Normal Service Will Resume…When I’m Dead?
The New York Times has an article on bloggers driven to exhaustion! Although, as they note, two deaths do not a trend make.
Luckily, this doesn’t apply to me. I do blog for money (although not here), but it’s not the kind of thing where I have to constantly get an edge on posting about current news. As for the rates bloggers get…a lot depends on your speed. I have a minimum dollars-per-hour rate in my head that I won’t go below, so if I’m being paid by the post, I simply make sure my time translates, over any given time period, to that minimum or higher. If you’re a slow typist or can’t “write on your feet,” well, yes, unless you’re in the upper-upper echelon, you will in fact be writing for peanuts…
That said, I’ve reached a point where I need to recharge a bit, so blogging this week will be a little lighter, with normal service to resume by next Monday.
April 7, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I was reminded of this cartoon when I read that: http://xkcd.com/369/
April 8, 2008 at 7:57 am
I do blogging for $$ as well (well, it’s a podcast script, but it’s daily and about the same amount fo work, I guess) and I don’t find it all that stressful. In fact, I find it far less stressful than when I did programming as freelance, heh. I agree though, on having a dollar amount you won’t go below. I’ve seen people take ridiculous amounts of money for that sort of thing- I’ve also had places that I tried to get work through that tried to get me to go far below.
I basically told them the truth- I don’t need their work. If they want to pay that little, get someone else to do it. They did, but it didn’t bother me.