3 Ways How Online Content Writing Courses Exploit You.

With the mushrooming of online courses on sites like Coursera, Udemy and even independent websites, exploitation of labour has become the order of the day. Watch out for these 3 RED FLAGS while you're taking an online content writing course:

▶ UNPAID INTERNSHIPS

Any course that charges you an enormous amount of money and then asks you to devote your time working for their clients FOR FREE is not worth it. This is exploitation at its most fundamental level, an instance of unpaid labour, where you are made to feel like you're getting to learn a lot through 'first-hand experience' but all that is happening is that they are profiting off you by: first, making you purchase an expensive online course, and second, by earning thousands of rupees from the sale of your articles. As for me, I have had a 'first-hand experience' of such exploitation. So, trust me when I tell you, it's not pleasant at all.

▶ UNCORRECTED ASSIGNMENTS

Well, it's quite natural for coordinators of such online courses to display remarkable sincerity/punctuality when it comes to promptly correcting your assignments in the first one or two weeks. But just wait for a few weeks and see if they maintain the same level of sincerity throughout. More often that not, you will get to see their true colours by the end of the third week. And then you'll find yourself writing long emails and text messages requesting them to correct your assignments and give you some feedback.

▶ SKIPPING MODULES

While there might be a detailed, comprehensive brochure offering extensive modules specially curated to fill all the gaps in your knowledge when it comes to content writing, after you have actually paid for the course you will find these modules being half-heartedly covered and at times being left out altogether. This is not what you signed up for. Any discrepancy between what they have promised to offer and what they actually end up offering should be taken seriously. When you are paying for something, it is your right to question and demand your money back if your needs haven't been met.

Have you faced similar problems? I'm looking forward to hearing from you. 

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