I never went to college.

@TexChik For sure. It just astounds me because I'm actually self taught. For whatever reason, in school, English/writing was a [big]HUGE[/big] weakness. Maybe, I was wore out sitting around in classes for 8 hours everyday but I just couldn't gasp what my English teachers were trying to teach. The other subjects were fine though, especially my science courses were blown out of the water, but somehow I managed to graduate without knowing how to write properly. It was daunting knowing this is a [b]skill[/b] I'm going to need for work regardless, so on my own time I taught myself by participating in writer's workshops and relearning the basics. I'd write stories, papers, poetry, journalism ect... for practice and began learning advance types of writing that prepares you for college or is taught in college. Now here we are: my fam is having me edit their papers, bosses telling my my emails and reports are next level, and now there's a potential income I can earn from it. 😂😂😂
Zero to hero. I can't imagine what my former teachers would think now if I told them what I'm doing.

@RedGrizzly Awesome!

I hated school, I stayed in long enough to keep my mother out of jail, then when I turned 18 poof, I disappeared

@HumanEarth and all that just goes to show that the system didn't play you, you played the system. That's a huge success story right there!

@jehova Thank you! I was wondering about that because I am gonna run with it and see about getting my foot in the door with freelancing! Gotta have two incomes now days.

@RedGrizzly truth

@IM5688 for sure!!!

@SomeMichGuy it's funny because I'm self taught. I didn't learn squat about it in school but not for the lack of the teachers trying...it just wasn't my strong suit. After I graduated, on my downtime I went back to basics all the way to learning college level writing and English. It helped to read a lot of books and papers as well. I'm asked to help out with it? Lol it's a whole 180. Now, if I can strengthen my math skills is another story...😂😂😂

@RedGrizzly Math is not anywhere near as hard as languages, because it is logical and regular. It's just poorly taught (quite often), and in the US, our poor performance in STEM is likely due to the number of early teachers who come from backgrounds such that they depend upon the "Teacher's Editions" of every textbook for answers.

At its root, every new area of math is about the answers to two questions:

• What "things" (data types) are we going to use as our "stuff to work with" (integers, complex numbers, vectors, tensors, etc.)?

and

• What are the "operations" we are going to use on these things/data types?

@RedGrizzly Frankly, putting your emphasis on language *first* was very clever, because a person who can read well can make up for other deficiencies. You can't say that about other fields.

So good for you--good that you understood you needed it, that you worked at it, that you acquired a degree of proficiency such that *others* can now benefit from *your* knowledge!

[b]THAT is true learning; your studying "took"! [/b]

😊😊😊👍👏

@cherokeepatti good to know! I may include it then! 😁

@RedGrizzly should build up a list of references and positive reviews

@cherokeepatti Definitely, I thought myself or the student would get in trouble if I start blabbing about how much I was editing their work. 😂 But if I can use them as a reference alongside samples of my work (not their papers but pieces written entirely by myself) then I'll be in good shape. Gotta start somewhere!