Do What You Love? Screw That

Re:Do What You Love? Screw That by jasonkester on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @11:54AM (#5140350)

Well said. I'm gonna go ahead and quote me from four years ago. Skip on if you've read this before:

Not all passions monetize.

At the moment, I'm passionate about rock climbing, travel, surfing and computer programming. If it weren't for that 4th one, I'd be screwed.

I currently run maybe the 3rd most popular Travel Blogging site out there. It's had a good 5 years of passion poured in now, off and on, and if I were to slap ads on it today I'd pull in a buck thirtyfive a day.

I also run a little service that processes the draconian logfiles that Amazon provides for its webservices and spits out pretty analytics. It's a subject that no human being could ever be passionate about and it pays my rent.

Sometimes it's better to monetize something boring that people are willing to pay for.

[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1324610]

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Re:Do What You Love? Screw That by kordless on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @11:58AM (#5140386)

$135/day or $1.35/day?

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Re:Do What You Love? Screw That by Cl4rity on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @12:16PM (#5140495)

I was wondering the same myself, but at any rate, neither would pay his rent. However, I am curious because I know a few travel bloggers out there who make a decent amount of money on their blogs, as well as getting lots of trips paid for by companies like Expedia and Orbitz and other travel companies and agencies.

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Re:Do What You Love? Screw That by jonathlee on Thursday January 31, 2013 @10:04AM (#5145254)

If $4000/month won't pay his rent, he's (or maybe you) are living in the wrong country/region.

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