Subtitled: How Expensive Educations and Lofty Expectations Sometimes Fail to Blossom Mind-Numbing Office Jobs and the People Who Love Them

I feel like it’s time to comment on a predicament I constantly find myself in. I’m not sure if this is just me or if other people feel the same about it. That is, I am insanely busy, days cram-packed with awesome things happening all the time but don’t seem to make any money.

I love to dig into the things. I fill my days with juicy bits of life that interest me, that challenge me, the things that make this whole crapshoot worth a damn and make every day somehow more exciting than the last. Live deep and suck the marrow out of life, a wise teacher once said. Funny how deep livin’ don’t necessarily pay. What’s up with that? How do I cross the lovely yet somewhat mythical bridge to the Land of Living the Dream (that is: of doing what one is passionate about and getting paid a decent livable wage for it)?

Take this blog, for example. Surely fun. Very satisfying. Interesting to the nth degree. And yet, my blinged-out embedded Google Ads have yielded a whopping $11.06 to date. That’s a pretty poor wage for hundreds of hours of work over many months. Oh, and see that Amazon ad over on the sidebar? $0.00. Yup.

Ah, blogging. And how! I have let you take over my life so completely – I’ve even used that deplorable, awkward and ugly word “blogger” (sounds like bugger) when people ask what I do! – and you have yet to make me enough to even buy a friggin’ sandwich and chips at the deli down the street.

And so I think to myself, start this video blogging thing. Also, deeply satisfying, (yes, as some detractors have pointed out, a bit self-indulgent to some degree… though in my defense, the road trip blog is merely the “tester” series to get into the swing of things and learn how to use it as a tool). Hell, my video hosting site even sells ads on my behalf. Payoff to date: $0.

So what’s this game all about people? What are we in it for?

I don’t know. But watch out sucka! cuz I’m gonna be videobloggin’ some crazy s**t at Sundance, and it’ll be one hell of a funny story to tell my kids and grandkids. That’s valuable, right?

[PS - anyone want to hire me to build them a blog or teach them how to video podcast???]

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  • I hear ya*

    ;))


    unless u've got massive Traffic to generate a lot of Clicks it's unlikely the averag Blogger is gonna make any serious $coin*

    That being said I would like to see some New Economic model arise out of all this Blogging & Web2.0 Social Networking that allows people to Earn some decent $Money Blogging & doing different things on the Internet*

    One i did like that doesn't require U to do anything other than Surf or just spend your normal amount of time on the Net is Agloco - worth a look anyways & i have a link at my $B Baloney Blog!!

    Cheers Everybody!! Billy ;))

    Peace*
  • Thanks, guys! Eh. Who needs money anyways? As another wise man once said, "all you need is..." okay, I won't complete it. It's almost a terrible cliche these days. But oh so true.
  • the "starving blogger?" this surely is life 2.0.

    i was explaining you the other day to a friend of mine and they were like "what does he do?" i was like, "geez. he's the kind of guy that gets a job as an adventure guide and then to work as a dvd engineer at sundance whilst doing the blog and is kind of a do-gooder." something like that, anyway.
  • Well, we know how you don't make money, but how *do you make money? Selling Catholic babies on the black market? That's what I do. It doesn't pay much, but it's better than Google Ads. :-)
  • Ha! Of course it is! But \"warm glow\" don\'t buy dinner, pops.
  • VQ
    Isn't the warm glow you get from informing and entertaining your legions of readers payment enough?
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