Elance also looks promising.

Demand Media says I am unqualified to write on pet health - they prefer people with ZERO veterinary background, I guess.

I can't believe you're "unqualified." That's the most ridiculous thing ever.

I've gotten a few small jobs, too, here and there.

It's amazing how cheaply some people want to pay....

I really think they don't know what a veterinarian is.


I just ignore the cheap jobs. Let them hire the hordes in India. They'll get what they pay for, which isn't much.

It shows.

No one with any education trusts a business that willingly promotes a website written in tortured English. If you cut corners communicating with me about your business to the point that you're making a fool out of yourself, you don't need writers; you need a career change.

I guess some Americans don't even notice the bad syntax and awkward phrasing, but it's like nails on a chalkboard to me. I just stop reading after a few sentences and close these sites.

And then I go on the freelance sites and see the jerks begging for rapid rewrites at the same abysmal wage.

pittance - I might have agreed to do it, even on the cheap, but........

when I read the original article, it was such a garbled, incomprehensible, word-salad-y mess that I could not discern the actual intent of the writing. I said NO THANKS.