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Does Blogging Cause A Distaste For Cubicle Jobs

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This might be pretty obvious, but since I started blogging and earning a little bit of money, my distaste for my cubicle job has dramatically increased!

With my cubicle (regular) job, I’m stuck in a dingy grey cubicle setup, with very plain lifeless-colored walls.  The cube walls are high, so nobody can casually look at me.  Visitors have to come to my cubicle entryway to socialize.  Lately, I’ve been imagining that my day job, and in particular my cube, is much like a prison cell in the movie Shawshank Redemption.  Sometimes I even fantasize about escaping for the fun of it…  In fact, with friends I sometimes tell them I am going to tunnel out with plastic spoons someday… Silly, but funny at the same time.

While I’ve always had these feelings to some degree, blogging has intensified them so that I’m starting to really dislike my job.

So you might be wondering the reasons I dislike my job because of my blogging?  Well, here they are:

  • I can and do blog in restaurants, libraries, cafe/coffee houses, and at home of course.
  • I can even blog at friend’s houses although I don’t do this much…
  • My entire blogging empire can be managed from my laptop and a simple laptop messenger bag.
  • I can make my own hours (right now it’s past 1:00am where I live).
  • I don’t have to commute if I don’t want to when I’m blogging, this saves precious time for other activities.
  • I can blog from remote location and even different countries, as long as I have an internet connection.
  • I can write blog articles without having an internet connection.  This even increased the flexibility of blogging at any time or place.
  • I’m my own boss!
  • I’m unlimited in creative possibilities!  This makes for a rewarding job!
  • I don’t have to deal with corporate politics or clichés like I do at my cubicle job…
  • If I were to make enough money from blogging, I could travel across the world while working via blogging.

Blogging and online activities really have a lot going for them!  While I keep busy at work and actually have a decent job, I’d much rather be blogging for a living.

If you blog and have a full time cubicle job, what do you think?

MR