Course Hero Tutor - Students just want you to do their homework for them

I looked into Course Hero as a tutor as a possible way to make some extra money and help some kids in school. I have experience as a programmer and web developer, so I figured why not? I signed up and got accepted.

Maybe I was being naïve, but I went into this with the idea that the students would be submitting legitimate questions. Stuff like "why won't this program run properly?" or "what is causing the margin of this web page to be messed up?" Stuff that I remember looking online for help for. Stuff that I might now be able to help with but wouldn't be just doing their homework or project for them.

Boy was I wrong.

I've gone through a few dozen questions, none of which I answered. Some of which due to being (admittedly) out of my depth, but most I couldn't answer because it either didn't have enough information or because I'd have to spend time writing their program for them. I'm not about to spend an hour writing a program with MySQL integration that I can't properly test for $4.

Maybe it's better in other subjects, I'm just a bit disappointed with my experience so far.

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