Occupation? Blogger.
Oh please. I wish respectable media sources would stop giving credence to the idea of “professional blogging”. Imagine having the occupation on your passport listed as “blogger”. Is there a more ridiculous idea? It would be like taking up potplants and suddenly making a career out of it. Actually, pot plants are a much more legitimate professional area to submit one’s time to that blogging. But of course, pot plants wouldn’t interest bloggers since there is no way to talk about oneself all day if your main activity is replacing soil and watering leaves.
Blogging, in practice, has become a synonym for masturbation. It’s unphilosophical, materialistic navel gazing with no goal other than to comfort the ego either by elevating the bloggers own sense of self worth (low by default) or by elevating the balance of his bank account via the same means. But in reality less than 1% of bloggers make any money worth writing home about. And they wouldn’t have to write home, they are already at home. Their mothers’ home.
Here’s a short list of legitimate professions, which took me 0.00023 nano seconds to think of:
- Doctor
- Teacher
- Banker
- Musician
Here is a list of all the professions which people really really wish were professions but are actually just bullshit hobbies:
- Blogging
- Actually just blogging
Well, you’re not fooling me, bloggers. Enjoy it now while it lasts, because eventually the whole world will wake up and realise that just because something is written on the internet, this does not necessarily mean it is worth reading.