Cons Of Problogging? LOL

haha funny post m8

thanks marc - glad you enjoyed it.

Cool review.

However, I can "comment" this :

".. nothing is suited for everybody."

There is something suited for all, yet not everybody realize it`s importance and how to use it .. The LIFE.

And you say : "if you were doing what you wanted with your life your work would be your life", which I can say there is nothing more true than that !

Revisit this post when you have done "the online thing" for a few years ;)

Totally agree with this one Mark. It's difficult for me to shed a tear when someone is complaining about setting their own hours and not having to answer to anybody!

I'm sure that the life of the problogger isn't perfect, but I think complaining about it is rather insulting to those who slaving away in factories and doing the real hard work in our society.

If those people waste a day in front of a TV instead of working, they get fired and don't eat. A problogger can just catch up on the work later. Probloggers may get fat from working, but that doesn't even compare to the physical dangers faced in many factories, mines and industries.

They need to dry their eyes and get out in the real world.

lol kumiko, you summed it up very nicely

"I think complaining about it is rather insulting to those who slaving away in factories and doing the real hard work in our society."

and follow with more good points

thanks for the comment

I have to disagree with you on this one Mark, I agree with a lot of what he said in his post. If you look at his next post you will see that he was not down at all, he simply listed the cons of the job and then listed the pros of being self employed a few days later.

As I said in my post, the biggest thing you miss is the social element.

One of the last full time jobs I had was for a big finance institution in Edinburgh. I was saving for months to go travelling for the first time so I was working between 50 and 60 hours every week whilst still trying to maintain the websites etc I had. As tiring as it was, it was a happy time in my life. I socialised a lot with the people I worked with and I made some great friends.

Gary's right - some of you need to come back to this in a few years after being self employed via the internet for a bit longer.

Kumiko - Correct me if im wrong but you are not self employed via the internet as yet are you? I think if you had worked on the net full time for a few years on the net you might relate to this post more.

Again, read the post I wrote about this. I wouldn't change what I do for anything else however there are negative aspects of this type of job.

@kevin - feel free to disagree with me on all of them, disagreement keeps the world spinning ;-)

"the biggest thing you miss is the social element."

I didn't get much of a social element when I was driving a forklift and if I want a social element to my work now I can open the door and walk out into the world, anytime I choose, 7 days a week.

while other people work real jobs now I can go to the mall, organize a group of like minded programmers in the area, take a class, go to a meeting for independent business people, go to a coffee shop, the sky is the limit

If you make more friends when your life situation forces you to be in proximity to people than having to do so by your own efforts that is a personal preference not anything to do with problogging.

the only thing probblogging does is give you the freedom to choose your level of social interaction with the world.

Perhaps thats why I feel different. I made a lot of good friends when I used to work in finance...I hated the job though haha Seriously, we would have good nights out etc and thats the part I miss...nothing much else, just the social interaction of meeting new people. I do make a point of going out, I go to the gym a lot and train in taekwondo etc. Plus im always out with friends. As I said in my post, I've felt it a lot in the last month because im not long back after travelling for 8 months where I was meeting new people every day

@Kevin

NONE of underlined by Mark points are NOT cons. NONE.

I make a full time online-non-profit, I barely earned few bucks. I have very objective reasons for not trying more to make money online. Yet, since 2001 I try to figured out what and how, for the moment when I`ll really start. I started looong a go to "learn" and I saw two ways on making money on the net : gurus`s way (usually goes to failure) and normal way (creative, inspirational, nonconformist way). Once people will be more awared that internet is just an alternative with NEW features but not related to real life, new opportunities will be open for them.

Coming back to make-money-online, and "not self employed via the internet as yet" (quoted from your comment), I`m not, as I said before, if you do not consider webmastering (not my site, that is unrelated) as a self-employed-on-the-net. I could easyly get a life sponsored from there (webmastering) and have no regular-real-life job, yet exactly THAT one keeps me in contact with both RL and VR. I enjoy every second I am in front of computer, down town with friends, at mountain with my tent, reading a book or having a nice conversation.
Mark know also all those things.

IF one LOVE what he/she do, then coming back on the subject 2 weeks or 34 years from today, that one will say same thing.
IF after a time one get bored and all become a pain in the ass, that one may reconsider it the all "story" and do changes.

The bad-bad-really-bad situation is when one feel today is doing what he/she love to do and later realize is no longer so pleasurable .. This type of people are ones ending by ranting to others : "watch out, it aint gonna be so nice allways, you`ll see, we`ll talk after some time ..."
Two kinda peoples reach to say or think that :
- "shallow-easy-going". They have very little knowledge about what powerfull is the self-know, self-education. They barely have idea what certain activities invole and require on long terms. They think make-money-on-internet and make-a-living-on-internet is same thing. Proved by facts 95% fail, then they come out and realize they are in wrong place-wrong time.
- "fashion-makes-the-rules". Impresionable, followers, ready for lot of efforts to COPY other`s style. Hardly traces of creativity, allways in need to have a model, very few or not at all knowledge about how internet - pc works. Once they face the need to do more and don`t find anything to copy-imitate, they start ranting things are hard, life sucks, people are harsh, living is difficult and so on. Same as the other ones, they fail to understand that making money from internet activities start from 1 $ / year. They don`t understand making a life-income from net need more than being able to do what ONLY others have done (and cease it to do coz start to not working any more - which is what "gurus" reveal).

My one cent.
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Wow Valentin, you must have some pretty big coins over there in Romania! That was one huuuge "one cent". :P But that's why we love ya buddy!

And Mark, yes I fully agree on this one. There are many more benefits to being able to do things as you like and on your own accord, as opposed to being told/ordered to do them by someone else when it's convenient for them.

I don't see any of to be cons. Problogging simply gives you the time and the freedom to do the things you couldn't do before, whether that's being social, exercising, traveling, or just plain sitting home on your ass. Problogging is also a major springboard to other wonderful things and oportunities, both entrepreneurial and otherwise.

Bottom line, even if I had to do the WORST job in the world, I'd still much rather be governed by myself than by someone else!

Shine on,
Aaron

@aaron - great bottom line, says it all

"Bottom line, even if I had to do the WORST job in the world, I'd still much rather be governed by myself than by someone else!"

@valentin, I love it ;-)

I think some people need to go back and look at what I originally said and what was said in the original post 'Con's of Being a Problogger'.

You are implying that I don't like working on the internet, nothing could be further from the truth. My views on the subject are in my post in black and white.

All I am saying and all the original poster is saying that there are some negative aspects of this kind of job, no one said they hated their job and no one is saying they want a different job.

There are negative aspects to every job on the planet. A top exec at microsoft might love his job but hate that he has to travel so much, a nurse might love her job but hate her low pay, a truck driver might love driving a truck but hates being away from his kids so long. There are negative aspects of every job and all the post was doing was acknowledging it.

Again, I reiterate, you need to go back and read the original posts as some are replying as if the original posts were claiming that working on the internet is terrible.

Mark - I do agree with a lot of what you said but as I have said above, I think everyone is misinterpreting what was said :)

@kevin - don't sweat it we still love ya

All of the cons he mentioned are not cons, they are poor choices made by the author.

Since you work for yourself being a 'problogger', everything you do, or do not do, is your choice.

Therefore, if you choose to waste your free time in front of a television set, it is not the fault, nor a con, of the 'problogging' but a result of you being a lazy ass with no direction.

mark - haha. not sweating it at all. I think this is a good debate. :):)

Joshua - I agree that its your choice if you sit in front of the tv. Growing up I used to watch TV a lot but now I rarely watch it - infact, your lucky if I have watched more than an hour in the last month. When im not at the pc working, im at the gym training or im out with friends. Perhaps the social element I keep referring to doesnt bother everyone. I love meeting new people and I do admit, that its up to me to go out and do just that. However, it can be difficult to do that if you are swamped with a project and working 50 hours that week. :)

@kevin -sounds good

@joshua, thanks for stopping by and commenting, interesting site you have.