Blogging as a career path?
It’s funny, I’ve spent so much time blogging over at SupComTalk recently (which has taken away most of my blogging time from this site, in case you haven’t noticed). But what’s more, I’m really enjoying it, too. And we’ve got a nicely sized audience accumulating. I even have a few more writers who are hopefully coming onboard. It gets me thinking …
Is it possible to make a job out of this? Everyone is always saying how important it is to get a job doing something you love. Well, I do love writing. I just don’t see it feasible doing it with SupComTalk. The subject area is too narrow. There’s no way to make even close to what I’ll be getting from my IT consulting job; the community is simply too small. And I haven’t the faintest idea of what topic I would want to blog about; gaming maybe? In the mean time I’ll just keep at it. Each day that I do this I feel myself getting slightly better at writing. Looking back at my blog posts from just four months ago, I know I’ve definitely improved. And the time that it takes to pump out a single blog post of equal quality has plunged dramatically.
So I’ll just keep up the blogging for fun. I’m not really making a lot of money on it; I’m basically just recouping the hosting and server costs. But I am getting experience, and who knows, maybe it will eventually go somewhere. I would like that. But I’m also going to be realistic here: I’m going to have a computer science degree in another month and a nice job paying a very comfortable salary. Until I can do nearly as well at blogging, blogging will remain little more than hobby. And since it’s so difficult to break out in the blogging field, I think it’ll remain a hobby forever. But I’m okay with that.
