Alan Johnson lays down some hard truths about non-productivity, in a guest post at Daily Blog Tips. The fact is that some people haven't found their calling and thus won't find much productivity in their current work. That also applies to blogging, especially if you're not working in your dream niche. (Though I should point out that in my experience, freelancers tend to be generalists and thus enjoy NOT focusing on a niche.)

This post triggered a thought I'd had recently, that many new bloggers seem to be relatively fresh out of college and some have never held a job offline post-college. Call me a pessimist, but I think it's a bad idea not to work offline for at least a while before trying to become a full-time blogger. At least unless you're absolutely certain you have a gift for entertaining through writing, and/or you're an experienced entrepreneur, in case blogging doesn't work out for you.

In a related vein, Daniel Scocco wrote at Daily Blog Tips recently, asking do you really need to go to university if you want to work on the Internet or be an entrepreneur? He listed later in the comments several successful, mostly American entrepreneurs who did not get a college degree. But some of these people came from money and others simply had entrepreneurial minds before entering college. Most at least attended college.

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