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So lets imagine that you are some guy. You've been married, you have some kids, you have little money and someone offers you a way of making some easy money.
It's doing something pretty much against your morals and to start with it won't pay very well until you get a small number of interested parties who are willing to keep coming back and taking a little piece of you each time.
What do you do? How do you keep the people coming back? Do you whore yourself out to keep the interest there? Do you lie to make them come back?
What if what you have on offer isnt something that gets people addicted? What if its something that can make them laugh, or cry, and forget themselves for a bit? Get them involved in something that gets them away from their everyday life and give them something interesting...
So the question is this... Should I start putting adverts on the page in the hope the few people keep coming back and slowly give me money, should I signup to a paid-blogging system or should I start selling drugs?
Something I was interested in doing with this here blog was to turn it professional. Make it into a film review site - a proper one with contributors (some of which are already lined up and stuff. Highlighting the movies that really are Bloody Excellent...
Anyway, on another note - I'm in a pretty good place at the moment. Just enough money to survive and enjoy myself, 2 great kids, a huge MP3 collection to listen to, a brilliant group of friends, one incredibly ace new friend, given up smoking, tempted to dump my car and be more ecologically friendly and eating healthier. I actually feel pretty happy. I mean, things could always be better, but right now, its all good.
In other news I drink too much (but I'm not doing it to forget stuff and let my "inner child" out anymore), I'm drinking cos its fun and its kind of a social thing. My "inner child" gets released whenever I damn well want it to be now, which is cool.
On the down side, its almost November. Novembers are historically a bad time for me and I expect all my current (minimal) euphoria will vanish into a puff of smoke and I'll spiral downwards in the stupid way I normally do. Nothing good ever lasts, everything turns to shit eventually...
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