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Should you quit your day job to blog?

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...But only if you are already making plenty of money from it so you can already afford to lose that mundane day-job.

Before quitting your day-job to blog as a pro, make sure you are certain that you have a secured decent financial future, which doesn't involve your "real" job. Also, it helps if you're good at blogging and you have been doing so for a while.

The Seven Signs Of Being A Good Blogger:

1) You can tap your titles away into Google and your blogs come up right at the top.
2) You can quote your own work in a bar and strangers can know what comes next.
3) People email you, asking for your opinions on issues, or asking questions about your blogs.
4) Other people (who you don't know) have links to your blogs on their blogs.
5) People put extracts of your blogs into chain emails.
6) When searching for your own blogs with a search engine, you can also find other people's blogs with quotes from your blogs in it.
7) You're asked to give your opinions on TV, as an accomplished blogging celebrity.

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