Perpetual Smile

I’ve come to the conclusion that the best job in the world would be one where I could blog and get paid for it. If I could do nothing but blog all day, and make money that way, I’d have it made. Seriously. Just think about it. Blogging is addictive. If you blog, you already know how motherfucking addictive it is. Once you start, you want to write about every little thing. Thankfully, someone invented Twitter, and now I have a valid excuse for random annotations.

I know there is a really quick and easy way to make money off of blogging, and depending on how popular your blog is you’ll make a lot of money. To me, though, putting advertising on your blog is just as good as selling out. I know that some people pay for their blog by putting ads on it. I get that. I don’t have to agree with it. To me, if you want to have your own little niche on the web, you’d better be able to pay for it by yourself. Quite frankly, what happens if no one reads your blog? You’re stuck with ads that no one is going to click on and your ad provider is gonna say, “fuck you”. No more money, and then no more blog. (I dare someone to argue with me.)

One of the biggest reasons I left Screw-You-Over-Journal was because their advertising had gotten way out of hand. (The straw that broke my proverbial camel’s back was when they altogether got rid of the basic-level user account. I’ve heard that account level has just recently been reinstated, but still.) It got annoying when the choice came down to one of three things:

• You could have a basic account with minimal features and no advertising. This later changed to minimal advertising, since you could still see ads on the home pages and all that.
• You could have a mid-level account with better features, sponsored by advertisers. In theory it wasn’t a bad idea, but the ads were everywhere. There was no relief.
• Finally, you could purchase a permanent account with all available features, with no advertising. My opinion on this was if you were going to shell out the money for it anyway, you might as well buy your own domain. At least you wouldn’t have their domain name as part of your web address, and you could do whatever you want on your own site.

Where was I going with this? Oh. Right. Getting paid for blogging. I got way off topic there. Heh.

Ads just don’t do it for me. I don’t want my readers (or me) getting bombarded by stupid ads just so I can have my own space. Still, I think it would be pretty cool if I got to write a daily or weekly blog for some company and got paid for it. The thing is, what sort of place could I write for? I love writing for Scars Can Speak, but that’s my own site and I obviously can’t pay myself. I think it would be neat if I could find a similar blogging site and get paid for writing about my experiences with depression and self-injury. I could do it from home and get a check in the mail every so often for sitting on my ass and telling the world what I think.

It is so nice to dream.

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