Every phone call starts the same way.
“Jessica, my friends ask me what you’re up to and I don’t know what to say.”
“Tell them I’m a blogger.” I respond.
“But how do you make money as a blogger?” She asks.
And then I sigh, really loud, because if I had to spend several hours explaining to my mother just how a blogger makes money then I’d have to charge her a consulting fee. Because I think we all know that every douchebag with minimal knowledge of HTML and CSS (can’t sell shit) is a social medial consultant.
Here’s what I do for a living.
- I take care of my kids and my husband
- I play tennis and go to lunch
- I tell you my stories on Whrrl
- I blog about my family and sometimes overshare
- I use twitter
- I’m launching an ad network, soon I hope
- I’ve got an app waiting for approval in the iPhone store
- I’m going on Dr. Phil to tell you moms don’t suck
How do you make a living doing this? You didn’t really expect to get all my secrets, did you?
Need something else to read? My interview is live with Social Media Club LA.
Here’s a slightly less specific (if no less nosey) question which you have every right not to answer. DO you make a living doing this?
Let the vaginas go. I read it once. I even went and looked at the pictures-eeewww. Yes, overshared and by making that post the link it’s like double overshare.
Sam, since I have an extraordinary amount of gay men who read me, I find it wildly entertaining to reference the girly bits. As I write I can almost feel y’all gagging…. and why would you want to take my fun away?
You better tell me when you are on. Or I will haunt you for the rest of your days.
Thanks for the explanation, but I still don’t quite get all of it. Maybe I’m just too old. But I do think you are terrific and smart and I’m real proud to be your mother.
I think you do something sort of awesome. And I’m at least a little bit jealous.
I get that question all the time. Although, I’m not a blogger, I run a software company…so it’s really unnerving and annoying when people ask me that shit.
Congrats on Dr Phil! I hope you tell us when you are on so we can point at the tv and say “Hey! I know her. We are like this. Seriously. We go waaay back. So it is almost like I am on Dr Phil too!”
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