Hot on the heels of the Blog Apocalypse meme created by the Urban Monk, I now find myself tagged by Anthony at Antbag as part of the “Why I blog” meme that is also going through the blogosphere at the moment.

The question of why I blog is an interesting one, because there are times I don’t really feel like I am blogging. To me this is simply maintaining and updating a website, a term that used to be a little more common ten years ago, which is when I designed my first personal website.

The term “personal website” has gone the way of the dodo though, so blogs and blogging it is.

The InterChange Desk is a blog, or resource dedicated to providing information and advice to people considering changing careers. I guess in effect The InterChange Desk constitutes a career change in itself for me.

It’s the first time I have done something quite like this, jumping on the whole pro-blogging bandwagon, choosing what is called a niche, despite having the aforementioned personal website and journal (the predecessor of the blog) since 1997.

So why else? I blog because I almost love to hate it!

Despite the fact I love writing I can have a lot of trouble with the creative aspect of it, and I will sit, fidget, wander around, surf the net, and sometimes feel generally frustrated for long periods of time before I can finally get myself started on a piece, and get “into the flow”.

This is a difficulty that has a name. “Eating your frog“, and is a term I first heard mentioned by the people over at Flying Solo. Once this “frog” (and I guess we aren’t talking about frogs of the chocolate “Freddy” variety) is consumed however, the floodgates of productivity fly open!

The satisfaction and fulfilment of (finally) getting into the flow is more than enough to quell any doubts or uncertainties I have in regard to the writing and blogging process.

I also love the way, that once I get going and into the flow, the articles I am writing seem to evolve a life of their own, and often end up “writing themselves” as it were.

This sometimes has a knock on effect, and often as I am writing one article, ideas for one or two more can be spawned. This article is partially a case in point, as it is kind of relates to yesterday’s The career puzzle post.

So there you go, how’s that for a couple of reasons for blogging?

Hopefully though I am being of some assistance for those who are looking for career direction, having had so much difficulty finding itself myself for so long. Hopefully what I am doing here is creating a resource, even if it is 500 words at a time, that will in time be of value to a wide range of people.

So thanks to Anthony for tagging me, and in typical meme fashion I shall pass the baton along, mainly to a few of the people I met at the Sydney Blogger’s Meetup last week.

So Icy, James, Miss Andrea, and also Cedric, since he likes these, and even you the reader, if you’d like to pick up this tag, please go right ahead!