What blogging is not

I'd say that about 99 percent of people who think about starting a blog have the wrong idea what blogging is. Some people think it's this weird complicated thing that only the best can figure out how to do. It's not. It's rather simple to get started, and you will learn more and more as you go along. Other's think blogging is something that requires you to be on the computer all the time. That's also false. Most bloggers spend just a few minutes to an hour a day writing for their blog. However the more time you spend getting traffic to your blog, the more money you will ultimately make.
The most common misconception about blogging is that it is a way to get rich easily without doing any work. Get that out of your head. Most bloggers will give up before they ever hit the $100 Adsense minimum payout, and will probably be just wasting a lot of time they could be spending on something else. So if you are expecting to quit your job, and live on just a blog or two you will be very disappointed. Having said that, if you are someone who likes to write, or are good at writing than you can make decent money in time.
If you aren't someone who particularly likes writing, or don't have much patience than you should probably find an a different way to make money.