Cunninglinguist is the forum’s most valuable archival researcher and forensic detective. In fact, he is the only one.
So his speculations and even some of his conclusions are not wind.
But spare me from this suggestion and fate. That would be hard scrabble. Good for the ego maybe, but terrible for the pocket.
Imagine. Even to earn as little as $50k a year, you’d have to convince someone, somewhere, to give you, on average, a $1000 every week,
just for your thoughts. Every week. And that includes Easter, Christmas and all of the January holiday season. And even that highly unlikely achievement for a pissweak 50k a year.
Holy shit.
In fact, on this topic, I remember reading in the Herald the results of a survey of freelance creatives such as actors, painters, writers and the like. They are lucky to earn on average 10-15k a year from their field. That is on average. The more successful ones get a lot more than that. So imagine the peanuts left over to divide amongst the majority who make up the rest of the average.
Don’t put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington!
But now I’ve got the worry of living up in my posts to Cunninglinguist’s worthy estimation. I am comforted by the knowledge that he is a much better forensic detective than he is literary critic. So that takes some of the pressure off me.
Actually, I run an online and real world business (just me.) It is profitable enough, even though that is like asking how long is a piece of string. You can never have too much of that!