Thanks to Tris, I know that an interview I took part in some time ago is now published. The interview centered around blogging, of course, but was in particular angled towards high school students and job options.

Obviously I think there is room for pro bloggers as a career. It’s kinda what I do for a living. But, more than that, I think there is ample opportunity for high school students now and in the future to use blogging to leverage career options. Imagine making blogging your part time job, instead of working in fast food? Which one, do you think, would help you in future writing-based careers? Which one teaches writing, research, and communication skills? Now, I’m all for fast food careers - I worked at McDonald’s when I was a teen - but blogging would have been far more useful to me when I hit University!

Here is the start of the article:

If you’re something of a cyber-junkie, you’ve discovered blogging. Maybe you’ve even given it a shot yourself — after all, anyone can do it. But did it occur to you that a few bloggers earn healthy incomes from their online journals?

Blogging is big. “It’s growing by leaps and bounds,” says Paul Chaney. Chaney is president of an Internet marketing and business blog consulting agency based in Tupelo, Mississippi.

“Many companies are asking existing employees to set up their own blog and use it as vehicle to talk about the company. Microsoft, for example, has over 1,800 employee bloggers, though none of those are paid to blog,” says Chaney.

Great news for hobby bloggers. But if you’re going to make a career out of blogging, you’ve got to earn money — enough to live on — doing it. There are a few ways to do this.

Read on for more of the interviews of myself, Tris and others…