Personal vs. Professional Blogging

I have been trying to explain to myself, perhaps even come up with excuses about why I haven’t updated my own personal blog, why I am a professional blogger and my own blogs are completely suffering from lack of attention.  It has to do with professional blogging versus personal blogging.  I started out as a personal blogger.  The personal hobby as it started then became a passion.  I love it.  Then I found a way to take my passion and make into a way I could earn money doing it.  That to me was a bonus.  As is with everything it seems I took that to the next level and then the next and so on until finally now I am a business owner doing it as a career.  This is where I forget about the old days and talk about how hard this fun passionate thing has become.

We all have heard me say I am like the saw about the cobbler’s son not having shoes and that is more of an excuse than I care to admit to, but on this occasion it is true.  I must first sit down and pound out a blog post for a client and by the time I get done with the blogging for the pay, the blogging for the fun seems not so fun anymore.  I had that same experience as a ski patrolman here in Colorado.  I loved to ski.  I then made it a job and it was not so fun anymore.  We always talk about doing what we love.  But what happens when your love becomes a job?  I am still wondering about this myself as I sit here and finally put my thought down here at a blog that has been completely neglected.  It seems that most of my epiphanies and all gone to client posts and this one gets the leftovers.  I guess if nothing else, a little whining now and then is easy to write about too.

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