Pros
Interesting, Challenging Work in a wide variety of fields Super, Responsive Management Take the work you want when you want Community of fellow editors online for help Simple invoicing, reliable payments twice a month I am doing work I love to do
Cons
Clients are mostly ESL academics. Some are reasonably fluent in English; some are barely decipherable and require extensive edits or extensive questions back to client. Given the difficulty of some of the papers, I agree with another comment that a sliding pay scale would be nice: Starting at 0.12 cents and increasing with time at Cambridge, client feedback, and manuscript difficulty. Must meet client deadlines, regardless of amount of required editing. Summary comments to client are sometimes a pain when the manuscript is long and the English is poor.