Day six

No Chewy today. I got something I definitely want to write about.

As part of ongoing job search, I get daily emails from groups like Monster, CareerBuilder, and a few others. Yesterday, I got an email offering the potential to be paid for blogging. Just now, I saw about following up on that prospect. The website offered the forum for people to write what were basically columns where people could pose questions in a particular area of expertise and try to answer them.

That's all well and good, but it just doesn't work for me for a few reasons. One, I'm not really an expert at any particular subject, at least not in a way that's particularly meaningful. I guess the old expression applies, "jack of all trades, master of nothing". I'm more of a problem-solver, looking at a particular situation and coming up with the best possible solution. Second, I personally prefer this format; I just want to be able to write what interests me on that particular day. If, Lord willing this becomes lucrative, I want to be able to do it the way I want to do it. Third, although the site claims the potential to earn several thousand dollars a month, there's the more likely possibility that I would make little to no money at all, since any money made would be based on page views and ad revenue. I would have to hang with it quite a while before it evens begins to become monetarily worthwhile.

At this point, I'm just doing this for me. I hope that people out there reading this get something out of what I write, but I'd rather do it this way and have the freedom to write about what catches my attention.

So, no blogging for money. Not unless, someone out there is willing to pay me for this.