I Came Back to Medium After 2 Months — This Is How Much I Made
I’m mind-blown by the amount I’ve generated.
From my childhood, I had no idea that I'd make a living as a writer. But in 2021, Medium came into my life and everything changed. I started writing daily here because I found out that Medium pays writers based on the content they produce.
After writing daily for over 6 months, I got to know that Medium didn’t pay Indian writers at that time. But in 6 months of writing daily here, I fell in love with writing and realized I wanted to make a living as a writer. So my journey of finding ways to monetize writing has started.
First, I thought I'd make money as an affiliate by writing content that is SEO optimized. But because I was never a fan of writing for the algorithm, I soon lost interest and quit that.
After failing at affiliate, I started my own blog but again I failed because of the same reason. So I decided to start on LinkedIn and build my personal brand there.
3 months of consistent posting and I quit that too. Reason? I had no clue about how I could monetize LinkedIn. I was just producing content without any idea about monetization. I realized that only writing would not save me; I needed more skills. So I started investing my energy into learning other…
