List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter.

Well, I’m kind of doing that already…

Money is always an issue, but as a veteran journalist, I can’t just quit; as my Dad says, it is a part of who I am.

But in this day and age of internet, blogs, and streaming; earning any real money as a journalist is sketchy at best.

For the past seven years I have had my own website that is monetized but these days that doesn’t mean much. Looking at the numbers the other day, I figured out I am earning about one cent per 100 page views. And after seven years, my numbers still aren’t big enough to earn any “real money”.

The hosting site tells me that I have over 400 subscribers but my daily numbers run less than five percent of that…somewhere along the line, something doesn’t add up. Either nearly all of those supposed subscribers are bots who don’t read or no one is paying attention to their email messages when an article is posted.

Photography kind of goes along with the journalism thing. I use my own photos whenever possible. Digital photography has been a major blessing for me since I can take hundreds of photos per event.

Just think of all the photo spreads I could create on my website if I could get the thousands of print photos I have digitized??? The places I have been and the things I have seen!

But photography is in the same category as writing and creating music, everybody has a phone with a camera and are taking “selfies” all over the place.

A third job???

Well, I do a great deal of crocheting, but nobody wants to pay you for your time anymore. I crochet hats, often from donated yarn, that are then donated for those in need. For the past year that has been some children at a primary school in a blighted area.

I have someone who picks up the hats and makes the deliveries to the school and I am told the children love it. We all know that small children don’t often keep up with their things and I am sure some of them have plucked a hat from the tree numerous times; but hopefully a dropped hat is retrieved by someone else who could make use of it.

I also make blankets as gifts. The crocheting gives me something to do while I am watching TV or even reading. I cannot just sit still and do nothing, so why not do something constructive???