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Stop Chasing the Money
I’m taking a different spin with this article. I’m relatively new to medium and trying to find my voice on a platform saturated with voices. This leaves me feeling defeated when I pour my heart into an article and get maybe 3 views. I find myself refreshing my stats over and over, thinking to myself, this can’t be right. I crushed that article. It was funny, witty, and I only cursed like 5 times. I don’t get it!
Well, I understand that cursing isn’t as widely accepted on medium as I personally believe it should be. For the sake of trying something different, I actually will not curse this time. This will not be easy for me since I feel like it really adds to my charm.
Oprah Winfrey once said, “If you can get paid for doing what you love, every paycheck is a bonus”. Okay, Oprah. I hear you, but I imagine that is a lot easier to say when you have a $2.5 billion net worth. Now for somebody who has made just shy of $1 writing on Medium, my perspective is a little bit different.
I don’t want to sound ungrateful. I have decent paying 9–5 job in corporate marketing for a Fortune 50 company. I work a remote job that allows me to work anywhere with freedom to write here and there in between meetings and general day-to-day tasks.
That is something to be proud of — but I am deeply unhappy. Deeply. I find myself more dissatisfied in my…
