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Welcome to RidiculAds: Job Offers You Can
Refuse by MedWrite Healthcare Communications.
The purpose of this blog is primarily
for entertainment and amusement purposes, but it also exposes an unscrupulous
industry of original content “publishers” who take advantage of medical writers.
As a professional medical writer and
owner at MedWrite Healthcare Communications, I often come across job offers on
the Internet looking for professional medical writers with extensive experience,
science background and advanced degrees to write healthcare-related articles for
online and print publications at high output, tight deadlines and very low
compensation.
Such job postings are
rampant as many “publishers” are preying on writers today, many of whom might
be out of work or those who want to break into medical writing, and will take
on anything.
Some
examples of this are:
-
Payment of $50 for a 100-page report,
to be delivered within 24 hours, where bidders racing each other to the bottom
to bid to be paid $1 per 10 pages. It is sad and unthinkable that anyone would
agree to be paid less than $1/page for original content.
- Full time job $400-550 per month Writer with BEST English The ad states: “We
need a writer with tech/medical/news style for a full time 200 hrs a month. We
like interesting writing that conveys as much information with the list number
of words. We pay based on $2-3.5/hr”. (Source: oDesk - United States).
- “Fixed-Price – Est. Budget: $5.00Posted July 10 2012 (from
oDesk). Apply here if you know you have a very good command of the English
Language and you have a fast turnaround. Articles will be on a daily basis.
Don't apply if you don't work on weekends. Each 400-600 word article is $2.50,
we'll negotiate on the price if the article will be longer. Only serious and
good writers please, I don't have time to correct bad grammar. The topics can
be anything from real estate ...
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I am looking for
experienced USA Medical Writers ( strictly ) who can write articles related to
surgery , gastric problems , bypass surgery etc.” (Source: oDesk)
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“We need 500 words
blog/articles on lot of topics. Price will be $3-$6(including odesk fees ) per
article depending upon the quality. Before selecting, we will need one sample
which will be paid if your article is selected. We may be needing around 100
articles a month. We need sample article within 3-4 hours after sending the
details. Time and Quality matters a lot. Please bid for 1 article only, this
will help me to understand you have gone through the details here and once
approved, will continue for future articles.” (Source: oDesk)
And there are many more offers such as these that one certainly can refuse!
This is just a sample of what gems you
will find on our blog!