When I realized that finding a job with a 401K and awesome health benefits was a little too high for me to reach for, I put away the stepping stool and grabbed the nearest writing utensil.
I will, I said to myself, become a writer. As I brandished my pencil, the Lead Excalibur, words flew through my head at lightning speed. I positioned L.E. at the ready...only to have the tip break off once pressed to paper. Then I realized something else: the blog has become the new pad of paper!
And the Unemployment Spectrum was born.
From there, I became a blatant self advertising whore. Websites across the internet were splashed with my name, blog address and quirky summary. Jobs poured in from all reaches of the United States until Redgage found me. Then collegenews.com told me I was writing celebrity news for them. And soon I'll be posting on a blog called The Start Up Gal for a woman at Wildflower-lane.com, who has incredible jewelry and monogrammed awesomeness on her site (check it out!)
What few miracles I gathered were not from working at a dead end job, filing away reports and typing up memos, but through my own moxie. Despite having opened up my creative side and busted out some fabulous writage, I still cannot bring myself to tell people my full time job revolves around the internet.
To be honest, I've acquired the best job(s) ever: I can sit in my pjs and eat cereal as I type up my three celebrity news stories a day, brush my teeth and think of ideas for new blogs, and then work on some DIY things around the house to write about for The Start Up Gal. Why question things that make me happy and make me some money in the process?
Because society, my children, has placed an incredible stereotype on the freelancer. Despite the fact that many freelancers make some decent bank and engage the masses, they're frowned upon because they don't possess a desk in an office in a cubicle. A few sources tell me I can actually make more as a freelancer than as an in-house writer!
After a bit of thought, I realized that despite the stereotype of society, I'm happy doing what I'm doing. The money has little to do with it, but more with being able to put my words out there to the masses, to have my story told.
Who could ask for a better legacy?
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ps- learn to not hotlink images. thanks
I was told community commons was a way to find pictures that were not hotlinked and those are where all the pictures are from. I apologize and will work towards not doing so. Thanks for the update.
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