Nice comparison of blogging and a job. At first I thought: What is this guy talking about. But then I realised your definition of a job is to be an employee. In my definition of a job, blogging can be a job as well. Depends if you blog simply out of hobby, or from an income perspective, or both. In my own experience, anything that is hobby will become a job, will become work, when part or all of the income required to live (now and in the future) is based on the 'hobby'. When income is required, nothing stays a hobby, is what I try to say. Though one may regard work as a hobby, which basically means, one must feel super happy since one is part of a small group of people who made their job from a hobby :)
I suppose when being a blogger, one is a free lancer. This is the same for blogging at HIVE, as all those who do things in other social media, including Facebook, YT, Insta etc etc. Through all these social media, money can be made. At HIVE a bit more direct. At FB a little less direct. All of these people are free lancers. The trick when being a free lancer, is that one needs to secure their finances the same as any company needs to: ie save for bad times, meaning not spend all the money in good times, but save some for bad times.
Maybe WISE (I posted about this project a few days ago) could be a solution for providing a form of basic income to all those that like to go around work life in freelance style as oppose employee style.
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Mission accomplished :))
These are such rare cases... My father as accomplished that for a few decades though.
My analogy with blogging and a regular job is actually the topic of the post and I was inspired to tackle this subject as quite a few in here are referring to this activity as a job and I was afterwards thinking to what extent blogging would be similar to a job.
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Well, if you one day decide to leave your employee status and focus on earning money through your hobby 'blogging', I suppose thats gonna be your 'job' then. One of the freelance jobs that maybe the most free of all freelance jobs, since no specific time of day, or day in week is required. Everything is none-real time. I would actually like such 'job' though my writting skills dont let me become as good as I should be to achieve that. The advantage for me: Blogging can stay a hobby :)