Comments on: Getting a blogging job – five tips – Problogger http://www.toddrjordan.com/thebroadbrush/2009/06/getting-a-blogging-job-five-tips-problogger/ Demystifying the web and more. Come join me. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tojosan http://www.toddrjordan.com/thebroadbrush/2009/06/getting-a-blogging-job-five-tips-problogger/comment-page-1/#comment-5727 tojosan Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:31:58 +0000 http://www.toddrjordan.com/thebroadbrush/?p=1153#comment-5727 I believe you about the jobs being offered. That's a frequently heard complaint. Perhaps his assumption is the truly bad writers/bloggers won't bother? I believe you about the jobs being offered. That's a frequently heard complaint. Perhaps his assumption is the truly bad writers/bloggers won't bother?

]]> By: tojosan http://www.toddrjordan.com/thebroadbrush/2009/06/getting-a-blogging-job-five-tips-problogger/comment-page-1/#comment-4645 tojosan Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:31:58 +0000 http://www.toddrjordan.com/thebroadbrush/?p=1153#comment-4645 I believe you about the jobs being offered. That's a frequently heard complaint. Perhaps his assumption is the truly bad writers/bloggers won't bother? I believe you about the jobs being offered. That's a frequently heard complaint. Perhaps his assumption is the truly bad writers/bloggers won't bother?

]]> By: PurpleCar http://www.toddrjordan.com/thebroadbrush/2009/06/getting-a-blogging-job-five-tips-problogger/comment-page-1/#comment-4644 PurpleCar Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:28:48 +0000 http://www.toddrjordan.com/thebroadbrush/?p=1153#comment-4644 Thanks for sharing. I think he's deluding himself and us about the blogging jobs on craigslist and other sites. Firstly, many of them are scams, Secondly, many of them and other blogging jobs are offered at slave-labor rates, not at all worth the effort and risk of harming your reputation when the news leaks that you will blog for pennies.<br><br>So, it kind of enrages me, actually, that he would put out this kind of "advice." It isn't good advice for writers who live in the real world. It's for lay people who want to see their name somewhere and they would do it for free. Thanks for sharing. I think he's deluding himself and us about the blogging jobs on craigslist and other sites. Firstly, many of them are scams, Secondly, many of them and other blogging jobs are offered at slave-labor rates, not at all worth the effort and risk of harming your reputation when the news leaks that you will blog for pennies.

So, it kind of enrages me, actually, that he would put out this kind of “advice.” It isn't good advice for writers who live in the real world. It's for lay people who want to see their name somewhere and they would do it for free.

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