I write for a living, which is pretty weird. I work at Blue Fountain Media, a web design and online marketing company. I do copy for websites, and social media marketing.

I know it's traditional for copywriters to sprinkle their job description with zam-POW adverbs and extraneous clauses, but you've got to figure that I provide dynamic, viral, compelling, sparkly content or whatever if I'm getting paid for it.

Before I did SEO, I was involved in finance, as a hobbyist (still am), investor (much less so), and recruiter (no more). My finance career peaked while I was in high school, though: I got quoted in Forbes (I touted a stock on a message board; it dropped 50% a few days later), and tried to sell my social security benefits on eBay (they shut me down).

I write about SEO, copywriting, and life in New York at http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/ .