There is a very short excerpt of Winning For a Living now online. It features Mike Smith.
I want to make, what I feel is, an important comment here. I believe Mike is the exception to the rule. I have met hundreds fellow contestors and sweepers all over North America and I have never meet anyone else as addicted to entering and winning as Mike.
To me, the purpose of taking up contesting as a hobby is to have fun. Entering is fun. Winning is fun. Including friends and family in the prizes is fun. I usually spend 1-2 hours per day entering and many days I may only spend 10-30 minutes. I remember one rare luxurious lazy Sunday where I spent 6-7 hours organizing and catching up on my online entries. What a treat!
I have never put the hobby before my family. They are involved so we enter and win as a family. My daughter does colouring contests. My husband likes late night walks and on recycle night comes home with heaps of PIN codes for me to enter. We all enjoy the fun of entering, the thrill of winning and the sharing of the prizes.
I hope people interested in becoming contestors realize there is more to the hobby than spending days or weeks filling out entry forms. The best part of the hobby (Yes, even better than winning!) are the wonderful people I have met and the life long friends I have made.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Hi Contest Queen
Thank you for send this blog. I was a little upset by the way it profiled the contesters as i said in my previous comment. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I think it would be impossible to be THAT absorbed as a comper here in New Zealand, there simply are not enough contests for that to happen.I win a lot but there are still some days I don’t actually do any contesting related things at all lol.