Get A Job & Stop I.M

I love confusing teachers too - My teacher doesn't know what wordpress is and so it was pretty funny when i tried to explain it to her

Believe it or not all of the worlds societies for the most part are being shaped and influenced to fit into a certain mold.

College is the breeding grounds for corporations and a new type of human slavery where your freedoms are taken away and locked into how a certain corporation says you have to operate.

Most all people believe you have to go to college and then get a job at a corporation or large company of somekind to be highly successful. Its not their fault really they were programmed that way. It starts the first time you go to public school, you are taught to conform. (by the way, I believe college is a great place to learn and if you can do it do it)

I am not promoting rebellion for sure, but I am talking about not being confind to the "status quo".

You can go "where" and "as far" as your believing takes you, as long as it's not fantasy land.

Its this freedom to believe and operate outside the box that we are robbed of from the very starting point of our lives that holds us back, it keeps many, many people in a state of mind that they cannot succeed and therefore are stuck in poverty or at least living way beneath their true potential.

We have inherent in ourselves a yearning for true freedom and can have it if we believe, but its taught out of us by the systems of the world......

Freedom begins in the mind. A person who is locked up in a real prison can be more free than a person who is on the outside if they have the right mental mindset.

Sure they may be behind real steal bars, but whats worse is for a person who is not in a real prison/jail but who is chained and locked in their mind by bars that are made up of their own wrong thinking patterns and their own lack of believing caused by all the fear, doubt and worry and limited vision that is pressured, forced, built and placed on them from a young child.

Just what me and my mate have been talking about in the gym. Good Point Well Put!

I like this. People do tend to bring other people to their own comfort zone. I think internet has create a new set of jobs opportunities, but many people still feel uncomfortable with it.

Thats good!

Thanks for that! There have been many times when i tell some of my co-workers that i am pursuing my own business online in which they look at me like i am speaking another language or something..sometimes i second guess myself because of it, but i know for a fact that i am doing the right thing..i just have to surround myself with people who have the same mindset.

Its interesting because, I spent 18+ years working hard and going to school. Now that I'm focusing on something different for a about a year, people try to make me feel like a bum off of the street.

In August of this year, 6.2 million people had been unemployed for six months or more. These are, for the most part, people who have bought into the "get a real job" mindset. Not working out too well for those folks.

8.5 million people are self-employed. These are people who aren't waiting to find a "real job".

Yes, as another poster noted, business is business, and friends are friends. But someone who does not believe in me and support my dreams is not my friend. At least not a good one. Perhaps in the "acquaintance" category.

Quick story about one of my experiences.

I was really excited about IM when I started. Almost everyone except my Dad and one of my brothers thought that I was nuts. At that time I told a lot of people what I was doing. Then I started to make a little bit of money. The scoffers still laughed but I peaked a few peoples interest.

Now I make more than enough money to pay my bills. I decided to go back to school about 2 years ago. So during school I spend almost no time online, and still make a decent living.

Now, some of those scoffers ask me how I do it. They seem to think that there is a big secret, and once you know the secret there is no more work to be done.

Back in May I was researching ways to diversify. I tried a couple things that didn't work out. Then I decided to do some Clickbank campaigns. I read quite a bit about it. Just before I started I was visiting one of the scoffers. I thought that this person had changed. They sincerely asked me to show them how to make money online. I decided to show them my latest project.

When I was finished they said it sounded like a good idea. However, they wanted a surefire way to make money online if they were going to invest their time into it. Basically they said that they would be happy to copy my main income maker. But they were not going to put their time into something that I didn't know if it would work or not. I said I did know that it would work because Clickbank has paid out over a billion dollars in commissions. Someone was making that money. It wasn't enough to get them to take action.

Well right after that I spent an entire week setting up my campaign. I didn't make much at all the first little while. But then it started to pick up steam. I tweaked my campaigns and currently they are consistently making me a few hundred dollars a week. I know that many of you make much more than that. But to me the time that I put into it, and the fact that I am banking a couple of grand a month seems to be well worth it.

Well a couple of weeks ago I was talking to someone else about CB and the same scoffer overheard me saying what I was making. After a few days they called to ask me if I could show them what I do. I reminded them that I already had showed them the entire process. They explained that they had been busy and forgotten everything that I had showed them.

Many people would like to make money online. Either to supplement or replace their income. But few people are actually willing to do the work. In fact that is a good thing. Because if it was too easy, we would be out of a job.

I'm stealing that one :-)

That's a good one, I like that! I don't think anyone would believe me but oh well, that's their problem.

I do find it difficult to explain to people what I do online, even my husband tells me to go get a 'real job'. It's very frustrating, but I guess unless you are doing it you probably just don't understand it. I think if I wasn't doing IM and someone else told me about it I'd probably think they were dreaming!

hahahah ! good one !

I'm glad I'm not the only one that gets that feeling sometimes...

In forums like this there is definitely upside to letting people think you make a lot more than you do. Thus the posts in this thread like "Well, wait till they see you driving your BENZ! That'll show em!!!". It's kind of a juvenile response to a juvenile question.

Unfortunately, if you graduate from college and follow a white collar career path, cubicle is pretty much where you will end up. So long as you are trapped in the corporate world. Of course you can always start freelancing but no benefits-no health insurance thing scares most people, so a lot of people I know do that on the side.


This is why corporate career sucks and it's far from secure. They can lay you off or fire you any given time. Relying on one source of income isn't a good thing, even if you do IM you should always look into multiple projects and creating multiple streams of income.

I started IM when I got laid off from a terrible, horrible cubicle job. I didn't want to go back to the cubicle again. I worked my ass off 12 hours a day to learn skills - even tho I didn't make a red cent, I didn't care. I wanted to do something I love (like building social media assets). I am still learning, I download everything from the War room and devour it, and I sell the stuff I learn to offline clients.

3 years ago I was living in filthy trailer, surrounded by mud and nasty critters. I left my luxury condo and moved there to make myself miserable enough to take action. Now I live in a nice, pristine house that will be completely paid off netx year, relaxing at my backyard watching the stars and the beautiful greenbelt, and hopefully I will have a traveling Tim Ferriss like lifestyle soon. No cubicle job ever gives you that. Sky is the limit when you are an entrepreneur (not necessarily an IM one, we have physical product projects going on too).

And it's not any riskier than a cubicle job where you could get laid off any day.

I remember not being able to find any jobs for 6 months after losing a former cubicle job.

I don't believe someone who reads this forum for a couple of months and has war rooom membership would have trouble finding clients for 6 months.
Even the most clueless n00b here can learn how to set up wordpress site and do some basic SEO and go sell this service to local business owners in their neighborhood.

Success and seeing the look in your disbelieving friends' faces when you finally make it is priceless, and very powerful motivation indeed! This is a great way to turn a negative into a positive, i.e. when your family and friends are constantly berating you for playing around on the internet, instead of letting it get to you the best thing to do instead would be to turn it into a powerful driving force that motivates you intensely!

Paul

So true, many people have this lottery mentality when it comes to making money on the internet, which is what is fueling the crazy "pushbutton/make money overnight" product craze. Perhaps they think that just because we're making money via the internet, it's something "magical" where you just need to push some keys on the computer to get money pouring into your account like it's some kind of slot machine or ATM.

The internet is just another medium for doing business in, and all the basic rules of business still apply. You may have increased reach and reduced expenses when using the internet, but you still have to market something and sell it in order to make money!

Paul

There seems to be a particularly addictive flavor of kool-aid going around.

Somehow, people got the notion that formal education is useless, and that it's more useful to read a few ebooks.

Some rail on and on about being trapped in a cubicle while rhapsodizing about spending hours behind a computer in a home office. Can't stand the idea of a 'boss' telling them what to do, but sounding perfectly giddy about kissing some idiot's backside because he spent $27 on your ebook.

I don't get it. And neither do friends, relatives, etc.

Coming to a forum and whining about it isn't going to change anything. About the best you can do is accept that they don't understand. If you can't do that, maybe you do need to exclude them from your life. Better than getting an ulcer over it.

With the exception of some external events that can't be predicted or prevented, your life is what you make of it.

I still have a real job and am doing all I can to generate sufficient income from IM to do IM full time.

I'm fortunate that my wife thinks my IM ambition is great and she encourages me tons. My real job pays well so I don't want to bail out until my IM income is consistently higher ... am getting closer every week.

As for other people, I don't really talk about my IM because they wouldn't get it without a long drawn out discussion. I do, however, offer help to friends who need a site. I'm presently doing some IM pro bono as we speak. I don't mind doing it. Actually, I kind of like spreading the word.

Frankly, I think IM is the greatest gig going. I went through a lot of schooling to land my present "real job", yet I have 10X's more fun doing IM, which doesn't require any schooling. Anyway, a long road travelled to find my passion. I always yearned to discover something I love doing and have found it. This stuff is the best ... even on slow sales days.

This is what I'm doing.

I don't want to hear other people's opinions. Most people I know offline aren't supportive of anything on the internet because it's all a scam, don't you know!

And the ones who are ok with the internet look down on the marketing.

I can't win.....but I think everyone will feel better when I can buy them something.