Malaysian pro-blogger Liewcf makes $X,000 per month, is that a good trend to the IT and techie world of Malaysia?
Liewcf, a Malaysian Pro-blogger has given a talk at the Malaysian webmaster talk and he claims that he is making $x,000 per month from his blog every month.
The x here could be 2,3,4 … and even 7, 8, 9. Imagine, if Liewcf is making more than $5,000 USD a month, it’ll be about more than RM15K a month, which is much more than an average guy working in the IT industry in Malaysia.
A programmer works in the IT company could get the salary from RM1,500 to RM7,000 or more, depending on which state you’re in. Those who work in the Kuala Lumpur MSC zone will most probably get in the range of RM3K to RM8K if you’re just a programmer.
If you’re unfortunate, happened to get attached to a China-man styled company, you’re getting worse and less wages. Due to the poor salary scales in Malaysia, and the weakness of the Malaysian government law, to protect intellectual property, many and more IT savvy guys or techies have switched from being an IT technical guy (such as a programmer, software developer) to a pro blogger. Liewcf is one of them. And the other that I know is hongkiat.
If I’m not mistaken Liewcf used to be a programmer and he quit in 2005 Sept 09 to become a fulltime pro blogger. The reasons behind are he wants more free time, which he dedicates more times to sleep, watching TV, reading newspaper and gaining weight.
Quiting a daytime job and becoming a pro-blogger might be the dream of many IT-savvy guys. This is due to the IT world might NOT be paying that well. Some more, you will always have to see the face of the boss while working as a white collar in the office. Perhaps, there are many reasons that will put you off, feeling non-spiritual working at today’s IT office in Malaysia.
In many smaller towns, programmers might be only used by business men to develop some software and they’re getting little pay, and eventually the business men own all the software as their own property and sell it to make more money. This definitely demotivates many IT savvy guys from continuously contributing to the IT world. And many hope to quit their day time job and cling on blogging. This really sounds very unhealthy to the IT industry in Malaysia. As, eventually the country will lose out many innovative and tech savvy guys, and we’ll fail to develop innovative and competitive products to show the world, to achieve the Mission 2020.
To opt blogging and quit your daytime job is definitely not an overnight dream or change. It takes many years to build up your blog as popular as Liewcf’s. I’m also a guy in the IT, and I’m also making money from blogging, which I make $X,000 a month from my other blog (Not this one, this is not meant for making money yet). But my x shall be much less than the x earned by Mr Liew.
But I’m not a fulltime blogger. I’m still in the IT world, leading a group of programmers and involved in some cool web applications development. Perhaps, if I become a fulltime, I’ll be able to make more x dollars from blogging. But for the time being, I only consider blogging is my side income or as a hobby of learning more from the techie world. I enjoy blogging but I love my job too. Maybe, I’m the lucky one, since I’m also the business owner and a director of the company, I get more flexible time. And I can manage my time well at night by posting 3-5 posts a day.
Frankly, it seems pretty hard to get good programmers or software developers these days. It’s most probably most of them have become fulltime bloggers or they’ve opened up their own business.
Update: Perhaps, the IT industry shall look into giving a much more secure and cozy environment for the programmers and techies to work. It’s best to be an environment secure in the sense of financial and time. And giving less stress to those techies. It’ll be best they can continuously contribute to the IT industry as well as making some bucks out of blogging as long as they can manage their own time. Increase your TQ (Time Quotient) is a must to get richer these days.
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