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Q&A Can I turn my anal-retentiveness into a career?

When I'm reading something, I immediately pick up on typos, grammatical errors, misuse of punctuation, and the like, as well as better ways to phrase things. I have no formal education in any sort ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by John Doe‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

Question editing career
#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T11:28:09Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/43887
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar John Doe‭ · 2019-12-08T11:28:09Z (over 4 years ago)
When I'm reading something, I immediately pick up on typos, grammatical errors, misuse of punctuation, and the like, as well as better ways to phrase things. I have no formal education in any sort of writing or English other than GE; my education is in engineering.

Is there some way to monetize...proofreading? Is what I described what an editor does?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-03-21T19:55:24Z (about 5 years ago)
Original score: 9