Chinchilla Bloggers

Scanning Upwork this morning and saw "Chinchilla bloggers needed."

Now I know why it's so hard to get blogging jobs. The chinchillas are taking all of them!

Do you know how many chinchilla blogs there are out there? More than you would think. It turns out that these rodents are voracious readers. The pay offered for this particular post was only $1.20 per 100 words, but chinchilla food and dust for their dust baths doesn't cost very much, so they are probably okay with that.

Chinchillas are extremely cute, but they chew everything. Maybe that's the appeal of having them work remotely. Adorable chinchillas on your Zoom calls but nobody chewing up your computer cords. I don't know.

I am starting to wonder how much competition there is on Upwork. Last week I wrote about babies being hired, and now chinchillas? How many different species am I up against?

Okay, back to work. (Unless you're a chinchilla. Then you should just stick to looking cute and chewing things and leave the writing jobs for the rest of us.)

Sadie

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