{"id":3636,"date":"2022-02-11T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","slug":"ghostwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3636","title":{"rendered":"GHOSTWRITING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found out this week that a friend of a friend is making an extra $5,000 a month writing for other people. While living on the mission field!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Ghostwriting&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And he&#8217;s doing it part-time.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And you know what? If I made $5,000 a month at anything, it would be the highest paying job of my entire lifetime. By a significant margin.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Which, I suppose most people would think is pretty sad for someone who is 53.)*<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I start asking myself, &#8220;Why can&#8217;t <i><b>I<\/b><\/i> do that?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A voice in the back of my brain then generates a list of reasons why I can&#8217;t.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But you know what else? I am slowly coming to the conclusion that there is only one thing stopping me from doing the same thing as that friend of a friend.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it&#8217;s not any of the items on that voice&#8217;s list.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the voice itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*************************<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Those people might be right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out this week that a friend of a friend is making an extra $5,000 a month writing for other people. While living on the mission field! &#8220;Ghostwriting&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 And he&#8217;s doing it part-time. And you know what? If I made $5,000 a month at anything, it would be the highest paying job of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}