You can refuse to work a traditional job just because there are a million ways to take money, you then pick a few that suit you.
You can’t make money, you can only take money.
And most of the work is to convince other people to pay you, and it really doesn’t matter what you do.
You don’t need a million ways to make money, you just new a few that suit you.
Today there are lots of possibilities, but opportunity like always is scarce.
When I was younger I imagined my life to be different, I was thinking that I will work in a bank with a suit. Have a solid and normal job, but that didn’t happen.
My life took a different course.
Now I’m a jobless blogger writing posts. Now I don’t even look for a job since I get a disability check and make some money online. Though not much.
I guess life is something that happens to you, not what you make out of it.
You can’t find what does not exist.
The only reason bloggers fail is that they stop producing content.
If a blogger commits to writing a blog until he is dead, then he can’t fail.
You really can’t measure blog’s success on external factors like views, money and whatnot.
If you been thinking about quitting blogging, just redefine success. Blogging was never good business model. Sure some bloggers make money, but I doubt they are writing content that they really want.
Who wants to write articles like: ‘top best gadgets of 2026’. It’s soul crushing.
100 views is a lot.
When starting a blog, there most likely will not be much views, but after you’ve wrote it for some years, you definitely can get 100 daily views.
But the problem with 100 daily views is that it’s too little to make some money from your blog.
100 daily views isn’t a dead blog, but it’s also not profitable.
If you can spare 5€ per month for your creative outlet then blogging makes sense.
600 millions blogs, YouTube and all those platforms are competing for the same eyeballs. Which makes blogging harder, if you want any financial results.
If you can blog without financial gains, then it’s definitely worth it.
When starting a blog, you really don’t have to write ‘how to’ tips or have a niche.
Your life is your niche.
There’s so much pressure to monetize one’s blog, that if you don’t do it – you’re considered a failed blogger.
Due to scarcity of attention, most bloggers won’t get a cut from their ‘work’ even if they tried hard.
That’s how the blogging world works, blogging results are uneven among blogs, top blogs get all the views while other folks get peanuts.
It’s the reality, not something we can do about.
Today companies not only want you to create content for free, but also pay to get seen, which is basically bullshit.
After decades of blogging and vlogging I can say that it is just free labor.
Most people do not get any money from their blogs or vlog channels.
This ‘start a blog or vlog to make money’ idea is just bullshit because blogs never pay.
You might accept the dream of someday being paid and pursue it all your life, but after 40000 videos and 1000s of blog posts I can firmly say it doesn’t pay a single cent unless you’re lucky to get some donations.
So, as some of you know I’m a blogger and ex vlogger.
I’ve been making money from donations, and I used to get this question: what’s the biggest donation you got in a single transfer.
So my biggest donation ever was 100€ in one transfer, and that guy gave me x2 of them in a matter of couple of days.
As I have this opportunity to speak with all of you, I want to thank all the donors who have supported me over the years that makes my work somewhat valuable.
Although I make not much from donations and book sales – it’s honest money. I don’t steal or something, also I’m not selling some bullshit course for 1000€.
My books were 0.99$ per piece, but now I decided to become a premium author and I charge 9.99$ per piece. I know it might be too high, but bear with me – I do a lot of free work, that 9.99$ is justified.
If I could get free kebabs and everything free, I would also make my work free, in fact most of it is free even when I have to pay for everything, but I am forced to sell something and ask for donations.
So if you value my work, grab a book or make a donation. Thanks again!
Everybody would want to have fun and make money but that rarely happens.
Most people work in jobs they hate just to pay the bills.
I never worked, well maybe 3 months with my friend, I found out that jobs I was offered were such bullshit. So instead I decided to work for myself.
Instead of doing what people expect, I do what I want. I rarely get paid for doing what I like. Because there’s a mismatch of demands, people really don’t need what I do, if they had a need, they would support me, but most of what I do has no support.
You know the harsh reality of modern life.
If fun activities would translate into money, nobody would hate their job, but most jobs are just bullshit. Who has the desire to do them? They’re doing it just to get da money to pay da bills.
So I started blogging maybe 17 years ago, I blogged everywhere and sought money, but no platform did pay me for views that I got and whatnot, so now I realized that there is no money in blogging, although I made over 2000€ over that time from donations. That’s shit money.
Money from blogging is just the dream that keeps most bloggers writing. You won’t make any money from blogging, maybe that sounds harsh, sorry. Although there is a small minority of bloggers who make money, but most do not. Ask ChatGPT, if you don’t believe me.
Blogging is more of a creative outlet, than money printing machine.
Blog is a platform to publish, but not make money. Even when you put your writing to sites like KDP, you earn little to no money and it doesn’t matter how much you publish.
I have 100+ titles on Kindle and they get me just 1-2€ per month, totally passive income.
You see, everybody would want a life where you just sit on the computer and do bullshit work and get paid. Blogging is bullshit work.
Vygintas Varnas 