This series started last week with me talking about how to apply to Families.com to become a blogger for them. This week I have been covering what happens once you actually get hired. And today, I wanted to talk about being a Junior Blogger.
When you’re a junior blogger, it’s all rather nerve-wracking. You are reading the Handbook every day, trying to find the answers to your questions, you are pestering Lisa for the answers you can’t find, and you’re feeling just a little bit stupid. Don’t worry, this too will pass. Not the stupid part if you’re anything like me (but then again, I feel like that on a regular basis, not just at Families.com.) But when you’re a Junior Blogger, you are confused about almost everything, but eventually this will become an old hat to you, I promise.
When you are a Junior Blogger, your blogs have to read and approved by Lisa before they can posted. She will post any criticism in the blog itself (you spelled this wrong, this sentence is convoluted, etc) and you have to fix those problems before it can be posted to the Families website. Hopefully you won’t have many of these suggestions left on your blog, because eventually, Lisa will get tired of fixing your grammar and simply send you packing. This would constitute as A Very Bad Thing. Don’t worry–if you keep your blogs clean and tight (meaning no major errors) you will have no problems.
Eventually Lisa gets sick of reading your blogs one by one, and she will realize that all of your blogs are clean and tight, every time. This usually happens about a month in, and at that point, you are released, free to post when you want to. You are promoted to Senior Blogger, which unfortunately doesn’t mean you get a pay raise (the pay raise doesn’t happen until 90 days in, no matter when you are made a senior blogger) but it rather nice to have more control over when your blogs are posted, etc. Of course, Lisa still reads all of the blogs to make sure each blog is well-written and has no grammatical errors, meets the minimum word count, etc. So don’t think that being promoted to Senior Blogger means you can do whatever you want, because it doesn’t. Lisa still watches you, but it’s at a much greater distance.
Well ladies and gents, we have managed to go from thinking about becoming a blogger to being a senior blogger, and I think we have covered just about everything there is to cover. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask! Good luck in all of your job endeavors!