Blogging for profit is a full-time job. Often, in the beginning, done in conjunction with a second full-time job, or multiple part-time jobs, because it takes years to build the audience---when I look at just the blogging side, at the big blogs like doshdosh, ProBlogger, Skelliewag---those all took years to build, just like Whatever or BoingBoing.
It's kind of like writing fiction in that sense. :)
Doing both at the same time is indeed insane, especially if you're still in the building stage, because that means you have at least one paying daytime job(s) that add up to a full-time job, and two non-paying full-time jobs on the wayside.
I blog seriously and have a full-time, hard day job. I literally have no free time, and I still write fiction (a little bit) on the side. But it makes me happy, because this is what I like doing.
If you ain't blogging for the love of it, it's not going to turn out well.
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Date: 2008-02-25 06:57 am (UTC)It's kind of like writing fiction in that sense. :)
Doing both at the same time is indeed insane, especially if you're still in the building stage, because that means you have at least one paying daytime job(s) that add up to a full-time job, and two non-paying full-time jobs on the wayside.
I blog seriously and have a full-time, hard day job. I literally have no free time, and I still write fiction (a little bit) on the side. But it makes me happy, because this is what I like doing.
If you ain't blogging for the love of it, it's not going to turn out well.