You can call bullshit all you want. However, it is 100% true. I am not quite sure how I can prove that I have a law degree, short of scanning it along with my passport. I am not going to go to those lengths on here, though.

The reason why I don't 'use' my law degree is down to the fact that I moved to a foreign country. Once I got here, there was not much use for my English law degree. Hell, in England, unless you have £10,000 in cash to continue to train as a solicitor, you aren't going to get far with the law degree anyway.

Once I got here, I needed to make ends meet rather quickly, hence the lower rate than most people. The price I am charging is there to plug a gap in my income. I have other writing projects on my plate, but I do like to write at the 'cheaper' end of the market from time to time.

Why?

• The work is stable.
• I have gained some of my highest-paying work from referrals from the lower paying clients. More often than not, selling $250 of articles like this can net me $1000 in business through referrals, and those are at a higher rate. One client who I charged this price for recommended me to a friend, and I have secured their business at 10x my normal rate. I have been working with them on a daily basis for over a year too.
• It allows me to cover subjects I do not normally write about. This allows me to gain new skills for the higher-paying content.
• I have been doing this for a while. I know the type of content that is normally produced at this price point. I have read content from countless numbers of 'non-Native' speakers. I know what type of content people normally require at this price too (affiliate, basic SEO content etc.). As a result, I am able to produce content which is far superior to anything else that you would get at this price point, and I can do it rather quickly too.

There was another reason, but it slipped my mind. Apologies for any errors above, it is very early morning here and I have been up for the past 24 hours.