Making a Living with Blogging

I started blogging about ten months ago and got quickly hooked. Very shortly thereafter, I started wondering if it might be possible to make a full-time living from blogging. Within months I had five blogs set up. I've been posting to each of them about once every five days on average. I'm now making a whopping six dollars per day!

This is dismal to be sure, but I haven't lost hope. I'm quite encouraged that my blogging income could realistically go up to $900 per month before the end of the year. And if that's possible, I'm quite sure it would be possible to go up to $300 per day before the end of next year.

I'm lucky that I have the time to devote to this now as I'm home with my baby. I've got another few months to make it work before I have to give it up and get a real job. In the meantime my husband is out there earning our daily bread.

The best resource I've found for people who want to try to make a living from blogging is ProBlogger.net by Darren Rowse. If you are serious about trying to generate revenue from your blog, you've got to read his posts on a regular basis to stay up to date and to learn as many revenue optimization techniques as possible.

Darren Rowse has a very entertaining writing style. He's also up-front about his own path to riches with blogging. His earnings have been growing exponentially. Recently he wrote that it looks like he will make over $30,000 this month. Rowse generates this income from a stable of about 20 blogs. I think the blog that makes him the most money is a very product specific blog about digital cameras. I think out of his twenty blogs, probably the top three generate eighty percent of his income.

My husband is dismayed at my blogging habit. He sees that I spend many hours a day at the computer and that I'm generating pennies per hour for my efforts. As I've been at this for many months now, he does not share my optimism that this will ever be a profitable endeavor.

Darren Rowse has had some entertaining posts about his wife's views of his blogging. At first she was very skeptical and was pushing him to get out and get a real job. But now he says she would kill him if he ever quit blogging ;-)

I'm curious about Rowse's wife - who is known only as 'V'. Apparently, she still drags herself out of bed each morning to commute to some job from which she returns at 6:30pm.

I'm curious as to what kind of job this must be. She must feel very passionate about it. If her husband is now making an annual projected income of over $360,000 you would think we would be hearing about her quitting her job to pursue her real passion.

Does anyone have the scoop on what "V" does for a living?