Did anyone apply to Remilon?

[AG1976]

Hi Gaiwan, and welcome! It's nice to have your input as a Remilon "veteran".

[AG1976]

Update: I completed orientation, and my FAR went through on the first pass! The senior editor reviewed it, which makes me even happier that I did well. Now I'm a little less stressed out!

[LittleMiss]

I'm somewhat new to the forum but thought I'd chime in on this thread. I just finished my orientation with Remilon and my FAR went through on the first pass too! I've read all the threads on here and I'm not sure how I'll feel about working for this company, but I'm giving it a shot!

[Princess28]

I'm glad to hear it's working out for my fellow newbies. I've decided to bag this one. I just don't enjoy it. Even worse, I dread going over there. I wish everyone luck.

[Lumara]

I have no trouble putting in the required 15 hours a week for Remilon, but I'm really nervous about the amount of time the articles are taking me to complete. I picked subjects that interested me, all in alternative medicine except for one, but they aren't ranked by U.S.News nor Princeton Review, and it is taking me hours to find enough accredited, not-for-profit or public schools to make my list of 10. I know we are only supposed to spend 30 minutes or less for research, but it is taking me literally hours per article, just in research before I get enough info to write. My last topic didn't even have any results turn up in the college navigator, so it is search search search, and after over two hours I've written a little less than half. SIGH.

I felt good about one topic, because I completed it in 1.5 hours since I found the 10 top schools in U.S.News. Unfortunately, it was returned because I used all 10 from U.S. News without any other ranking sources. There are so many rules to learn!!!

I sure hope Remilon allows extra time in the beginning for the learning curve, because I am spending way too much time on each article. I am putting the time in and being very honest about my time, but I am much too slow. Thus, I am very concerned about being able to retain this gig until something better comes along. 3-4 hours or more per article is too much.

[AG1976]

I think it's OK if we're slower at first; I hope so anyway because I'm not a lightning-quick writer by any means. My guideline is Schools Revisions, so I don't have to include lists unless the title calls for it. For my first five topics, I picked subjects that I knew would be easy to research because a lot of schools offered them.

Good luck, Princess28! Writing about college degree programs isn't for everyone; it's dry and factual. I am so accustomed to doing these types of articles that I don't dread the topics. On the other hand, I have to write a bunch of finance articles for another website, and it's like pulling teeth.

[Lumara]

I don't mind the dry topic of schools. My only gripe is the length of time it takes me per article versus what they expect. My guidelines are different than yours, AG. They are allegedly revisions, but they are actually total rewrites where I need to list the top ten colleges for a given topic, write details about a few of them, then create a table listing the distinction for each school. It's difficult to find any distinction about some of them, so I'm doing a lot of thinking when I'm not writing or researching.

At least I have learned to pick easier topics in the future. I didn't know the ones I chose would be difficult, but at least now I know not to pick those in the future. I have one article to complete, another to revise, and I'm not sure about the other two I've submitted since they haven't been edited yet.

I hope you are right that they'll make allowances for newbies. I'm trying really hard to do a good job, and that accounts for some of my slowness - I proofread over and over and over before submitting.

[AG1976]

My guideline seems to be the exact opposite - the existing articles have tables, and I have to delete them and write up descriptions of degree levels.

I know what you mean about proofreading. My score got dinged a bit for stupid house style mistakes, but I had such a bad headache when I wrote my article that I had a hard time focusing my eyes on the screen. I'll be extra careful next time.

[djunamod]

Just caught this thread and I'm very glad I did. I'm trying to "break into" freelance writing and this company sounds like it might be right up my alley, as I have quite a bit of experience writing about educational topics (I've been teaching college level English courses for 8 years and I create a lot of materials for the classroom). I also like the idea of having steady hours and a steady pay rather than pay by article (when I get more experience, I will probably prefer the other way). I sent in my resume and writing samples, so keeping my fingers crossed that I move on to the next level!

Djuna

[Lumara]

I just submitted my 11th Remilon article and am wondering how the other newbies are doing. I am very pleased with the fast response to questions from my guidance and senior editors, but I can understand why others have complained about micromanaging and the problems of having multiple content editors. I've learned that what one editor thinks is fine, another editor will ding you for. Some editors seem to give lower scores for the same kind of work others score me high on. I'd prefer it if the writers were assigned one content editor, which would avoid that problem.

I've had a few articles returned for revision, but tonight noticed another article that I had completed was given a very low score by a content editor. She had a lot of criticisms, yet never sent me any comments nor request for revision, and I don't understand why. That would have given me the opportunity to correct the mistakes and up my score, so I was very disappointed. I only discovered it when I clicked on "Completed Work" to see what would appear. The same editor returned a different article for revision, and I made those changes, so there can be inconsistency with a single editor, too. Sigh.