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If yoo ar lookin four a job as a pruffeshunal writter, the Tico Times is deffinitely da bess playce to luk!
The ad may also be a scam. 7500 words per day and higher is possible for professional flow of consciousness writing such as writing fiction or personal thoughts. But writing on factual topics is much much slower. To imply that this could be a great part-time job is a come-on for the gullible or naive.
The 1 cent per word rate is a Tico labor rate. Going rates outside Central America are 30 to 200 times that. For a hard facts writing job that is probably even low by Tico rates.
What makes it likely that this is one of those “work at home” scams is that you would be lucky to produce 3 to 5 articles in a full day (unless it was all cut and paste from other sources – stealing). So now your “part time” $60/day job is a $10 to $20 for a full day job IF you get paid. Half that amount for true part time. If you don’t make the “minimum” you may be giving away your work. Many of the contracts for these things penalize the worker by not paying if they don’t produce. You get a nice condolence letter asking to keep trying. BUT, the work you (and many others) do still gets used for whatever (probably spam content of some sort).
250 words in about 2 hours (I did some research, answered the phone). Wow $1.25/hr! I could make $10/day working for these guys. . But I couldn’t meet the minimum.
The Late Great Isaac Asimov typed at a rate of 90 words per minute with virtually zero errors. His average daily production was 2000 to 4000 words per 10 hour day (he was a workaholic). Back in the 1940’s he claimed he was paid 2 cents per word for short stories and novels. That is $40 to $80/day or $4 to $8/hr when the common labor rate in the U.S. was 50 cents and hour. He was brilliant, worked hard and earned a good living. He was the stereotypical writer who sat down, started typing and wrote a story from the beginning to the end.
That was a LONG time ago, labor rates, even in Costa Rica are much higher. The average person types 30 to 50 words per minute. Less than half Asimov’s rate so they might produce 1000 to 2000 words a day assuming they are as brilliant a writer as Asimov. So make that 500 to 1000 words for the normal person.
The people writing the ad may appear ignorant but their scheme is founded on writing statistics that they know cannot be met (7500 words/day) while making promises ($60/day) that are very enticing.
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