Does McDonalds Pay More than Blogging?
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Everyone seems to be fascinated with the recent blog sales that have been going on. I say give the people what they want. I’ve written several posts about blogs sales, featuring the sale of Blogging Fingers. On that post Jamy at Seakopitiam.com said:
“Cannot agree more : ‘I’m sure if you divide $6 000 by the number of hours he spent on the development of his blog, you’d find out that this amount is a miserable salary.’
Worst than the minimum wages working in McDonalds.”
That got me thinking, does McDonalds really pay better than blogging?
To find that out was pretty simple and I’ve taken Blogging Fingers as the example. Matt started blogging on July 2nd until the end of October.
Having a full-time time 9-5 Monday through Friday job starting July 2nd until October 31st I broke down how many hours per month someone would work. I then combined all of the hours and got 704 total hours. If you multiple that by the minimum wage in California (7.50$) you’d only make 5,280$ and that does not include the taxes that they take.
I’m sure Matt put in a lot less than 40 hours a week and has made approximately 6,380$ from his blog. This does not include the leisure of working for home. Taking a day off if you feel like it, or calling in a sick day… to yourself. Not everyone can make 6,000$ in a few months, but in this case, blogging prevails.
Blogging cannot be compared to McDonalds in my point of view. I’d much rather be blogging than working on my feet in a paper hat. In this case by blogging you can make you more money than a 40 hour a week McDonalds job.
What would McDonalds do if all of their workers turned into bloggers?!
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Make Money Online said:
It takes me longer to write an article than to flip a hamburger. It may be boring to flip burgers but you can flip more burgers than write articles in one day.
Earnings on blog are more per month only if you are a top blogger!
November 7th, 2007 at 1:07 pm -
Matthew Henrickson said:
but flipping more burgers doesnt = more money
Matt of blogging fingers i wouldnt call a “top blogger” and he did fine..`
November 7th, 2007 at 1:16 pm -
ryanol said:
The reason that argument doesn’t hold water is because no matter how many pattys you flip or drinks you drop you still get paid. But if your a sh*tty blogger you arent gonna get squat.
From a risk reward standpoint….would you like fries with that?
November 7th, 2007 at 1:22 pm -
Emma said:
Plus blogging is fun. I actually have trouble pulling my self away sometimes. Although working at McDonald’s might be fun too. I liked working at Burger King when I was a teenager. By the way, my page rank got dropped to a 2 yesterday, I did have a 4. Have you heard of anymore page rank changes? As far as I know I’m the only one. Unless it is just something weird with my toolbar. ???Emma
November 7th, 2007 at 1:36 pm -
jamy : seaykopitiam.com said:
Wow, I did not know my name became the center piece here :). In fact, it is just a figurative speech :).
When you compare the figure,don’t forget McDonald does offer health care insurance, 401k and pay time off and if you add that one. It would add up to > $6k :).
If you are a full time blogger, don’t forget to factor in expense such as health insurance coverage ! Those expense can take up a big chucnk of that US$6k.My open heart surgery cost us US$400k and my recent pacemaker generator replacement costs us US$7.8k.
No, I am not trying to belittle bloggers :).
On Inc. Nov 2007, there is an article by Bill Rasmussen, the co-founder of ESPN on the subject on “How do you know when to sell your company, and how can you overcome the emotional attachment to the baby? ” He wrote : ” The right moment to sell is different for everyone and depend on your financial goals and the performance of the business.” and the same thing can be applied to Matt and his blog.
I look at blogging a very innovative business model. However, since the barrier of entry is near zero, you really need to be the best, best to make money. I would rather go this route : do a 2 years nursing school, sit for state board and be a RN, After work for 4 weeks, 3x12x50x4= $7200 , offer Matt $6k and the remaining $1200 buy gold and silver. The rest of the 4 days I can continue working up on the blogs that Matt has developed :). And work for another 4 weeks, see what other blog I can buy :). In a year, I can build up a blog empire provided I can get problogger and shoemoney to sell their blogs cheap to me, ha ha ha ha ha :).
Don’t take my words seriously :). Have funs and have a kit kat :).
I am too happy with my recent gold profit, so I am crazy :).
Jamy
November 7th, 2007 at 8:08 pm -
kher Cheng Guan said:
I agree with seaykopitiam.com. That’s why all these while when I read some bloggers who sold their blogs for a few thousand bucks and they are over the moon. Didn’t they count the time and effort spend?
November 7th, 2007 at 9:41 pm -
Matt Jones said:
seaykopitiam, I’m from the UK, so we don’t have to worry about health insurance, we just pay a steady amount of tax 😉
The other big factor is the learning. I’ve learned so much and been inspired to do so many more things online. You cannot put a price on that.
November 8th, 2007 at 3:13 am -
jamy : seaykopitiam.com said:
Matt,
Yes, I agree 101% on that : “I’ve learned so much and been inspired to do so many more things online. You cannot put a price on that.”The Chinese said “Wool comes from sheep”, meaning nothing is cheap. I lived in Australia for 20 years and has been a Australian resident for most part of my life, there is nothing called free health care because I paid 52% on my AU$82,000 per annual salary to have a free health care but here in US, hubby paid $240 monthly insurance with less than 12% tax in the US.
In the UK, you probably need to pay a big chunk of capital tax on the US$6k. Here capital tax is extremely low ! That is why Warren buffet is screaming he needs to be taxed more ! Checked one of the latest digged most article on Warren Buffet article on why he should pay more tax on his capital gain.
November 8th, 2007 at 5:15 am -
jamy : seaykopitiam.com said:
Sorry typo : “meaning nothing is cheap”. I mean free. I used Aust as an eg. because it is a British ex colony and most British colonies have similar tax system as British and they are bad bad bad ! You handover your money to the government and let them plan your health care, plan your education system, and you think you have free health care, free education, you end up paying the non efficient government workers chunk of your hard earn money than a far cheaper private health care insurance. This is my 2cents from a typical frugal investment savy Chinese American woman :):). Again take whatever I said with a pinch of salt. Jamy
November 8th, 2007 at 9:49 am -
SoggyCelebs said:
… If you work at McDonalds, do you get free food?
I guess it depends on how you market your blog. I mean… I spend about an hour a day on my blog, I get a decent amount of visitors (500 a day) and yet make about 5 dollars a month.
So yeah… I’d be better off working at Maccy D’s… But only if I get free food. I’m a fatty 🙂
November 8th, 2007 at 4:53 pm -
Jeff said:
As someone who has been “blogging” for over a year now, I can say that yes, McDonalds does pay more than blogging for most bloggers. You have to be brought up or taught by a pro blogger most of the time and have crazy google hacking experience to really make a difference blogging.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:32 pm -
Blog Building said:
Blogging could be one of the ways that I will use in order to earn money. Since it s a business, I have to stay competitive. Can you give some ways or methods on how to keep up wit h the competition in the market regarding blogging?
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