How Writing Took Me From Waiting Tables To Contributing at The Huffington Post
I’ve been sitting here for thirty minutes thinking about what I want to write about. I had a few ideas, but I didn’t get that “hell yeah, I like that one!” vibe from any of them. If you’re a writer you know what I’m talking about.
Now my fingers are racing across my keyboard. It’s times like these that I know I’ve found my calling.
I Used To Wait Tables…For Like Two Weeks
After graduating college last year I had a pretty extensive surgery, healed up after two months, then left for what I was sure would be my glamorous life in Orlando, Florida.
Within two days of arriving I landed a job as a server (never done that before) at a young restaurant. I thought it was great news, however it really wasn’t.
I can only describe the whole thing as a disaster.
On Friday night it was me and two other servers waiting what I can only imagine was 15 tables each. I’m serious. The next day the restaurant owner doubled the staff, but I was still waiting 10 tables at a time since our hostess didn’t know what the hell she was doing. Nice girl though.
After that night I decided I was done with the restaurant industry. I was going to quit and make money doing something else. I swear, five minutes after I got in my car to go home I received an email from a possible client on my Upwork profile wanting an ebook written for her.
How I Made $100 On Upwork As A Beginner
She was going to pay me $100 for 5,000 words. I’d later find that this rate was absolutely egregious, but I was doing backflips.
While everybody had to go melt outside in the summer sun I got to sit in my pajamas and write words. How freakin’ awesome.
That was just the beginning. Back then writing was just a way for me to make income. I had no desire to shake the world up with a publication or blog or anything of the sort. However after…
