Well, hopefully my blog ad revenue will continue at the rate it has the past week for the rest of summer. At $50 a week, it might actually pay for good portion of my truck’s camping trip fuel bills this summer. That said, I’ve not been lazy, and actually been updating and re-doing a lot of maps on my blog lately with the latest datasets. Since September 20th, I have made $700 in ad revenue. It makes the sting of paying $530 for three years of the hosting seem much less of a bite. Of course I’ll have a lot less after the tax man bites.

It’s kind of fun getting paid to tell my story, share photos and maps of the places I love. I put a lot of time into the blog, creating new content and developing ideas. And the blog has certainly helped me develop not only my GIS skills but also my data science experience and knowledge which has been key at getting my position in overseeing the Data Services department. I can do so many amazing things with a few lines of code, mostly thanks to skills learned as a blogger. Made some great connections too through the blog.