• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Catherine Gacad

  • About
  • Categories
    • Archives
    • Blogging
    • Burning Man
    • City Guides
    • Education & Politics
    • Favorite Books
    • Finances & Retirement
    • Parenthood
    • Relationships
    • Religion
    • San Francisco Bay Area
    • Travel
  • Hire Me
  • Subscribe
    • Feedburner
    • Bloglovin
    • Feedly
  • Search

All Posts

Paid to Blog, Paid to Burn

I got a call about getting paid to blog. How it works is I would get a topic that I would have to write a couple paragraphs on. I wouldn’t be able to pick and choose. I’d get my assignment and blog about it. Sounded simple enough. I could do that. Then I realized the topics are actually businesses (duh, I should’ve known) like diet pill companies. There’s a lot I would do to pay off my student loans, but I wouldn’t promote hokey businesses.

I took diet pills back in business school, back when I worked out as if I was trying to qualify for the Olympics, weighed myself twenty times a day, and had an eating disorder. Hydroxycut diet pills that jolted me awake and kept me up, vacuuming until the wee hours of the morning. Neighbors would call down to the front desk. The front desk would call me. “Are you vacuuming? It’s 4am in the morning. Lady, you’re disturbing the building.”

“Omigod, I’m so sorry. I had no idea!!!”

I don’t write or blog for financial gain. I do it because I love it. Speaking of financial gain, there’s upheaval brewing at Burning Man. Ownership. Trademarks. Arbitration. Lookout, here come the lawsuits.

Related

Tweet
Pin
Share
0 Shares

01.10.07

Tweet
Pin
Share
0 Shares

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. PhredtWK

    January 11, 2007 at 9:48 pm

    You must realize it was the ‘wiping’ entry that got them interested! 🙂 Just kidding but this might help with that issue. Again with the emoticon! Sorry, I’ve been in a stream of consciousness commentary jag all day. I wrote Andy with a comment meant to sung to the Sound of Silence, the sushi picture on his blog is at fault.

    Reply
  2. Mark

    January 13, 2007 at 8:54 pm

    Just put some google ads on your site. You can make some extra $$ without blantently prostituting yourself. A nice compromise

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Welcome to my site, derived from an advice column I wrote while getting my MBA. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I give helpful, opinionated advice based on my own experience and from the expertise of my extensive network. For more, click here.

Categories

  • Archives
  • Blogging
  • Burning Man
  • City Guides
  • Education & Politics
  • Favorite Books
  • Finances & Retirement
  • Parenthood
  • Relationships
  • Religion
  • San Francisco Bay Area
  • Travel

Popular Posts

  • An Exploration of World Religions: Zoroastrianism
  • A Flowchart for Choosing Your Religion
  • Why Do Guys Date Girls Who Barely Speak English?
  • Touring Sunnylands, "Camp David of the West," near Palm Springs
  • UC Berkeley English Department
  • How to Avoid Fecal Coliform Bacteria on Your Next Flight
  • What to Know About the Lair of the Golden Bear
  • Daily Interviews
  • Pre-Thanksgiving Not So Good News
  • Oysters at Cafe des Amis

Back to top

© 2025 Catherine Gacad.