I am thinking ahead to what I want to achieve over the next 10 years.

Over the last few years I have hopped around a few jobs, and on the side learned Haskell and some other stuff, as a nice contrast to my .NET bread and butter experience.

I am now thinking to concentrate back on .NET, especially now there is a really nice ecosystem with .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Typescript etc.

As part of this I am thinking of doing a mix of blogging, some presentations at local groups, and maybe some "self published" books, all on stuff I am super familiar with from years of experience. One example would be design patterns - I found most of the design pattern explanations on the web pretty horrendous, and not as much care goes into them as the Haskell equivalents (e.g. monad tutorials!). So there is a 'gap in the market' there I could hopefully explain them better.

I wanted to see if anyone has had any success blogging where success could mean:

1. Found out about a great job because someone reached out due to blogging. 2. Got some freelance work in a similar fashion. 3. Got promoted at work because of been seen as an expert. 4. Framed themselves as an expert and got a better job or higher paid or genuinely 'head hunted' as a result.

I'm interested in all experiences .NET or otherwise!