[mattbgates]

https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com

Little did I know when I thought about starting a blog focused on people ranting about their shitty days at work, horrible bosses, and backstabbing co-workers, that it would evolve into so much more. I'd solicit people for their stories and so many wanted to tell so much about it. From the webcam model, to a woman whose boss took advantage of her and gave her an "advance paycheck" in exchange for sex, to an undercover FBI agent, etc. The stories are endless because everyone has a story to tell about something that happened at work. The evolution is the focus on jobs, careers, and the workplace.

While the blog has been very successful over its 10+ year history and will probably demand I keep it going for the rest of my life, I'd say my blog has "deprived" me the ability to have the choice to walk away and do nothing with it anymore. In other words, when I first started it, it was me writing blog posts and soliciting stories from anyone and everyone willing to send them my way or let me write it for them. Nowadays, the blog has attracted seo marketing agencies, freelancers, small companies, and an audience that reaches anywhere from 2 to 3 million a month.

So each time, when I was ready to give up, stop blogging, and let it go by the way side, I kept getting emails from people wanting me to publish on the blog for them. So ultimately, it became the people's blog... and I keep it going. I have my daily contributors, but every month, it's many new people sending in more articles to me. The fortunate thing about it is learning to value my time. I used to spend 2 or 3 hours a day on it, but this has amounted to about 5 or 6 hours split across 2-3 days on the weekends answering emails and scheduling articles.

I have only seen one other similar website pop up, got featured on the news, and then fell into the abyss, where I saw they hadn't posted in weeks, months, and then years. I've never stopped publishing since I started almost 10 years ago. Unfortunately, I've also never gotten the publicity of news, but it somehow keeps being discovered. And so... I'm married to my website for the rest of my life. And why not keep it going? Especially if there are curious eyes from all over the world.

[loa_in_]

"Not the marriage you wanted, but the marriage you deserved"

E: The webpage linked is completely useless and even contains articles dated 2027, amongst bunch a of spammy "articles" that look like generic looks-like-real-but-is-not content.

[mattbgates]

Nice saying on marriage.

Me: 10 years of writing many of my own articles on the site

You: It's spammy and useless.

Well, its useless to you, but some other people might be able to use the information or maybe relate to the content.

You and I must be looking at two completely different websites. I see some short articles. I see some long ones. I see some very summarized articles which are called "lead-ins" meaning to bring people back to their own website. I see some in-depth interesting content and I see some bland content that isn't very interesting, as some of the fields some of us work in are not. Considering the 1,800+ authors that have contributed to the website, not everyone is the same.

I appreciate that you took a look, but just because you skimmed a few articles on the front page doesn't mean that the content isn't real. I do filter out the spam from the genuine articles and have tried to keep a very consistent over the years. But you saw what you saw.

As for the topic of this page, "what has your personal website or blog deprived you from?" I think I was able to answer it in the fact that at least 5 hours of my time every weekend are dedicated to answering emails and uploading/processing/scheduling articles to my website. I guess you're going to tell me those people are fake too though they seem pretty legit, even having their company names in their signatures.

[gnz11]

I’m not sure what’s going on here — all I see is unrelated SEO blog spam on the linked site.