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Making money off of blogging takes a lot of time and a lot of patience. If and when you start making money writing a blog, you shouldn't quit your day job. Writing a blog does in fact give you money but not immediately. Even when you do get paid for blogging, you still shouldn't quit your day job. Instead, keep your job and blog at the same time. Blogging does make good money as a secondary source of income but won't be enough to supplement your living expenses.

Let's face it, living expenses are getting much higher. We need to make as much money as we can. Depending on where you live, there's constant housing construction and so forth. That's going to drive up your homeowner's insurance, living expenses, and property taxes. I currently live in Florida and Charlie Crist is trying his hardest to reduce the taxes on homeowners. I fully support what Crist is doing and it seems he's doing a far better job than Jeb Bush is doing. However, the insurance agencies have the freedom not to do business in Florida anymore. Living in Florida is getting extremely expensive.

The price of gasoline is going up. Whenever the price of gas goes up, everything else such as groceries increases threefold to supplment the loss of profits. The price of gas is a total killer. I miss the old times when the price of gas was under two dollars.

If you have a family, then you have to provide for them. That goes especially for your children. In short, having a family is pretty darn expensive too. Those are other expenses you have to think about. If you're not married, consider yourself very lucky.

If you're in school, you have to consider the fact that it's getting more costly by the year. Recent studies I watched on CNN states that most of the college students right now are white and upperclass. The middle class is rapidly shrinking and most of the people in this country live below their means.

In general, you do not want to quit anything to be a blogger fulltime. Even bloggers have to make other sources of income. I haven't heard of anybody that makes a sustainable source of income thorugh blogging alone. Of course blogging will net you extra cash and a bunch of doors in the future, but it's not worth quitting your day job over. It's more of a hobby or a way to vent and let your opinions out in words and get paid for it.

Blogging is like writing on Helium, it takes time and patience. Of course it's good to make money on the side for writing. But this isn't something to quit your day job over. Especially if you have a pretty good job that you like. If you don't like your job, you could blog to past the time. It'll make you feel better. You can blog from any place with a laptop and a network card. Remember, a wireless internet connection such as Sprint-Nextel costs about fifty dollars a month.

Of course you can write it off as a business expense because you have a side-job as a blogger, but that's that not enough for you to quit your dayjob. Not by a longshot. I have a friend that makes money as a blogger; but, it's not his main source of income.

In short, keep your doors open. Be very smart about it. I enjoy typing up articles for Helium, but that's not my main source of income. It's the same thing if I had a blog of my own, it's not going to be my main source of income. Think of it as this way, your job could possibly give you things to blog about.

Use your job, your school, and whatever to help your blog(s) make more money.

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