As someone who’s been writing for close to ten years now, I would tend to think I would get paid at this point.Or, at least write for a site that would.I can’t begin to describe in words how frustrating and unfair it’s been to see websites that are “younger” than me become so successful that they’re able to write for their site as a full-time job in just one year.
This is a truth I’ve seen again and again throughout my career (started my career in IT in the 90’s). Just because you’re awesome at something doesn’t guarantee you a fat bank account. The people who most often succeed are the ones that have at least some knowledge of a subject and some understanding of how business work.
It doesn’t mean anything that you’re the best at what you do if you don’t know how to get the customer to sign the agreement.
It’s the first time I’ve ever heard about this website, but it seems like the author’s decision was the best decision they could’ve done, due to how pressured they felt with the conrent creation thing.
I’m thinking that the author is doing this so they avoid thoughts like “the website is still up, why am I not posting anything on it?” We are talking about a person who felt the urge to post at least once every single day of their life, while maintaining a job.
Don’t underestimate the relief of a clean ending. The author isn’t in a good place, it won’t do him any favors to leave it up. He clearly wants to put this chapter of his life behind him.
Yeah, I can definitely get that being expected to create content regularly wears you out. I wouldn’t personally enjoy the life of a content creator, some days I just want to be quiet and have minimal interaction.
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