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Are You Willing to Work 2,010 Days for $1,000?
Some perspective for eager new writers
I can’t remember how I found Medium.com.
I was bored — I’m assuming — sitting at my desk job in an office tucked away in the corner of a drab industrial park.
This was nearly six years ago. Medium was newish and niche and I remember loving just how simple everything was. The interface, the writing processor, the community.
I wrote and published my first piece on March 18, 2015:
Yesterday, September 16, 2020, over 2,010 days later, I cracked $1,000 in earnings. Not in a single day, no. I’m talking about $1,000 in lifetime earnings.
Sure, Medium didn’t launch their Partner’s Program until way after I joined and the majority of the $1,000 was earned this past year.
However, I say this, not to discourage the eager new freshman of Medium, but to give you a realistic outlook. “Success” comes in many forms.
