hopefully something rhetorical

This morning while we were driving into school, the hubby turned to me and said “If you want to become one of those women that makes enough money from her blog to support the family so I wouldn’t have to work, that would be okay with me!” It made me giggle for a moment, knowing mostly that would never happen. Particularly since I don’t really tell many people that I blog.

Later in the day, one of my best good friends posted something about me on her blog, and it is actually quite a funny but embarrassing story. When I told her that I didn’t think that it was a good idea to post it, she said, “Well, there are only like two people that read our blogs anyway. Who cares!” That is when I thought more about the hubby comment. How do all those really cool women who can support themselves with advertising from their blogs do it? From what I can tell they all are already leading very cool and important lives to begin with, which is exactly why they are able to support themselves with their writing, but how do they have time to make a living, live, and write about it all.

This is the same scenario I will eventually face in academia too!  I have never really considered the fact that I could support myself with my writing, but I guess that if I do get into the amazingly cool PhD program I just applied to, I had better get used to the idea. Up until this point, I had always considered my profession teaching, which of course is really what all college professors are, but the writing part becomes a requirement in most environments in higher education. So, it was quite a shock to me to realize that in order to support myself/family someday with my writing, I have to actually get someone to read it just like all those super cool blogging women my husband was referring to.

So, my goal will be to post here more frequently in hopes that more writing couldn’t hurt in this whole process of me getting used to this idea. I am also hoping to start another blog with a friend if we can get things off the ground. And, I will give anyone interested out there the link if that comes to fruition.  All of this goes well with my word for the year too.

So to all of you loyal people with me at the beginning of this adventure “your hair looks nice today!”