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My 500th Post! And Why I Have The Best Suckiest Job In The World

Lincoln Adams | December 22, 2008 @ 9:00 am

I have finally arrived at the magic number of 500 posts! :party:

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:guitarna: :dance4:

It’s hard to believe that I managed to stick it out even when there were so many times I was tempted to hang it up and stop blogging for good. But writing is in my blood evidently, and blogging has always been a good outlet for me to express myself in a linguistic sense. With 2009 also on the horizon and a new plan possibly in the works to really get some traffic going, who knows, I might finally be able to realize my dream of actually making some serious money off this blog.

Yet what if that were to really happen though? What if… I were able to honestly blog for a living? Should I give up my job for good and blog full time, and do what I’ve always been pining to do, which was to travel across America and write about my experiences?

Doing so would mean giving up a dull job that otherwise offers a lot of benefits, from being able to work only 33 hours, 4 days a week, to enjoying excellent medical and dental plans, including additional perks like longevity pay, education stipends, ample vacation/sick time, being vested in a retirement and additional medical plan, not to mention the fact that it is laid back enough that I can surf the Internet for most of the day while still getting my work done. Heck, I don’t even have a supervisor either (at least not for a long while, since I scared them all away.) :naughty: And since it’s a government job, it offers the kind of job security that could easily survive the recession as well (as long as crime doesn’t go out of business.)

There’s also the fact that if I succeed in monetizing my blog, I would effectively have two incomes as long as I keep my current job. In a few years I could buy a condo or even a home in another state without even taking out a mortgage. Such a possibility had never even occurred to me until I considered what I’d be able to do if I pretended my second income didn’t exist at all, and just let it pile up in my savings account for a few years. I could afford a home for my parents. A real home. I could fund their accounts so they’d no longer have to work full time and can enjoy some kind of semi-retirement lifestyle. I could really help people, good people who are just going through a hard time and could use a little financial charity. I’d be able to provide for a family too if I had one.

And the only sacrifice I had to make was to simply put up with my ultra-boring, soul sucking job, and God help me, the stupidest bloody coworkers that could have ever graced creation. And of course, continue living in the worst, most disgusting leftist-riddled state in the entire union. :sick:

You know, as much security as my job would offer me now, there’s something to be said for being completely self-sufficient and self-employed, with an online income that doesn’t require you to be tied down to any one location. It offers the kind of freedom most people can only dream of, and for it to even be a distinct possibility for me is a miracle unto itself. Maybe I can somehow find a way to live the best of both worlds though. Ultimately, it all hangs on what happens in the next year or so.

In the meantime, here’s to another 500 posts, and promises of a better future that sees this blog not only enrichening my life, but the lives of many others as well.