first, or they promote their writing services in posts full of flagrant mistakes, but this post about the "fewer"/"less" and "number"/"amount" (etc.) distinction reminded me of this hysterical old thread:

https://essayscam.org/forum/es/academic-help-verification-656/#msg8985