Do you really believe you will get rich on the internet?

In this year of involuntary unemployment and compulsive writing, not knowing what else to do with my time while some paperwork came through and I had a permit, I bumped into all these "product review" websites, write per post, or simply write and supposedly "make money".

I began a little skeptical. I signed up for Helium and wrote a few articles, nothing that took more than 15 minutes to write. Of course, I made money, the incredible amount of 7 cents. I dropped out. Came back a year later, and reading the forums, I thought I'd give it a try again. I wrote some more articles, and I won five bucks in one of its contests, but after two weeks of punching articles into Helium I realized that, while it could be possible to do, it is also drains my time.

It is totally time consuming and for practically no revenue.
Helium gives me something else than cash, after my monetary disappointment, what I found is that I build a little portfolio of not-so-bad articles that now I can show off in printed media and other websites that actually pay you fairly.

And Xomba? well, it's funny, the day I signed up I posted a review of an album and the next day I checked my adsense and it had gone up a couple of bucks, I put adsense on my blog almost a year ago and I had made also like 2 dollars in a year. My blog is not commercial so I didn't expect it to make much, but I had greedy eyes when I saw that with a small article of my favorite album, my adsense could wake up. So suddenly I started posting things that I didn't even care about. I almost posted something on that Spears girl who I have absolutely no regard for, but I was about to do it to see my little adsense go up.

I have decided that I do not want to spend my days typing for the sake of it, to see if I hit the jackpot, I find it hard to believe that people make much, I don't know. All I know is that for a moment, I got caught in "the dream" of making easy money. I would suggest that yes, we continue to write in these little places, maybe for pennies, but mostly because practice makes perfect and one day, these articles could turn into a real writing career opportunity.