Interesting question with an assumption you have ethics which often isn’t clearly demonstrated in many of today’s businesses. I guess it depends on what you write about and how honest you are in writing. As a retired, fixed income kind of guy, I look for things that can bring in gadget or book money without a great deal of sweat on my part. Since I am a technut and booknut, writing about that is a no brainer. Now to get paid for it would be exciting but am I hungry enough to ignore my conscience? I can answer that by the fact that I have been offered industry related jobs by former competitors since I sold my business. As enticing as some of the offers were, I declined as I had signed a non-compete agreement with the guy who bought my computer business. Several times I have been told that those agreements are impossible to enforce. That may be the case but since I agreed not to compete and I shook hands on that agreement, I “ethically” can’t ignore the agreement, regardless of it’s enforceability. Since I could be making way more money doing what I did in my computer business, if I was willing to ignore my ethics, than what I can make blogging about stuff, I feel pretty darn comfortable stating that I will write what I feel and see and not pander to the situation to increase my income. I will make sure that I mention the possibility of payment may result from the blog. Since I haven’t done this yet, I say possibility of payment since who knows if they really do pay you. I’ll let you know.
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