Vacation sickness and blogging dollars
After returning from a two week vacation, I was struggling with getting back into the work routine. I was plagued by vacation sickness - we all know that terrible emptiness of driving back from the airport after a great fun time! I began questioning my basic assumptions about work - why work whole year and get only 2 weeks off? Why not take more frequent vacations? Why not be in perpetual vacation mode? Of course, these fantasies are rarely sustainable and who wants to be on vacation for ever anyways? Soon I came back to reality. Still, that nagging feeling would not go away. Coincidentally, around this same time Business Week magazine released an online story about the top money making bloggers. As I went thru the news piece, I was captivated by the picture below of Jeremy Schoemaker and ended up reading his blog shoemoney.com:
And that is how the inspiration for this blog was born. A week later I am writing the first posting in what I hope to be the first of many blogs. This blog is going to be about capturing my journey; about learning; and helping others along the way. I have entered the game so late, that others have already made valuable contributions. I would like to recognize two blogs that have been of tremedous help - both for inspiration and practical steps on blogging. These are:
Let the games begin!
