For the second year in a row–and for as long as I’ve been registered at Thumbtack–I’ve won their Best of Award for delighting 100% of the clients I’ve served. WOO HOO! Delighted to be an honoree–this year as an editor, last year as an essay writer!
Even so, I can’t figure out Thumbtack’s algorithm and how they come up with these awards decisions. Last year I landed at #3 in New York as an essay writer (which is ‘YUGE’, as two currently-running Presidential candidates pronounce it and as many other New Yorkers would pronounce it) since NY and LA are the publishing capitals of the world, and this year I landed at #8 in Philadelpia PA as an editor, BUT the quote that speaks of my service (from Jamie Dunne) wasn’t an editing job at all; it was a content writing job, working from scratch by the seat of my pants, to SEO keywords he gave me, and it was a RUSH and had to be done in one six hour day! (“Just go for it! You have total creative license!”) He paid an arm and a leg for it because it was an under-the-gun RUSH job, so I’m glad he was so delighted with the results!
So again, how Thumbtack comes up with what to award, where to award it, and in what categories, is beyond me! I live in Washington State, south of Seattle, just about as far as you can get from the east coast without drowning in Puget Sound–so why I’m winning east coast awards and kudos is beyond me (except that the two clients I served in these instances live there, perhaps; maybe that’s what triggers it.)
Truth to tell, I don’t even remember writing an essay for anyone in New York–but then, maybe it wasn’t called an essay when I did it. I usually won’t write essays, as the term is academic most of the time and I don’t write students’ essays for them ever: that would defeat the purpose of testing students for their current levels of excellence in the first place. I’m not one of those writers for hire who will help defraud others or skew test results. It’s just never going to happen. Not here. If you’re looking for that kind of help, please look elsewhere!