Again this drives home a solid point that even if you're doing mechanical-turk-esque labor, if you strive to be the best in your field you'll get noticed. Content farms are, as he said, the minor leagues for a bigger tech writing gig.
Either way your probably going to need a body of solid past work at the volume that the bigger players are after if you want to work there. I guess you can either go this route and make some small time money, or try and build your own blog following.
Of course there will be outliers who get into the good blogging jobs easier, but as he says they expect 5 quality posts a day at RRW, many probably aren't cut out for that and it's probably hard to assess without past work.
I like the idea of this - work hard / you'll be rewarded, even if the current payment is meagre - BUT, I don't think that this is necessarily the case for the majority.
This guy struck it lucky. I'm not sure an exception makes the rule.
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Again this drives home a solid point that even if you're doing mechanical-turk-esque labor, if you strive to be the best in your field you'll get noticed. Content farms are, as he said, the minor leagues for a bigger tech writing gig.
No, it drives home the point of selection bias. Someone who got noticed tells us he worked hard, we don't hear from the rest of the people.
It says nothing about whether people who work hard get noticed, or about whether if you work hard you will get noticed.
(Actually, not even that, he tells us he went to a conference and was hired by someone he schmoozed with!)
Either way your probably going to need a body of solid past work at the volume that the bigger players are after if you want to work there. I guess you can either go this route and make some small time money, or try and build your own blog following.
Of course there will be outliers who get into the good blogging jobs easier, but as he says they expect 5 quality posts a day at RRW, many probably aren't cut out for that and it's probably hard to assess without past work.
I like the idea of this - work hard / you'll be rewarded, even if the current payment is meagre - BUT, I don't think that this is necessarily the case for the majority.
This guy struck it lucky. I'm not sure an exception makes the rule.