What Makes My Articles Unique? Part 3: Don’t Expect to Earn a Living from Writing

Earnings from technical blogging, for most bloggers, are small. Yet, I have published ~500 quality articles over the past 3.5 years.

Zhimin Zhan
7 min read2 days ago

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Every writer’s blog is unique in its own way unless it is plagiarised. I’m simply highlighting my unique aspects.

Part 1: Originally for my daughter and myself
Part 2: Not striving to be a Techfluencer
Part 3: Don’t Expect to Earn a Living from Writing
Part 4: From rare combinations of experience, hands-on experience in various roles (coming soon)
Part 5: Being Direct and unafraid to say what others won’t, and most of my predictions are later proven correct, (coming soon)
Part 6: Responding to Public Requests for Assistance on E2E Test Automation (coming soon)

Nearly all my articles are behind the Medium Paywall, i.e., only paid Medium Members (~$5/month, currently on special $4) can read them (please note, a paid Medium member can read articles from all authors). Naturally, people would think, “Zhimin, you are trying to make good money from your articles.” You can find my answer in this article, and you’ll likely gain a better understanding of earnings from writing in technical fields on Medium.

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.