An observation I have from applying to a few online writing jobs recently: Some editors don't want to do their job. They give you vague directions on what to provide them, and then rather than working with you to give them what they want, they just shoot you down if you didn't read their minds.

I know I can put half a sentence together. I also know that I do better with a good editor. But lately, I find that a lot of editors don't want to nurture the writer. They don't know how to say to a writer, "Could you tighten this up here a little bit?"

Instead, they just expect you to plop out picture perfect writing right out of the box. If you don't perform exactly on cue, they'll continue to search for those few mythological writers who apparently separated from the editor at birth and can thus read the editor's mind.