Today Someone Has Paid Me To Talk About Printer Ink Cartridges
January 5th, 2007
Believe it or not, it’s true.
Today, someone has paid me cold hard cash to talk about printer ink cartridges. And while I never imagined getting paid to talk about printer ink cartridges, I have to say it feels pretty darn good to get up, brush my teeth, run a comb through my hair and power up the laptop with the exclusive goal of writing about printer cartridges. I could have been asked to write about straws, dental floss or home mortgages. But no…
Today, someone has paid me to talk about printer ink cartridges.
Talking about printer ink cartridges (like the Canon Printer Ink Cartridges I’m so fond of) reminds me of the time I ever had a printer at all. It was one of those glorious laser printers that could shoot off like ten pages in a minute. The kind of glorious laser printer cartridges that ended up costing an arm and a leg and then STILL you ran out of the ink before you printed a hundred pages. Fortunately times have changed and I no longer feel slighted by today’s advanced, dark and glorious printer inks.
The big question is, who gets into the printer ink business?
I know lots of people who grow up wanting to be writers and actors and stock brokers and teachers and scientists and salesmen and believe it or not I once knew a girl who wanted to sell prescription drugs out of the back of her late 1994 Volvo station wagon. But printer ink cartridges, like the far superior (and sleek to the touch) Epson Printer Ink Cartridges, who wakes up one day and tells their high school guidance counselor that they’re thinking about a career in printer ink cartridges?
It’s a question I can answer today, as someone who decided to do just that e-mailed me and offered me an undisclosed monetary amount to talk to you about printer ink cartridges.
And surprisingly, I wasn’t just asked to talk about printer ink cartridges in my own country. Seemingly aware of my almost unchallenged popularity in the UK, the powers that be (at the printer ink cartridge society) extended the olive branch of peace, goodwill and brotherhood while also suggesting I make mention of their Brother Printer Ink Cartridges available in the UK, for those blokes with the glorious English accent.
Let’s face it — that argument you always have with your friends that you can’t find good customer service, a good burger, or a good printer ink cartridge in the UK must stop now. It’s obvious to me (now that I’m getting paid to tell you about it) that the UK (and specifically this Brother Printer Ink site has everything you could ever dream of in the world of British printer inks.
Right, so that brings me back to my initial story about the printer ink cartridge running out.
Way back when, before society had reached the level of advancement in the printer ink cartridge world that they have today, you’d finish off that ink cartridge, curse the heavens, and use the damn thing as a doorstop. Or a paperweight. Or a blunt weapon to keep in your glove compartment (instead of a gun, knife, or taser) that the police could never ever arrest you for.
Fortunately, there’s such a thing today as Ink Recycling. Which is just yet another talking point I agreed to mention, since today someone has paid me to talk about printer ink cartridges.
What can I say. I’m a whore.
To the rich printer ink cartridge guys. Who I love.
Because they paid me to you know what about you know what.
Did you actually receive cash money??
Comment by Mark K — January 5, 2007 @ 8:48 am
Mark - Two things. First, I love printer ink cartridges. Second, yes. Cold hard cash.
Comment by Pauly D — January 5, 2007 @ 9:02 am
I’m getting paid in hugs for replying to this post.
Sadly, they are from the same rich printer ink guys.
Comment by The Delightful Peter DeWolf — January 5, 2007 @ 9:03 am
I am being paid in hugs for replying to this post.
Sadly they are from the same rich printer ink cartridge guys.
Comment by The Delightful Peter DeWolf — January 5, 2007 @ 9:04 am
Suddenly I feel compelled to buy printer ink. Strange since I just bought a new printer less than two months ago and have a ton of ink left in the included cartridges. How so very odd.
Comment by James Cooper — January 5, 2007 @ 9:24 am
if the cash you got paid was cold, can we assume it was coins?
Comment by dgm — January 5, 2007 @ 9:52 am
So corporate of you Paul. I am disappointed but as I father myself, I understand the need to keep food on the table. Just promise you won’t be a shill for term life insurance next.
Comment by Jerry — January 5, 2007 @ 11:22 am
i can only dream to be in your shoes and write about printer ink cartridges…for money!
Comment by Groonk — January 5, 2007 @ 12:13 pm
Were you paid in pennies?
Comment by Amy — January 5, 2007 @ 12:56 pm
you sell-out.
I guess you gotta start the college fund…..
Comment by Kathleen — January 5, 2007 @ 1:06 pm
oh and because you say you were paid, I’m not buying any of these products EVER AGAIN.
(Did I sound fierce enough?)
Comment by Kathleen — January 5, 2007 @ 1:07 pm
The printer ink company who hired you have found the golden goose. I can’t even imagine the advertising exposure this post has garnered for them. Whatever they paid you, I’m sure it wasn’t enough!
Comment by Jeff — January 5, 2007 @ 1:20 pm
Amy - Actual bills, actually.
Kathleen - You are the ultimate fiercegal.
Jeff - Would you consider $1,000 and a year’s membership to 24 Hour Fitness “not enough”?
Comment by Pauly D — January 5, 2007 @ 1:28 pm
How about free printer ink cartridges? Did you get paid with some of those, too? That’s what I would have held out for…..
Comment by cdub — January 5, 2007 @ 1:54 pm
I’ve never owned a printer or a printer ink cartridge. That makes me a marketing opportunity, but somehow I don’t feel the need…..there is an empty-hole in my soul where the printer-cartridge desire should sit….
Comment by ::Wendy:: — January 6, 2007 @ 1:59 pm
So lets see, there’s about 20 of us that will read this, only 15 of us (oh wait, you commented twice so actually 13) even commented, only one person has admitted feeling compelled to purchase unneeded printer ink. I think the people paying you cold hard cash made out pretty well.
By the way, I am learning that you will not work for cash unless it’s both cold and hard.
What does that mean exactly?
Comment by jacquie — January 8, 2007 @ 8:37 pm