My husband and I are attending Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University. We're hoping to get out of debt, so that maybe in the future I can quit my job as a Lifestyles Editor and write fiction full-time. A woman who took my place as editor-in-chief of a newspaper where I work is also taking the class. We were talking about taking a second job, and the woman suggested I do freelance.
A girl, probably around 16, who is attending the class with her dad, piped up and said her teacher told the class to write children's stories to make money for college. That it was easy to $5,000 that way. We didn't really have time for me to go into why that's so not true, but I just said, "There's a lot more to it than that." The woman who took my place nodded her head.
Why are teachers telling their students this? I wonder if this was just an isolated event. It seems to me if teachers are telling their students they can make $5000 for one children's book, it just feeds the myth that writers can get rich easily. Has anyone ever experienced this before?
A girl, probably around 16, who is attending the class with her dad, piped up and said her teacher told the class to write children's stories to make money for college. That it was easy to $5,000 that way. We didn't really have time for me to go into why that's so not true, but I just said, "There's a lot more to it than that." The woman who took my place nodded her head.
Why are teachers telling their students this? I wonder if this was just an isolated event. It seems to me if teachers are telling their students they can make $5000 for one children's book, it just feeds the myth that writers can get rich easily. Has anyone ever experienced this before?