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Blogging for moolah

Ever wonder how much cash a Blogger or Web master can make?  Paula Mooney has a very interesting (though hugely incomplete) listing of 60 Bloggers, Web masters and sites that have made some pretty serious cash in the last year.

Ranging from $3,650,000 to a few hundred bucks, there are handfuls of fellow Bloggers raking it in big time thanks to Google AdSense and other advertising revenue generators. 

I am proud to say that my Typepad Tip Jar has accumulated a total of, uhm, like $15 in the entire 6 years I have been blogging (although it was only up for a few months but I digress).  But, and yes I realize this is cheesy, I have gained far more in online friends and great knowledge/idea sharing than I ever thought possible.

Reverse dowry? College loans eat post-graduate dreams

With unpaid maternity leave approaching, Adam starting a new (non-regular paycheck) job next week and doctor/hospital/bambina bills hovering in the near future like... giant hovering things....  money has been on the brain.

As with many, many people - money stresses me out big-time.  When I get in moolah-worry mode, I don't sleep well, I grimace at inanimate objects and a pleasant dinner companion I most certainly do not make.

With oh-so-many new expenses rapidly heading our way, it's hard not to curl up into the fetal position and spend the rest of the day eating orange jello through a straw.

That's why I should not read articles like this:  Student Loans, A Life Sentence

Especially when I've seriously been considering giving in and doing the student loan thing so I can actually afford to go to school and finish my freaking degrees already.   Is going to grad school even worth it really?  Should I just stop with a couple of bachelor's degrees and call it a day?

It's frusturating - you want to do what you think is right for your future (attend college, gain knowledge, earn degree, support happyfamily in the best way possible), but because of the ridiculousness of a cashflow problem, getting there is just about impossible without hurling your financial dreams to the debt collecting wolves.

I think that's what they call life, although if they mentioned all this in one of my textbooks last semester I wouldn't really know b/c I could only afford the textbook edition that was like 8.5 years behind and written on papyrus.  Oh well.

Tags:  college loans | student loans | personal finance