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As part of my three year retrospective and the count down to five hundred posts on this blog, I wanted to make sure I covered how I started blogging full time, and how things have changed today. I wanted to cover how stressful it is to be a full time blogger and how it can [...]

So many people assume that when they get to become a full time blogger, podcaster, or video podcaster that they will be working for themselves, but I feel like that is a rarity, and not how it works for a large group of people, including myself. I have never been one hundred percent self sufficient [...]

Some people ask me how I found my current job as Community Manager for PicApp, and the reality is more simple than they realize. The job was posted on Darren Rowse’s Problogger Job Board. I saw the job, and thought that I would be a good fit for it, and so I applied. The rest [...]

Today, I had a great conversation with a friend of mine who was frustrated with their job a little bit. See, they had decided they wanted to make good money from blogging, but they were letting the blog owners make all of the decisions on how much their time, effort, and writing was worth, and [...]

So many people that I talk to that want to become full time bloggers mention that they don’t see themselves putting in more than four to six hours a day researching, writing, editing, publishing, promoting and otherwise doing things that are blog related. All of them are shocked when I let them know that I [...]