My long experience writing/publishing brings me as many editing jobs as I can (or want to) take on.  I never know whether the suggestions I make will be acceptable.  Nor do I know that "my way" of presenting the material is 100% correct.  I edit totally on my l60 year of learning as I go.

A recent situation had me ready to give up doing this entirely, except for the suggestions I make (gratis, of course) during workshop sessions.  A new member  brought a couple of pet stories to the workshop session.  She is a good writer and had a clever story about  a dog rescue, but interwoven were passages about her job and her mother.  They did not belong in the dog story.  She mulled what I said, then contacted me to learn what I would charge to add my suggestions to her stories. She had cut the piece, per workshop suggestions, but it was still was too long to submit to the contest she aimed for.  I told her my price per hour and she brought the manuscripts to me.  In a couple of hours I had reduced her excess (in my opinion) words and created an explanation for a passage she had left unexplained. 

I sent the material back to her via e-mail.  Five days went by without  hearing from her.  Had she decided I had "butchered" her precious manuscripts?  I feared she was more angry than grateful.  I did not know that she was out of town.  On her return, she responded with glowing appreciation. 

This is much the same as submitting to the editor of a journal.  One will buy quickly; another will reject as quickly.   A personal experience with just such judgment will come tomorrow.  –Willma