What's the downside to working online?

[Bodhitree]

Hi everyone, we hear a lot about the potential of the Internet and online business - what do feel are the 'downsides' to working online/on the net???

[TimS]

1. Being asked to help people move during the week when everyone else is "working"

2. Weight Gain (I speak from experience)

3. People asking you when you are going to get a real job

Those should get it started

[steveblum]

Staying focused and fending off procrastination.

[DogScout]

being home all day. Lol.

[nicholasb]

sleeping till late in the afternoon causes me to miss mcdonalds breakfast

[CurtisN]

Having absolutely zero life. (definitely from personal experience )

[RebeccaL]

Having the days just fly by - not enough time in the day.

[killercopy]

No secretaries...

[samstephens]

Originally Posted by TimS

1. Being asked to help people move during the week when everyone else is "working"

2. Weight Gain (I speak from experience)

3. People asking you when you are going to get a real job

Those should get it started

Amen to all of those!

I've got squishy bits where there never used to be squishy bits. Time to renew the gym membership, I guess!

cheers
Sam

[KatyaSenina]

The workload can sometimes be overwhelming, especially when you're starting out.

[Michael Oksa]

It's really hard to remember what day of the week it is when you don't have to work M-F.

You don't have a boss. That's not a downside for me, but it is for a lot of people. They THINK they don't want to work for someone else, only to realize they need someone to tell them what to do. Sad, but true.

All the best,
Michael

[kendrickyi]

- most deffie procrastination.
- lack of face-to-face interaction with real humans (and not bots)
- not being able to show sympathy for your frends who have to wake up before sunrise to catch the bus/train to work
- boredom (c'mon, you cant be working the whole day, but when you choosenot to work, your friends are at work so yu have no one to chill with but yourself)
- you may never know how it feels to have a boss
- if you live in a house which is stuffy, you have to work in that hot environment instead of the air conditioned environment in an office.
- youre always at home. (sometimes i wish i could go out, but i have no one to go out with because my friends are either at school or work)
- unless you choose to rent an office, you become a prisoner to your own home. if you have an office, you become a prisoner in that office.
- staring at the screen the whole day doesnt really develop your inter-personal skills. you may end up becoming an introvert in real life when you do get a chance to chill with your friends.
- you may never understand the meaning of "i'm broke" or "i'm in debt"
- be sure you take a break from work or your eyesight will deteriorate

[Mike Murphy]

1) Not as much contact with the outside world....

2) Monitor face

[nicholasb]

Originally Posted by CurtisN

Having absolutely zero life. (definitely from personal experience )

start going to business convetions, networking opportunities and meet up groups

[TimS]

Originally Posted by samstephens

I've got squishy bits where there never used to be squishy bits. Time to renew the gym membership, I guess!

Actually, the gym just hit my credit card again this month... I thought I just needed to join, I didn't know that I actually had to visit!

It's my monthly contribution to the local economy

[CurtisN]

Originally Posted by nicholasb

start going to business convetions, networking opportunities and meet up groups

Do you know what I meant by "having a life"? lol...

[KatyaSenina]

Originally Posted by kendrickyi

- most deffie procrastination.
- lack of face-to-face interaction with real humans (and not bots)
- not being able to show sympathy for your frends who have to wake up before sunrise to catch the bus/train to work
- boredom (c'mon, you cant be working the whole day, but when you choosenot to work, your friends are at work so yu have no one to chill with but yourself)
- you may never know how it feels to have a boss
- if you live in a house which is stuffy, you have to work in that hot environment instead of the air conditioned environment in an office.
- youre always at home. (sometimes i wish i could go out, but i have no one to go out with because my friends are either at school or work)
- unless you choose to rent an office, you become a prisoner to your own home. if you have an office, you become a prisoner in that office.
- staring at the screen the whole day doesnt really develop your inter-personal skills. you may end up becoming an introvert in real life when you do get a chance to chill with your friends.
- you may never understand the meaning of "i'm broke" or "i'm in debt"
- be sure you take a break from work or your eyesight will deteriorate

THANK GOD!

There's a downside ???? Wow, sure did not know that ...

No problems here...

James

[kendrickyi]

@KatyaSenina
^_^ LOL

[Mukul Verma]

Tim has 3 good points!!! People assume you are free to do anything all the time

- Not separating your personal and work life because you enjoy online work

- You have to make your schedule and follow it (it is easy to listen to someone else and complain)

- You must be discipline or you will waste a lot of time

- The Failure rate is a lot higher and you have to work 10 times hard to get good results at first

[KatyaSenina]

Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet

There's a downside ???? Wow, sure did not know that ...

No problems here...

James

haha exactly... how ungrateful must someone be to find a real downside to something so cool as IM?

Originally Posted by KatyaSenina

haha exactly... how ungrateful must someone be to find a real downside to something so cool as IM?

Yep .. I do what I want and when I want to do it .. Where is the downside to that... No boss, no taking orders, no making someone else rich, no driving to work, and the list goes on and on...

I see no downside...

James

[Kevin_Hutto]

The downside for me is that most of my old buddies are tied to jobs and cant just decide to go to vegas on a whim -- or fly out to monterey to play some golf -- or whatever.... Most of them have to plan out there fun far in advance. The reason that is a bummer for me is that I have known these guys for 20 years and love hanging and doing trips, but they cant most of the time. It helps you understand why guys like MC Hammer(back in the day) just put their "posse" on the payroll.... So they will have someone to play with!

[JasonP]

Having to explain to people that none of my websites are "Adult" websites when I tell them "I make my living on the internet"

[Lindsay Brynn]

I have people tell me they are jealous a lot... when I also tell them that pretty much anyone can make it work with hard work.

Also people assume that I don't work as hard as I do. I'm very hard working, I just like what I do so it doesn't really feel like work. At least not in the same way that my previous jobs have felt.

[808glass]

I Wish I knew!

[drwhogoesthere]

Originally Posted by TimS

1. Being asked to help people move during the week when everyone else is "working"

2. Weight Gain (I speak from experience)

3. People asking you when you are going to get a real job

Those should get it started

I have to agree with the weight gain. I have seen the weight go one very quickly.

The other downside I see is looking at the computer all day. I get sick of looking at the screen.

[MWick]

Getting Fat, Not much of a social environment, easily get distressed, instability of income if you are depending on others.

[Troy_Phillips]

Having to get up at least by lunch

[Daniel-H]

Originally Posted by KatyaSenina

haha exactly... how ungrateful must someone be to find a real downside to something so cool as IM?

Exactly!
We do this because of the alternitive.... A BOSS!

[warriortx]

Not enough time in the day

[GeorgR.]

If there is a downside its maybe the fact that you cannot be certain about future sales, and you are dependent on external factors like hosters, google, etc..etc..

But in a conventional job...nothing is certain there either.

Aside from that..i cant really see any downside. I was just out there again and see all those cars with people going to work at 6:00am..probably some crappy job working for SOMEONE ELSE. Shiver...

[sbp8610]

The upsides definitely outweight the downsides...

....but my biggest downside would have to be the lack of getting outside. I have friends I go hang out with at least once a week and stuff like that, but other than that I'm home a lot.

If it wasn't for going to the gym to lift everyday I wouldn't socialize with people near as much... except for the weekends.

But I guess people in normal jobs only get out on weekends too, so it's mostly just that you feel like your alone all week since you work at home.

[Pat Jackson]

Originally Posted by Elijack

I think there can still be time for fun! Even though you lack some of the time that should be spent in the outside or "real" world, you can still be able to manage your personal life by putting the right schedules, meeting the deadlines early and dissecting projects to make it all easy. Also, outsourcing can always be the possibility as for the low cost too.

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[TelegramSam]

Powercuts.

[Mukul Verma]

Here is the downside....

I came back from my vacation to India over a week ago and I am still jet lagged, I got no structure to work day or night since I work IM. I woke up at 2 AM this morning and been up since, my hours are soo not set.

Mukul