I never went to college.

I've always worked for skills/experience; yet there's someone in my family that goes to a uni, about to earn her bachelor's, and asks for my help? She always has me edit her papers. At times, I may actually rewrite entire paragraphs as well...and she gets A's for it. Hahaha It's funny, I see it as a compliment but I feel like it's [b]our[/b] degree now. 😂😂😂
I don't know if editing college papers/responses is something I can put on my resume under freelance writing. Could I? Or is that "illegal"? I don't know.

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TexChik · F

You don't need a degree to be smart.

RedGrizzly · 26-30, F

@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.

TexChik · F

@RedGrizzly Awesome!