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The Roller Coaster Of Making Money Online

Posted by Paul B | December 3, 2007 .

This last 11 months has seen some of the most amazing ups and downs of my life, one day it looks like I’m finally going to achieve the financial freedom I’ve been fighting for the next it looks like I’m going to be looking for a normal job again (days like today). One day I clear more than $1000 the next it’s $100 and all without any apparent pattern or reason. Making a living from the internet is not easy, there is no guaranteed pay cheque each month, what works one week may not the next, even when you do nail it the rules often change plus the more you begin to make the more people are looking to put you down! The strange thing is that it is this freedom to flourish, this uncertainty, this stress that made me want to leave my Civil Service ($45,000 a year salary, 30 days a year holiday, up to 18 days flexi leave a year, 11 bank holidays a year) job behind. I only lasted a couple of years of tearing my hair out at the lethargy around me, it was those years that gave me the incentive to get my little money earning part of the web in place so that I could not only support myself but my family.

Perhaps what I find strangest of all is that whenever anybody asks how I’m doing they all assume that money pours into my account with free abandon and I spend all day dossing about. Of course there are the slack days, but then again they are far outweighed by the 18 hour work days, days of sourcing links where there appear to be none, of squeezing that last little bit of on the page SEO juice out, off chopping and changing for the hundredth time to try out that new network that could be “the one”, of answering the swearing filled support e-mails from people who have downloaded your stuff, off writing new content on a subject that has been covered 1,000,000 times by everybody else, the list goes on and on. I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world though, making that break for freedom was the best thing I ever did, and just like every other roller coaster in the world this one sure as hell has the ability to grab you by the balls and remind you that you’re alive!

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  1. jackbravo UNITED STATES Windows XP Internet Explorer 6.0  December 4, 2007 10:32 pm

    Sounds more like the rollercoaster of love - you better watch out!