Blogging As Profession?

What was your reason when you started to create your own blog? Was it to improve your writing skill? Or to make more friends? Or to create a place to express your idea, thought, and feeling so you can share it to others? Or to collect your poems or stories? Or just to follow the trend around you when most people around have blog? And more or and or. For whatever the reason was, you and I already started to blog and made it as one of our daily or weekly or even monthly activity.

From the first time i started my blog, one reason why i sarted it was that i intended to practice my English. It was bacause i hardly used it since i was graduated from my undergraduate year. And even during that time, i never used it frequently. Since i started this blogging activity, at least once in a week i wrote something just to update my blog. Maybe it is one of the best ways for me to practice my English and to practice my writing skill also. I do realise that my English still not good until now, and that's why i'll keep blogging to become better and better. Another reason is that i want to have a place of my own expression and share it with others.

Through time, there was a new trend in blogging activity. Some bloggers nowdays create a chance to earn money from blogging. They [bloggers] saw that there was an opportunity to make this blogging as one way to make a living. It means that the blogging becomes a profession. This trend actually not really a brand new one. There were a lot of people out there who already started to make blogging as a profession. But as far as Indonesian bloggers is concerned, it is a new phenomenon.

Recently, there was one of Indonesian bloggers figure, Budi Putra, who was reported had resigned from his permanent job as an online managing editor at Tempo magazine and Koran Tempo (Tempo newspaper). And do you want to know why he did this? He did this because he decided to be a 'full time blogger'. (Article in bahasa Indonesia), and which also means that he left his good job position and salary as well, just to do another way of earning a living, blogging.

Generally, most people will shock with what he had did. It seems to be a risk choice to sacrifice a good job in order to try a new thing which seems to be unclear and uncertain. Maybe some of us is wondering what and how can he do mantain a good blog site to earning a living. But for me, i do believe that he did this not without a 'full time of thingking' also. In fact, according to him, "masa depan Internet ada di blog" dan "masa depan blog ada di content" ( the future of the intenet is blog, and the future of blog is the content), so he already knew well what and how he will mantain his blog site. He already knew the risk, and also know the way to solve it. That's why he take the risk.

I salute him for his strength and bravery. By taking the decision to quit from his job, it shows that he want to catch a more bigger 'fish'. Who knows? Maybe someday you or I will follow his path and start to blog as one way to make a living. Congratulation for you, and all the best.