I work as a freelance writer and blogger. A lot of the people who learn this think that I have an easy job. I can’t tell you the number of people who have asked me to explain to them how to earn money from blogging. Most of them believe I can explain it over a short cup of coffee. The think that this work is easy since you do it from home. They don’t seem to understand that it requires a variety of different skills to be able to make a living doing freelance writing from home.

I complain about this problem sometimes. When the recession started hitting home, a lot of my friends turned to me to get advice about how to start doing what I do. I found myself getting snappy with them because I was offended by the fact that they thought my job required no real skill.

However, I know that I’m guilty of making this assumption about other jobs as well. How many times have I looked at a job and thought “oh, I could do that”. You see jobs that look simple - selling food at a farmer’s market, doing diploma framing - and you think that they’re easy enough for you to handle. The truth is that most jobs require some sort of skills and those skills might not be as natural to you as you think at first.

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