I write all the time, but nothing that would publish me a novel nor have I been published anywhere professionally. When I was younger, I would write short stories and stuff like that. Again, nothing worth making into a novel.
When I was in college, I had developed a fascination with wanting to help college students establish their careers, or help people who were having a midlife crisis and were in a career already change careers if they so desired, or just to help make the workplace better.
Having gone to school for Psychology and after graduation, I was unable to get a job and pursue it. Of course, it would have helped to have gone back for a Masters Degree, but I had no money. So I did the next best thing: I was a programmer at heart (teaching myself when I was young), so I used that skillset to get a job.
However, my love and passion for wanting to understand and help people in the workplace never died. So I did the next best thing: I created a website that helped people with jobs, careers, and the workplace. I scoured the Internet searching for a website similar to my idea, but I could only find individual blog post articles related to the topics I was interested in writing about, nothing that really made the entire website about the topics of jobs, careers, and the workplace. Little did I know that there were many people who would actually be interested in learning more about what I was interested in.
After writing dozens of articles and publishing them, I opened the blog up for others to contribute. It has become like a full-time job but I love it. I am sure so many people reading the website are encouraged to write their own articles, and every experience at work helps me write yet another article. The topics are endless and the ideas are endless.
So I basically write about work to help people deal with work. Articles like: How do you ask for a raise? How do you impress your boss? How to deal with back-stabbing co-workers? How to get along with your boss. and so on and so forth. I'm hoping that one day if I ever do decide to go back for a Masters Degree, I can use this information in some way for research purposes, but my aim is to just make the place that we are at for nearly most of our lives, 40-50 hours a week + driving time a better place to be. The website has been up for several years now and we just hit a benchmark of 1,500 posts.
Every week, I check my inbox, and I've got a ton of new articles that people want to contribute! So this is not just my website, but it has turned into its own community of contributors, and those contributors share with their friends and following. Contributors include freelance writers, marketers, startups, individuals (doctors, lawyers, professors, plumbers, electricians, CEOs, board members, bosses, programmers, engineers, etc.), and even professional researchers at some well known universities. I even get people from Canada, Europe, Phillipines, India, Japan, and Australia who send in articles. I would have never talked to these people otherwise. The diversity teaches me about what work is like around the world. I don't do any marketing for it. I just write and others write, and we share it with the world, and those who get it love it.
When I was in college, I had developed a fascination with wanting to help college students establish their careers, or help people who were having a midlife crisis and were in a career already change careers if they so desired, or just to help make the workplace better.
Having gone to school for Psychology and after graduation, I was unable to get a job and pursue it. Of course, it would have helped to have gone back for a Masters Degree, but I had no money. So I did the next best thing: I was a programmer at heart (teaching myself when I was young), so I used that skillset to get a job.
However, my love and passion for wanting to understand and help people in the workplace never died. So I did the next best thing: I created a website that helped people with jobs, careers, and the workplace. I scoured the Internet searching for a website similar to my idea, but I could only find individual blog post articles related to the topics I was interested in writing about, nothing that really made the entire website about the topics of jobs, careers, and the workplace. Little did I know that there were many people who would actually be interested in learning more about what I was interested in.
After writing dozens of articles and publishing them, I opened the blog up for others to contribute. It has become like a full-time job but I love it. I am sure so many people reading the website are encouraged to write their own articles, and every experience at work helps me write yet another article. The topics are endless and the ideas are endless.
So I basically write about work to help people deal with work. Articles like: How do you ask for a raise? How do you impress your boss? How to deal with back-stabbing co-workers? How to get along with your boss. and so on and so forth. I'm hoping that one day if I ever do decide to go back for a Masters Degree, I can use this information in some way for research purposes, but my aim is to just make the place that we are at for nearly most of our lives, 40-50 hours a week + driving time a better place to be. The website has been up for several years now and we just hit a benchmark of 1,500 posts.
Every week, I check my inbox, and I've got a ton of new articles that people want to contribute! So this is not just my website, but it has turned into its own community of contributors, and those contributors share with their friends and following. Contributors include freelance writers, marketers, startups, individuals (doctors, lawyers, professors, plumbers, electricians, CEOs, board members, bosses, programmers, engineers, etc.), and even professional researchers at some well known universities. I even get people from Canada, Europe, Phillipines, India, Japan, and Australia who send in articles. I would have never talked to these people otherwise. The diversity teaches me about what work is like around the world. I don't do any marketing for it. I just write and others write, and we share it with the world, and those who get it love it.
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