Want to work really hard for $30k a year? Be a Blogger.

Want to blog? Want to work 14 hours a day during the week and 9 on weekends? You can make $30k a year.

Kimberly Palmer on her U.S. News blog, Alpha Consumer, finds blogging to be a hard part-time job. She highlights four bloggers at different phases of their career and finds from “The Beginner” making nothing - bupkis, to what she calls “The Success Story”, Steve Pavlina, making “in the five figures” a month lies “The Full-Timer”, Lazy Man and Money who works the 14 hours a day on weekdays and nine hours on Saturday and Sunday and expects to make $30,000 from his blog this year — hard work for a lazy man.

If you’re thinking of quitting your day job for the riches of blogging, read the article for aversion therapy.

[From How Much Do Bloggers Make? - Alpha Consumer (usnews.com)]

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Lazy Man and Money 2 months ago 1 point
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I want to clarify something here... I actually said, "I would say that I typically spend 14 hours a day in front of a computer Monday through Friday... The most difficult part is figuring out what really counts as putting time into a blog... I've spent time e-mailing my blogging peers, but occassionally getting off topic."

I also spend some time on personal e-mails, playing around on fantasy baseball leagues and a number of other things.

What she didn't include was this, "If I were to get serious and maximize my time, I could probably spend two hours a day simply writing. Next month, I'm going to be out of the country and I don't know if I'll have Internet access. If I spend about 30 hours writing ahead of time, I should be okay if just check mail three times a week."

That said, you are right, blogging for money is hard work. It seems like that 95% of what you doesn't pay, but the 5% where you feel you might get lucky (like getting a US News story on you) really pay off.

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