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.

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

SomeMichGuy · M

You could say you are a freelance editor.

Some people have good language skills, others struggle. This is true everywhere.

RedGrizzly · 26-30, F

@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...😂😂😂

SomeMichGuy · M

@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?

SomeMichGuy · M

@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]

😊😊😊👍👏