Friday, October 17, 2008

University Degrees No Good?

I'm well on my way to becoming a pro-bono writer, or so I thought.. I had just submitted a sort of inspirational article to ezinearticles.com and no later than you could say driving Miss Daisy, my account had been suspended.

Well, thought I had used too many periods in my name (B.A.) but turns out this 'organization' does not allow any titles other than a doctorate to be used in your name.. Does this seem unfair to anyone out there, or are there simply too many aspiring writers with only a BA? I pray the latter is true, otherwise I'm not sure what to do here..
An email reply was sent as follows:

Hi David,
Thank you for the request. :)
Your name is invalid becuase of the title BA after your name.
While we do allow titles with an author name, it must be a doctorate level degree.

I'm not sure to what extent people have found their abilities (or titles) to be limited by others, but can only hope for the best. I wouldn't be the only person to regret having spent over $30,000 (and 3 years) on a university education for naught.

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