BONUS SATIRE
Umm… Excuse Me, I Did Not Get The $500 Bonus
If you’re like me, gather here for a cohort conference; This can’t be right

I woke up Friday morning to lots of articles talking about a mysterious $500 being added to 1000 writers' April 2021 earnings. A whooping thousand and I was excluded?
These writers left us here and walked to the Medium podium to pick up their cheques with a wide grin. They should have been more somber. Should have looked to us for permission to accept their gift. There should have been no victory lap.
My thoughts went from Awww, that’s so sweet, to those writers are so lucky, to I’d like to be in that 1000 someday, to hitting my head saying ‘Why not me?’ Then, I countered with a ‘Why me?’ That sums up to four stages of grief.
How many stages did you go through?
I made sure to read as many ‘Yay! I got the bonus’ articles. To torture myself some more and see what the fuss is about these other writers. Hmmph. Notice my ‘other writers’? It is intentional. These writers left us here and walked to the Medium podium to pick up their cheques with a wide grin. They should have been more somber. Should have looked to us for permission to accept their gift. There should have been no victory lap.
It does not matter if some of these writers have already published over 250 stories in just six months, like Mary DeVries. No, it does not matter if some of these writers have been serving us quality content for years. It definitely does not matter if these writers have been deliberate about consistency. Nahhh, I turn a blind eye to all these facts. Let me seethe in peace!
Fellow non-recipients-of-bonus, our convergence draws to a close, but our action plan remains:
- Write consistently
- Write quality content consistently
- Consistently format your quality content To a Tee
- Consistently interact with fellow writers and other writers
Notice my consistent repetition? That’s how you stand out. That’s exactly how you join the next batch of ‘Yay! I got the bonus’.
Yo! these other writers better watch out! It’s on!
“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.” — Jim Rohn
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