If You'd Like to Donate to Last Men and OverMen, Here's a Better Way

I've been meaning to get to this anyway. I really should do these fundraising posts about once per month.

A few things reminded me of this. A comment by Last Men and OverMen reader extraordinaire, Tom Brown

Also this Twitter storm by Tanzina Vega got under my skin.

https://medium.com/@shaneferro/thoughts-on-business-insider-ad4bc291ad8a#.tyjpfmvl7

More on Tom and Ms. Vega in a moment.

Basically if you'd like my content and would like to thank me for it, you could try to help me reach my dream of making a few Tubmans for my writing.

I do enjoy writing for the love of it as hopefully comes through when you read me. But I would love to also be able to make a few bucks at it. For one, in all modesty, I think I'm probably just as good a writer as all these folks with high exposure even if I didn't go to their fancy journalistic school or had all the right contacts.

This is what irritated me about Ms. Vega: she has the exposure and whines she had to write 5 posts a day. I do this every day in the morning. It takes me at most a few hours-sometimes less or more depending on the a few things.

Anyway, you don't have to donate. Basically if you ever make purchases on Amazon you can help me. Simply click on one of the links here and then go make your purchase.

Tom reminded me of this by his funny comment:

"Mike, I have to laugh: all the ads in your banner for this one are for hot sauce today."

Here was my answer to Tom:

Ie, it's doing it's job in putting up relevant ads! LOL

Feel free to buy some if you like. Or if you don't do hot sauce-as I don't-buy something else.

If you need it. LOL

"Seemed an opportune time to remind all my readers that if they like this blog they are welcome to buy something off Amazon to help the effort. LOL"

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/05/hillary-clinton-hot-sauce-in-her-bag.html?showComment=1462211716891#c7093231545582790010

Now Ms. Tanzania irritates me as she wrote this post meant to make everyone feel sorry for her because she had to write 5 posts a day. I have a hard time feeling sorry for her: my dream would be to write my blog but get that level of exposure and actually be paid in the bargain.

Shane Ferraro feels her pain:

"I used to work at Business Insider. I quit after 10 months. The first three months were great. There was seltzer on tap, and whiskey tastings on Wednesdays and lots of smart, young, enthusiastic people around me. During the second three months the pressure to get more traffic and write a higher number of posts per day ramped up."

"The last four months, I remember mostly tense meetings about how I wasn’t hitting my goals — five posts per day and one million unique visitors per month. I remember riding the elevator downstairs in the afternoons, hoping that no one would see me crying until I hit the front door and made a left from Fifth Avenue onto 21st Street. I cried a lot while pacing back and forth on 21st street in the summer of 2015. My anxiety got so bad I thought about quitting with no plan. It took my mother, my boyfriend, and my therapist together to convince me to stick around until I found something new."

"I never came close to hitting my goals, despite the fact that I became something of a hot take machine, churning out opinions day after day. Some of them took off and got what was seen as an adequate amount of traffic. Some didn’t. A lot of them I’m actually quite proud of, probably only because I took some time to think through them. That was good for individual pieces, but bad for my job."

"As Tanzina says in her tweetstorm, it takes quite a bit of thought to come up with a coherent opinion. I don’t have five opinions per day. I have maybe one. So I’d try to hit my post goal with other kinds of stories. An economic data point here and there. A reblog of an interesting article from someone else. Nothing quite got enough traffic."

https://medium.com/@shaneferro/thoughts-on-business-insider-ad4bc291ad8a#.tyjpfmvl7

I have literally five opinions an hour. Realistically more than that even. Yet her and Tanzina get the money and exposure and whine about it being too much.

They want more coffee breaks and socializing, less writing. Sorry, if I don't feel sympathy for them and all the other writers who apparently agreed with them on Twitter.

Sorry. As Harry Truman said, if you can't handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen. And let me be chef.