I Struggled to Find a Job After College. To Pay Rent, I Started Doing Something Highly Controversial.

I Have a Warning for Everyone. Consider this my open admission. When I graduated from UC-Berkeley with my "useless" comparative literature degree, into one of the bleakest job markets in recent American memory, I thought to myself, . That was what brought me to marketing myself as an "academic editor," and an "admissions essay advisor," on various freelancing websites last fall. I figured I had done my fair share of editing for friends throughout the years, and I needed another gig to supplement my inconsistent substitute-teaching paychecks.