Should You Quit Your Day Job to Blog Full Time?

The Internet has changed our Life and the way we view things so much, that often we can not even imagine a day without the Internet to give us News, Entertainment or in some cases provide us with income. Yes, the Internet has rapidly made it possible for us to make a fulltime living from the comfort of our own home. The Cottage Industry has slowly become just another branch of the electronic work based industry. We have work from home based businesses, like freelance writing, data entry work, advertisement specialists, medical transcript writers, post on forums for pay, surveys for pay and one of the newer inventions of the Internet is the Blog.
The question in a debate arouse: Can you make a fulltime income just by working with your personal Blog? Should you quit your Day Job to strictly do what you love, tell your Boss that he can take his Job and ....well you know the Rest. Needless to say the debate become quiet heated after a while, with surprisingly many voting for yes. I sat in the middle for a long while and then after thinking about my own tries in trying to switch my way of living from working and writing to full time writing had to give my honest Opinion as follows.

If I had a place in a perfect World, where I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth or were married to a super rich person, I would love to give a resounding YES. Having my Dream of living the life of a fulltime Writer and Artisan who through here creative sweat and imagination makes a fantastic living for her-self and her family, I would dearly love to agree with wide eyes wonder to such a concept. However, from a realistic and tested point of view the sad answer has to be NO, at least not for quiet a while.

I would like to present to you some of the Reasons, why such an undertaking may be handicapped at the onset. Keep in mind that once you have spend enough time, money and effort and it has turned into an actual Business, then the answer would slightly change, or would it? All the Reasons given here therefore, go of the Idea that this is a fairly new Blog and you are new to the money making side of it.

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