Well now isn’t this interesting! I am totally excited about a few articles I’ve read from fellow marketers about becoming more independent from what is quickly becoming a rather seedy neighbourhood.
Mark over at 45n5 started talking about taking things in a different direction with his Internet Homesteading and then I was reading Blue Mushrooms - which for me TOTALLY hit home was the constant struggle to break out of the rat race. I really loved Sapphire’s article - because I think for many of us we’re sitting around wondering how to make ends meet and how can we do that online. Or there are those of us who live with this monkey on our back - that fear that we’re going to lose our jobs… get laid off… and that totally sucks. It totally wears us down.
When I first started this blog I wanted to document how I was making money online. I wanted to share my stories and find like-minded people who shared the same goals as I did. Maybe even help someone else who was just starting out.
Lately though, this blog hasn’t been doing that - because to be quiet honest - I haven’t really been involving myself in the niche as much as I once did. I see many of my peers who started out around the same time I did, who are doing rather well. Who have that opportunity to dream big because they’ve taken the steps to get there.
Me… not so much. Currently I’m smiling big when I get my google cheque every couple months for a little over $100. Every once in a while I’ll get a nice little surprise in my inbox or mail box - very occasional money.
To be honest. I am frustrated.
I don’t really have a lot of time and what time I do have I want to focus on something that gives me a little more of a guarantee that I’ll get a bit of income. Now like Mark and Sapphire I don’t really want to be gunning for the 10 room mansion or for that matter a black American Express card - I just want to feel OK. I am working towards paying off my debt. When that’s done I’m looking to put a new roof on the house. You know - normal things. But sure I won’t lie… I have a few things I’d love to do and purchase if I start making a bit more money. Who wouldn’t. But that’s not the “be all - end all” for me.
I just think it’s time to re-evaluate the situation and make a few changes on my end to get the ball rolling towards the bigger goals I have. Because that $100 every now and again isn’t really getting me where I want to be. I want to feel “safe” and I don’t want to live with the fear that I’ll end up living in my car with my cat.
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May 22nd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I’m so stoked about this angle on the topic, I’m thinking about using a different domain to start a whole new blog. Which would be entirely stupid since Blue is already established, already SEO’d for “make money online” and so on. I’m just saying, when I get really excited about something, I want to go use another domain name, ROFL.
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:32 am
Employers want you to work in fear, that’s how they get the most work out of you. When they have used you up they’ll spit you out and replace you with with a younger model so they can start the whole process again.
My last employer outsourced my job to India. I now wok for myself.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:23 am
@Sapphire - I am totally the same! I have quite a few domains that were borne from ideas from existing ideas. I really think that would be a great site to start. I think there are more and more people out there looking for “something else”. Maybe that’s a part of it
@BlogTalks - You know, I thought it was just me who felt like I had a target on my back. But I’m seeing more and more that it isn’t just me. It is so freakin’ sad that employers do that to employees. Outsourcing… newer, cheaper version… I’m so annoyed. Thanks for your feedback
May 25th, 2008 at 7:16 am
My goal was always to earn enough money per month to be able to move to somewhere cheap and not have to work. I’m sick of working for someone else and I’m hoping I never have to do it again! I wouldn’t be able to survive in London on what I’m earning now, but I can live comfortably in Asia.
I’ve been at this seriously for several years now and had the same problem as you - no time. I always had lots of ideas but no time to work on them. Since ditching the job I’ve got plenty of time to develop new ideas… I just need to stop being so lazy and actually do something.
Keep at it because the payoff is worth all the hard work it takes!