So, I've been under a lot of pressure lately to find a new job.  Pressure not necessarily from anyone else, but from myself.  The place where I work (A Call Centre none the less) is extremely boring and frustrating at the same time.  I make the same three calls all day everyday.  But anyway thats beside the point, I'm making the effort to find another job and that is what I'm going to do.

With that in mind, I have been intrigued of the idea of being paid to be a professional blogger.  I love blogging(duh, I'm here on Vox aren't I?), and I want to make good use of this as a career.  It works great with my school schedule, as well as it expands my creative writing.  Furthermore I also do love writing.  Case in point my new book project.  So I have been looking online for ways to become a professional blogger.

The best place I came up with is Weblogs Inc.  I read their blogs constantly.  TV Squad and TUAW I read more than three times a day.  I applied using their cool Web 2.0 Ajax-ish application form on Monday.  Still haven't heard back yet, but I'm hopeful.

Which brings me to the point of this post.  Anyone out there that has some pull on people at Weblogs and would like to give a struggling Broadcasting Student a chance, help a Snowball out.

References available upon Request.

Steve Saylor “Snowball”

Update:  Okay, so TV Squad just put this post up about wanting bloggers for either Lost, American Idol, and 24.  Wow, that would be great and its perfect timing too, except I'm not that big of a fanatic that they want.  Mainly I can't watch the shows live because of my current job!  That really grinds my gears.  I love those three shows, but I don't get to watch them that often so I'm behind the loop.  I don't know if I should apply or not.  They want three samples of blogs to be seen on TV Squad (which I did when I first applied) but nothing about those shows.  Whats a blogger to do?

Update x2:  Jake made a good comment to just apply then get a TiVo in regards to the TV Squad job posting.  I replied, but I wanted to give my response here as well.  It explains why its hard for me to apply for that specific job.

Here's the comment I posted:
I'm debating it, but like I said, I'm not that big of a fanatic for those shows.  I feel I would cheat the audience for those shows because I don't know as much.  I mean if I had the time I would research more about it, but I just don't.  I've come under the situation before with the podcast I did with Alex Albrecht about Star Wars Galaxies.  I was only into it because I was requested by Alex to do the show.  You could totally tell I wasn't as big of a Galaxies expert as Alex was. 

Like I said I would cheapen the audience.

I could use the same email address they gave to apply directly to TV Squad for something else though.  That might work.
Feedback anyone?

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