I was invited to submit a story to Blogger Stories. Here’s mine 
And an excerpt:
I’d like to say that I had a master plan. 5 years ago I was an unemployed bum with a few positive marks on my resume. Okay, two positive marks. First, I’d done Microsoft’s first website. And second, that I’d helped lead the Y2K project for the UK. The problem being that the Microsoft website was more than 6 years earlier, and the Y2K thing wasn’t very helpful immediately after the event (even though our project was a roaring success).
So I was effectively an unemployed bum with no prospects. And while going from that to a published author, marginally respected blogger, occasional speaker/consultant and owner of the third largest blog network in the world (b5media) might imply some kind of plan, the truth is that it was more blindness than planning. Literally.
August 10th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
What marks a successful person is the ability to seize an opportunity and run with it
August 10th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
Jeremy,
That’s really an inspirational story. I have a similar story, that starts with being an unemployed bum. And now, I have the 224,000 largest blog on the planet. I think I have some work left to do on that front!
Have fun at the TechCrunch party. I hope to hear good news coming out of it.
August 11th, 2006 at 12:25 am
Jeremy – many thanks for sharing your Blogger Story. Yours is most certainly an inspiration!
August 11th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
Hooray for success stories! Having life go positively after a rough start is awesome
August 24th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
These success stories always inpire me. great story