My long-term aspirations involve a PhD in linguistics and a large cherry wood desk with a stacks of my own research surrounding me.

Short-term, I need a more flexible career so that I can get a jump start on this higher education thing I adore so much. Working 8:00-5:00pm with an hour-long commute each way is really throwing the proverbial wrench in my operations. I have studying to do, meals to prepare, kitchens to clean, bills to pay and just 5 short hours between the time I leave work until the time I pass out.

Recently, I have started doing freelance writing for examiner.com and demandstudios.com (hardly a poetic endeavor). I am dabbling in a writing career with the ultimate goal of quitting my day job to work on the web. Before I pack up my desk and buy myself a comfortable chair for my home-office, I have a lot to learn.

I have started my journey by attempting to read Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content That Works. The premise of this guide is to focus on who your audience is and why they are visiting your site. The majority of people use internet for information, not to enjoy a nice fictional novel.

I haven’t quite made it through Janice Reddish’s Letting Go of the Words. I keep getting distracted by catchy blog titles like Jessica Randazza’s How to Become Internet Famous (nearly overnight). That’s it! I need to become just [internet] famous enough on the internet to be self-employed.

I have step 1 of Randazza’s guide to getting famous down– I started a blog! It’s step 4 I am going to have a problem with. I am a sleepy girl! I will keep this guide handy while working on my web content.

My last resource for this post, but definitely not the end of my quest for educating myself on web content, is How to Use Twitter.  Problogger is an excellent resource that I am soon going to spend dozens of hours perusing.

Here’s to internet fame and all of its geeky glory!