Freelance Writer Seeks Work (Please Hire Me)
Seriously, August is awful for my chosen (mostly by ADHD) career
I really thought I’d have the article on “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” out by now, but I just hit one of those “oh shit, is this story about Cheever’s bisexuality?” moments and now I’m going to have to revise the thing a few more times. I still hope to get it out into the world by tomorrow night at latest. It’s a long winding story and I quite love it, so hopefully it will be worth it.
The main reason why I didn’t work on it today was because I’m looking for work. I sent out my resume. I posted flyers. Sadly, I got kicked off of Reddit so that money making stream is dead. I haven’t had a writing gig for two weeks and I’m depleting my savings. There’s also the whole five months late on the rent factor (here’s my Gofundme if you’d like to just help). It’s a minor miracle that the landlord hasn’t filed eviction papers. He likes me. I don’t make too much noise. My rent is twice that of my neighbors. I live in New York City which has strong tenant laws. However, none of these factors guarantee against eviction, especially with the downturn in jobs in recent years.
Two major factors have brought me here. First, Motherfucking ChatGPT has taken many of my jobs. Sometimes I write for businessmen who want to self-publish their memoirs. Most of the time, I write for college students, who either can’t or won’t write their own papers. Some college students are adults with families and responsibilities who don’t have the time to take online classes. Other times, they are just students who took more classes than they can handle. Other students are engineering students who don’t have time to care about their film studies class (I love those students) and sometimes they are just lazy. I don’t judge. As long as they pay.
Now they go to ChatGPT which pukes out a free paper. Yes, professors can tell that these are obvious frauds, but many professors don’t care. Instead of paying me $25/hour, my potential clients are letting AI generatae a free paper and taking their chances. The smarter ones are doing what they used to do with Chegg and similar paper mills (those poor bastards) which is to take the paper and revise it enough to hide its origins.
In other words, I’m fucked.
Same goes for my short jobs. Those jobs were never profitable, but an extra $50 to write a “Please don’t kick me out of university” appeal or “I want to be a doctor because my grandma died” personal statement did help. Now those can easily be completed with ChatGPT. I’m not even mad about that.
Of course, I can write a better paper than ChatGPT and since I write it from scratch, there’s no problems with plagiarism.
I also do background acting jobs, but I haven’t done one of those since And Just Like That in December 2022. That job gave me covid-19. Then there was a fucking strike in 2023 so there went those jobs.
Either way, August is a slow month for most of my easy academic jobs, so here is my academic writing ad. If you know anyone who is taking an online class or struggling, please send them the following.
Tim Lieder - Term Paper Writer
Freelance writer who has been writing academic papers, personal statements and taking online classes since 2008. I have a masters in English and have written papers for everything from economics to film theory to psychology. Most recently I've taken nursing classes for clients who need the degree to advance in their careers.
I have done jobs as small as one page papers and as large as doctoral thesis editing (when the doctoral candidate is so burnt out they don't even want to hear about their thesis subject)
Writing samples can be found at
(side note - From Brenda, I learned that 90210 was REALLY popular in Mexico. There are a LOT of women named Brenda Rodriguez in the world)
I charge $25/hour. It takes me approximately an hour a page but varies depending on how much I need to research the topic.
I give a quote and stick to it (unless it takes me less time)
Please contact me at omanlieder@yahoo.com
Other Writing & Editing Jobs
That said, I don’t necessarily love writing academic papers. They can get overwhelming and I don’t want to ghost write for college students for the rest of my life. There are reasons why I have a subscribe button on every article I publish. I’m also a writer and an editor. I edited several books through Dybbuk Press including King David and the Spiders from Mars
I’ve also written personal statements, personal letters and memoirs. For a few months, I had a great job with a company that assisted retirees in writing their memoirs for their families. I edited many chapters on books about Holocaust survival and New Jersey zoning laws.
Sadly, that guy found a permanent in-house editor.
Legitimate Writing Gigs
Freelance writer/editor available for all jobs. I have been writing for private clients since 2008. My most prominent editing work has been through dybbuk press, an independent publisher.
Writing sample:
I am available for all work including
* resumes
* ghost writing
* memoir edits
* promotional content
* personal statements
* novel edits
I do not use ChatGPT or any AI
I charge $25/hour. I take zelle, paypal and venmo. I've recently started taking cashapp and chime. Please contact me at omanlieder@yahoo.com if interested.
Anyhow, thank you. If you need my services as a writer or editor, please contact me. I can also send my resume should you have a more permanent position available. I live in New York City, and I can work remote.
Buying Dybbuk Press books like Rashi by Maurice Liber would also help.
If you’d like to just help me out, again, you can donate to my Gofundme or