well it's a very humble and most often six month-delayed living. there's no money in skate journalism, you do it out of love and take what you can get. I just freelance to the same handful of mags and media outlets non stop; used to be something I'd do on the side but I just recently lost my actual day job so now I do it full time. whenever I'm not out skating I'm working, and I sleep three-hour nights. coffee is my best friend. there's more to the job than the creative side, you have to be on the phone and e-mail constantly and network like a motherfucker, plus you have to deal with all the tedious tasks like interview transcriptions from audio to text, translations, web article layouts, with new content and projects that drop every day, it really is a desk job. I'm a huge skate nerd who got lucky and barely scrapes by. if you're concerned about yourself in the slightest, don't do what I'm doing. right now I have no real safety net in terms of monthly income (for the first time in ten years), although sometimes I'm working for four different clients at the same time, and that's after several years of literally doing it for free. otherwise it's a blast and I learn something new every day; I'm thankful. I also get hooked up with the occasional translation job on the side (of stuff I didn't write myself), and other similar side hustles, otherwise I couldn't make it.