My Day As A Geek Writer
There is a geekish sort of blog that I read because it is both geekish and humorous. They were looking for new writers, and so I applied. They asked me to give it a shot, and I was exceedingly pumped about it because they were going to start me out at $12 a post. It was too good to be true. Write about geeky stuff, be witty, earn cash.
One night I couldn’t get to sleep because I kept thinking about how many blog posts it would take to earn enough money to buy various things.
- iPod: 29 posts
- iMac: 150 posts
- New Home: 41,700 posts
- And so on…
I wrote for one day, and then told them I couldn’t do it. I was so stressed out about filling the quota and trying to get my real work done at the same time. It wasn’t so much the writing part I didn’t have time for, as much as it was finding things to write about. I realized I didn’t have time to scour the Internet in search for geeky things. That’s why I read the blogs: they do it for me.
Anyway, I guess someday we’ll get a house the old fashioned way: by writing “House” on the outside of an envelope and stuffin’ bills in there every once in a while. My mom would be so proud.
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