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Now You Know to Never Put All of Your Eggs in One Basket

(If you are relying on Medium for income)

Marcus Musick
Never Stop Writing
3 min readJan 11, 2025

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Diversity isn’t only good for investing, but it’s also important for writers. Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve probably noticed that the earnings are almost non-existant on Medium.

I’m hopeful things will get figured out, but I have no idea when that will happen. I also feel that Medium isn’t telling us the whole story.

Anyway, the main point of this article is that you should never rely on one platform or client if you need the money. Finding multiple sources of income is always the best option, even if you have to pick up a part-time job somewhere.

Medium can be a nice place for some side income each month if you put in the effort, but it’s not dependable, and anything can happen to disrupt the best-laid plans.

I also realize that quite a few people don’t write for money here, or at least that’s what they keep saying, despite all of their articles being behind a paywall. I’m sorry, but sometimes I get tired of listening to bullshit. Can you imagine meeting a plumber and he tells you that he has a passion for unclogging toilets and that it’s a privilege to work for free?

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Marcus Musick
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Written by Marcus Musick

Freelance Writer for almost 8 years. Founder of Never Stop Writing. You can reach out to me at https://substack.com/@marcusmusick.

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