I started this blog about 5 years ago, because I needed to find a way to make money online. While I thought that the people who wrote blogs made more money online than the people who followed their advice, at first I did find a couple of ways to make money online. I found a company that supplied an item that I could buy, and I could sell it online at a much higher price. This process was time consuming, and I was burned more than once. Often, I wouldn’t make much money by selling the item, and I would have to scramble to cover the shipping costs.
Being a fairly intelligent individual, I found that I could make money online by writing. While I did make some money doing this, it wasn’t very cost effective. I would spend a lot of time researching an SEO article, writing it, and then getting paid a pittance. No matter how hard I tried, I could not make a living.
I eventually went back to commissioned sales away from the home. This lasted about 3 years, and I once again found myself unemployed. While I drew unemployment, I kept searching for ways to make money online. I found that I could write comedy articles for sites like Listverse and Cracked, and they would pay me a 100 dollars per article. I did end up getting one article accepted and published, and ten other articles that I pitched ended up on the cutting room floor. I couldn’t make a living doing this.
Meanwhile, are illustrious leaders in the congress decided that they were paying out too much money for unemployment benefits, and I had my checks cut by a third. Fueled by desperation, I finally found a way to make a living online.
I write short, SEO articles for three bucks a pop. It doesn’t seem like a lot of money, but I can crank out an article in about 10 minutes. With the distractions of working from home, I make about 300 bucks a week. It isn’t a lot of money, but I don’t have to put up with the favoritism you will find in any place of employment, and I am saving money on gas and lunches. It took me a lot of searching on and off for about 5 years, but I am finally making a living from home. Now, I just need to increase the three hundred dollars per month, and I will let you all know how it turns out.
BTW, if you want to rent this blog, or hire me to write something for you, drop me a line.
Selling Your Soul as a Freelance Writer
6 years ago
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