ADVICE FROM THE CHEAP SEATS
5 Helpful Tips for Dealing With the “Earnings Bloviators”
Use them with impunity
“Hey there, fellow readers and writers here on Medium. It’s that time of the month again!”
Nah. Not that time of the month. Aunt Flo took a hike years ago and I don’t miss the old broad. Too, you’ll notice the quotation marks around my lead. I took that directly from a story one of my partners in crime sent me this morning. And unfortunately, it ruined my morning.
“Why, Sherry?”
Happy to share. Because, with all the tsouris going on here, including the latest bit of news about our work being whored out to AI for a whopping ten cents per story, some twit takes it upon himself to tell the rest of us that he only made $1,606.15 in March.
Let’s throw a pity party, guys. BYOB and I’ll bring a sippy cup for the writer who looks to be all of sixteen years old. Cute kid. Like he could be a member of One Direction if you’re into that, which I’m not. Cute, but as clueless as a bat in daylight.
From what I’ve gleaned, he’s been here a year, folks. One year. And he knows it all. For those of you who’ve been bleeding out on Medium for years, as have I, how does that make you feel?
