Blogging for Jobs

A former employee of Yahoo blogged about being fired and wound up with a new job.

I’ve been blogging for several years, and although I’ve received offers to blog for free on other sites, I haven’t gotten any paid work as a result of this blog.

I have applied for some paid blogging jobs, but – maybe because CFS is a controversial topic that they don’t want to be affiliated with – nothing has come of those applications.

Like so many things, it’s not what you know, but who you know. And nowadays, I associate mostly with other patients – if they knew about a paying job that could be done from bed, they’d take the job themselves.

I do everything that they tell you in job-hunting classes – get your name out there, show people that you know your subject, etc., but with a readership that is primarily patients (who aren’t in a financial position to hire me) with a few detractors (who are here to make fun of me, make fun of CFS, and verbally abuse me for not working full-time, without ever doing anything to help), this probably isn’t the best place to blog about looking for work.