Is it worth it to you to continue paying $5 a month to write on Medium? Would you be better off elsewhere? Is Medium the equivalent of writing on your own walls? What if you continue publishing on Medium but no longer pay to publish? — It started out great, my earnings quickly rose month atfer month and in less than 6 months I was up to $99 a month in earnings. Medium showed great promise. I could see a future when I would be able to actually earn an income worth the hours I was…

For months my income here at Medium has been falling at a horrific rate. By the end of November I expect my earnings to drop below $5.00 a month for the first time since I started writing at Medium in August 2021. At first it was great. It only took…

“I went from company to company putting in applications only to get turned down. A couple of companies went so far as to actually road test me, schedule my first trip, then back out at the last minute. Finally, the HR director of one of the companies told me what was going on.” — Many years ago I was blacklisted by an employer — a trucking company I was driving for. The job was pretty good at first but after a couple of years things started going to hell, benefits were lost, pay was falling, and as a meer employee I no control over…

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Believers know that not every dream was meant to come to those who dream. Dreamers temper their dreams with reason. Fools are insulted when reason stands in the way of their foolish dreams. — Roan Mountain I remember some years ago when a group of us were hiking up Roan Mountain on the Appalachian Trail, there were these two old men ahead of us carrying small backpacks and traveling so very slowly that our entire group quickly caught up and passed them. …