Education

It must have been the best paying job I ever had. Well maybe not, but I didn't have to show up for work anywhere. But I did it in private, not for a company. Still, after writing 2 or 3 papers, I suddenly got very lucrative offers like "could you write the substance of a PhD thesis in history for 5000"? I'm ashamed that I did this - eventually, I couldn't live with myself anymore, despite all the nice things I could buy. Once in a while I walk into people that I wrote things for, many of them now working at the same University that I do. thinking about that makes me want to vomit, and makes me even more ashamed.

Then again, I simply can't imagine that I'd trust some random company on the internet to write my papers. The chances of getting ripped off must be astronomical - what are you going to do if they simply never send you the paper? Sue them?

It's not a new problem, either. My boss tells allot of wild stories about forging stuff and ghostwriting papersin the pre-digital era ("That guy on TV yesterday? Don't take him seriously. He didn't write his thesis by himself&quot . It's just that it has become soooooo much easier now that we're all connected.