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Unprofessional interview

on May 23, 2025

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When working is like playing football

on May 23, 2025

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I can be good. I can be better

on May 18, 2025

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My first run

on May 17, 2025

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Fucked off

on May 15, 2025

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LinkedIn is a cesspit

on May 11, 2025

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Having a break from the routine

on May 10, 2025

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Blogging in 2025

on May 09, 2025

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Blogging in 2025

Hello, you found this blog. Welcome, pull up a seat, relax, chill. Get a coffee or an alcoholic drink (or whatever vice that gets you off). You will need it. Why are you here? You want to know if it's worth starting a blog in 2025? You want to earn money from blogging? You want a side hustle and then hope it takes off and you can leave your crap job and be a blogger full time? Spoiler alert: It won't happen. Get real. I had a blog a few years ago that followed all the rules suggested to be a "successful blogger." It was based on a specific topic. I posted regularly. I coupled it with an "OK" social media account. I had monetisation with Google AdSense. After two years of blogging, here is my financial breakdown of how much money I earned from blogging: £60. Yep, over 2 years I earned a measly amount of money. Was it worth it? Was it worth all the time spent thinking of ideas for posts, research, time to write, edit, reply to comments...

LinkedIn is a cesspit

In the past I had to use LinkedIn for work. Apparently it was essential. It was the last unknown secret to finding new clients and lucrative business leads. If you connected with people you would achieve endless business meeting requests, large repeat orders, life long professional friends and untold riches. Bollocks. There are people who make a living offering courses on how to use LinkedIn. How they generated "£10 million in sales" and "just by playing around with it". Fuck, there are still plenty of gullible people fuelling these sharks. All I ever got from it was: Recruiters trying to connect, who then think they could head hunt me to a company I would never want to work for. Suppliers who wanted to spam me their crap that I would never have any intention of purchasing. People boasting about how great their job was, how they started a company from £1 investment (usually means they pinched, borrowed, re mortgaged, robbed a bank, sold the kids) and it how turns o...

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