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I Made 19 Cents on Medium Last Month. What Do You Have to Brag About?

It’s really my own fault

Klara Jane Holloway
3 min readDec 8, 2021
A woman with a shocked look on her face.
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I have not exactly been a top earner from the get go but I’ve done better then this. Since July I’ve made at least a dollar a month. I guess it may be the new algorithm. Or are my articles and poems are just crap? I just got started last June so I’m still learning the ropes and finally found the best way to do that is to read, read, read, other articles. When I started I took a great course on how to navigate the platform. It was all so new I better take the course again in order to refresh my skills. And, admittedly, I’ve been slow at publishing.

Still, 19 cents? What a loser!

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That’s barely worth putting in my bank account and maybe why in 2022 you need 100 followers to be in the Partnership Program. I just reached that number not too long ago. Medium shouldn’t have to take the time to deposit a whopping 19 cents in any account anymore. I see how much more serious I need to take this writing gig. Not to make more money but to engage more audience. I just randomly write about escapades in my life I’ve experienced and apparently these are not that special. I have to see…

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Klara Jane Holloway
Klara Jane Holloway

Written by Klara Jane Holloway

I write about my experiences in life. Some mundane, some sad, some funny, and hopefully none boring!

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