Envy
I haven’t posted a rant in a while. I guess I haven’t posted much of anything lately (ok, last night’s post was quite sizeable). I’ve been trying to only post entries with some substance to them, like decent articles with good information…so when I have nothing substantial to post, I basically haven’t been. Well, time to get back to posting what’s on my mind and now what cool stuff that I think would make a great CNET-style article or whatever.
Here’s something that’s been bugging me lately. I follow a lot of folks from the west coast on these internet shows and popular in the tech circles on Twitter, and I can see a theme with them that both bugs me and makes me envy what they do. Probably the biggest one (really not west coast, but meh) that I stopped following was iJustine. I’m not sure how much she makes off her internet endeavors, but I’m so annoyed getting a tweet from her that is her trying to decide if she’s going to film herself buying shoes, or eating at another trendy resturant that day…while I’m stuck at my normal 9-5 job working on difficult problems as a systems engineer probably making far less dough.
It’s a theme really, internet celebrities that have what seems to be cake jobs, and they post on Twitter about what they’re doing, and it never seems like they’re really working at all. I’m not really picking on these folks, they’ve obviously done something right that they can tape a show or two a week, maybe do some in-office work here and there, and basically play the rest of the week. I envy that…I’d love that kind work week. Here’s what I’m talking about.
JasonCalacanis prepping for divingtrip to great barrier reef. anyone ever stay on Hamilton Island? u can fly direct frm Sydney–good for scuba? best hotel? 33 minutes ago from web
Posted right after Kevin Rose, looks like Mr. Calacanis is having a rough day at the office too.
Or how about these two posts from Alex Albrecht. Wakes up on a week day, plays video games for three hours, and then decides to read some work email finally. Where do I sign up for that?
- just finished with the Mario Kart madness now off to check the Diggnation/TRS mail box. 12:27 PM May 05, 2008 from web
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- waking up getting ready for Mario Kart at my place… @girlhack coming along nicely! 09:26 AM May 05, 2008 from web
Veronica I would like the record to show that yes, we shoot all Tekzilla Dailies on one day and no, therefore I do not wear the same shirt every day. about 1 hour ago from web
Sooo….does that mean that she only works 1 day a week? Probably not, but must be nice to compress what normally would be a daily taping down in to one day so you can do other stuff the rest of your week. (like party at tapings of other shows).
Again, I’m not hating on these folks. I love what they do and enjoy the content/products they put out. But I look at what I do daily (and nightly when I get called on call or whatever), and compare it with some of the updates I see on Twitter coming from them, and I’m starting to think I need to move to the west coast to kick off an internet startup or create a podcast or something.
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