How Quitting Professional Blogging Radically Improved My Life

Running my own passive income online business was my fondest dream for my entire life. I mean my entire life — I remember being in second grade, organizing binders full of business ideas and fantasizing about becoming a millionaire CEO one day. (Yes, I was an insufferable child).

Since I grew up when the iPad came out, I tried my hand at app development for a few years. But my passion was never for software. It was, above all, for the written word. So as soon as I was old enough to know what passive income blogging businesses were, I knew what I had to do.

And I made a pretty good go of it. I wrote 500+ blog articles, convinced thousands of people to sign up for my mailing list, made thousands of dollars a month on Medium, produced and sold online courses, and lived on my blogging income for several years. I know many people out there would give their right arm to experience the success I enjoyed.

But the dream wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.

It was cool to live off of passive income and not be beholden to keeping bosses, coworkers, or even particular customers happy. I had to keep my thousands of readers happy en masse, of course, but that’s not the same as having the entirety of your income in the hands of a small number of other people.

But the trade-off was definitely reduced income. For the same amount of time and energy I put into working as a blogger, I could have made many orders of magnitude doing the same work for someone else. And now that I work in a different industry, I do. I work the same amount as ever, and my income has risen dramatically.

I pathologically avoided traditional employment because the idea of having to keep individual people (like bosses or clients) felt to me like the embodiment of Rosseau’s chains. But you know what? I was a fool. I feared that making professional commitments would enslave me, but in fact, it freed me, because now I have the economic resources to spend my life in ways I’ve only dreamed of for the decade-plus years I was a solopreneur.

Passive income gurus like to poo-poo on trading your hours for dollars. But the fact of the matter is…

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