One Creative Introvert’s Effort To Take On The Extroverted Marketing World…

Welcome to day number one-hundred-nine of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where… last night… I started to second guess my drive to make money from this blog… after I realized how much more I liked creating content as a hobby… not that I plan on stopping… it’s just something that crossed my mind last night while doing behind-the-scenes work and looking at my daily pay…

I’m torn… because… though I would love to earn much more… at this stage… I still feel like I’m treating this site as a hobby and not a job… meaning that I’m lucky to earn anything at all… then again… there’s part of me that feels that it’s the low pay that leaves me feeling stuck… and that I’d write with more passion if I were meeting my five-dollar a day goal… or if I was working on anything other than marketing…

It doesn’t help that my medication now keeps me so even-keeled… which is nice when it comes to the frustrations of life… but it can be rough when trying to drum up enthusiastic energy… even when things are fun… at least for me… it’s always been easier to explain black and white insights… but I’ve always felt lost on days like today… where all that I see is grey…

Keep in mind that grey equals good in this case… since we’re talking about a balance of the black and the white… and not a negative grey where all of the colors of life are taken away…

And with that… I’m going to wrap up my rambling introduction to the day… now let’s move on to see how I handled the theme from yesterday…

According to the 365 Days Of Marketing book… yesterday was Newspaper Journalist Day… and I have to admit that I did absolutely nothing to celebrate… considering the fact that I stopped following the news altogether close to three years ago… because I feel that modern journalists have let us all down…

No… I’m not a Trump “fake news” screaming idiot… he wasn’t even a political figure around the time that I lost my trust… in fact… I lost my interest in the news when it became a form of entertainment… and stopped being informative…

I was once obsessed with the news… not because I was interested in world events… but because I wanted to keep up with the late-night talk show’s opening monologues… SNL… and jokes from my favorite political comedians… I knew the news before the joke back then… so I felt like I was informed… but now that the punchlines equal the headlines… it all just feels like a joke…

Another reason that I decided to be honest… and not participate in the theme for today is… as you can see… these insights are based on TV because I haven’t even seen a newspaper in years… so I wouldn’t be able to pull out a journalist’s name to celebrate even if I wanted to…

With that… I’m going to consider today’s theme taken care of… now let’s see what the book has in store for today…

The 365 Days Of Marketing book says that today is Hanging Out Day… which couldn’t have come at a better time… because this means that today I’ll probably get high and just lay around… and then watch TV with the family later this evening… but we’ll see what really ends up going down when I check in with tomorrow’s post…

But for now… to wrap it all up… below are my statistics for the last seven days… now complete with speed stats…