Bit of a rant. But it’s absolutely shocking to me what gets attention sometimes.
My most popular article was my stupid Walden parody this year.
Meanwhile, my political writing gets more attention than the revelation that the number of court reporter jobs is going down — on a blog meant for court reporters!
I mean, what does this tell me? I’ll get more hits if I blog about movies and news than court reporting. Maybe that was an easy conclusion to come to. But it’s kind of sad for me, because it means a lot of the stuff I put time and energy into probably wasn’t worth it.
My passion is in speaking out against injustice and the autocrats threatening America and American workers, big and small. But I guess, being that many of us are doing well in our personal lives, we don’t all see the cliff I’ve seen and the inevitable worker glut that I believe is coming. Fair enough. Maybe someday there’ll be enough people in my base to do something about it.
I think I’m going to do more political and news-related stuff. It brings in the readers. I’m sorry to those that tune in exclusively for the court reporting news, but if my dream of turning this blog into a real operation is ever to be realized, it’s going to need more funding, and at this point, it’s pretty clear to me I’m not going to get that funding from court reporters. Thanks to those that got us this far.
To those that tune out, I get it.
Everybody else, enjoy the show.
There is so much stress right now. I’m more stressed reading about the dire straits of my job than I am reading about politics. I have to limit both but especially the stuff about work.
I can agree with that. I’ve definitely reached my limit before. People should definitely take breaks from reading this stuff. It’s not healthy to be absorbed in all the time. But my gripe is more for the people who have zero awareness, not valued readers like you.
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Also I hope you find yourself in a less stressful place soon. This is a heavy stress time of year and … I think we all get it.