Is working online worth quitting your regular job?

I'm only a 21 year old college senior, but I've balanced academics, an internship and internet marketing for the past 3 years. I would highly advise anyone to NOT leave their 9-5 job until they've had some kind of success with internet marketing, earning a fairly substantial amount of money.

If you have a good job, don't just quit it because you heard that it's possible to make a living online. Take up internet marketing WHILE YOU'RE WORKING YOUR CURRENT JOB, prove that you can be successful at it, and if you feel the timing is right, leave your 9-5. Working your current job and then working on internet marketing in your spare time will also help to give you the capital investments required to succeed, which is always a good thing.

Basically I choose to work online because I hated my job, and wanted to do what I wanted whenever I wanted to do it haha. Now, I work extremely hard, probably more than I did at my other job but I enjoy it and that's the huge difference. I quit a little over a year ago but I was already making decent money online so there wasn't a huge risk. Haven't looked back...

I like to see my clients reach two milestones before quitting their 9 to 5

A nest egg capable of handling 18 Months of actual living expenses and an online business that has consistently earned 25% more than the day job for at least one full quarter.

If you have a decent day job, it is not a good idea quitting it for Internet Marketing (IM) unless you have been able to generate consistent money with IM. However, if you do not like your job, and have decent IM skills, I think it is worth taking the risk. Also, as Tech19 says, you may end up doing more hard work while IMing when compared to your day job, but if you enjoy IM, you should take that risk. Another advantage is that you do not have a boss who is breathing down your neck all the time, so there is less pressure (although there is more work).

Don't quit your job until you earn the equivalent online... Working online gives freedom and that's what I like about it... Remember: you're probably worth twice or even 5 times your 9-5 job... Your boss or employer only pays a fraction of your real worth...

I would say most internet business is very gradual. It takes a while for your internet site to grow and for people to get to know you. Leave your day job when you are sure you can make enough online would be my two cents.

It is definitely worth it, but it does typically take a lot of time to replace a full time income. Getting away from scams is easy once you know how to spot them and know of some good IM people who sell good products. Being a part of this forum will allow you to review products before buying in to any hype that might be on a sales page. Just be aware that it doesn't happen in 1 day and it will take work but it can be far more lucrative than your standard job

I'll quit my 9-5 job when I earn significantly more money online.

Hey there,

That's a total open question that only you can decide on what answer you feel is right for you. It is true that only a percentage can make enough money to cover a fill time salary but it can be done. It really depends on your comitments, hopes and needs. I personally have never had a 9-5 and I could never do it, the thought is like prison to me and so I make it work as best I can. Other people can never give up the security of a salary for whatever reason so, if you are an entreprenuer then your spirit will guide you down that path anyway and no matter what is said here, only you can make that decision.

I would say however that the first thing you need to do is prove that you can make money lol. At least reach sufficient income to match your salary before diving in full time.

Good luck

I think it's not a good idea to quit the day job until you've made enough money in IM to actually move some money out of IM and make other investments (such as Real Estate) that ensure your bills get paid regardless. Then, consider quitting, especially if you don't like your job.

I know that gurus exist praticly in every niche and usually they are scam. So nothing new about that.
I worked for 3 years as a chef, even though I love cooking the enviroment wasn't for me. Got tired of being bossed around by incompetent people who knew less than I, or by chefs who treated people like s**t, working +10 every day and working my a** off just to get nearly a minimal wage.

I told myself if it's to work so hard than atleast I will do something that I like and that it's for me. I started looking around for a solution until I found IM. I currently doing what I love and don't take crap all day. When I think about it damn I was trading my hours of life and stressing all day long in return for a life of poverty. Even though I haven't done much money but I just started 4 months ago. I just have this belief that I will be rich so I know everything will work out

Baselining, baby .

Well it depends on what your current job is, how much you're earning on that job vs IM, the prospects of that job, whether you enjoy it, whether you can make time for IM on the side, etc.

For example, someone making $100/day may quite their McDonald's job but not their investment banking job (well, they may get no time for IM especially if they're working in IBD).

may be.....but i'd recommend to learn the basics of IM....its just like other businesses....but in a virtual world....As a freelancer....Um making decent money...but I still look forward to become a full time internet marketer

I don't really think swapping a bricks and mortar type job for an online work from home based job is using what is available to its fullest potential. I wouldnt really call internet marketing a job because you can make money pretty much on autopilot whereas with a job if you arent doing something you arent making any money. I think most of us would go for the autopilot option because then we can spend our time doing what we really want to do. You could check this site out to give you some starting points: get money

In my case, I started trying to build an online business at the beginning of my second year of university, hoping that by the time I graduated I wouldn't ever have to get a "regular" one.

Effortlessly ... I was trying to earn money, not to spend it, so that was never an issue for me at all. I started off not wanting to spend any money at all. And rapidly realised I'd need to buy a domain-name or two, which was ok. And then some hosting. And then an autoresponder subscription. But that was all I ever needed to spend, to start off.

But for others concerned about it, I'd strongly advise anyone to avoid like the plague anything which makes any sort of income claims at all, anything obviously hyped up, and anything which has words like "cash", "money", "income", "fast", "magic" in its title.

This little free guide produced by a Warrior is also brilliant, and thousands of people could have avoided being scammed if they'd simply downloaded and read it: How to Investigate Home Business Opportunities

Its hard work but do both until you can support yourself just online.

If done right, IM is more profitable, easier and offers more schedule flexibility than most jobs. Most people when they hear about "make money online" think it's a bad thing. In fact, you need much less investment in an online business than in a real one, don't need as much papers, don't need to be over 18, and the ROI is likely to be much higher.

work full-time and part-time online..when your online income surpass your ofline income, its time to make a decision. ooops at least you are earning five times oe than your 9-5 job and have at least 6 months of income stashed in your bank account as security. don't burn your bridges either..make sure there is a two way street and you can go back..

I had a great job in the computer industry and it was paying me well. But i didnt like the idea of waking up 6am every morning to drive through traffic to work. It was the best job i've ever had in my life... but i think everyone could use a bit of financial and time freedom.

Choosing between quitting a job and doing online marketing has always something to do with your preferences, knowledge and resources. As human, we are fond of exploring. Those people who sacrifice their regular job just to engage in online marketing maybe find themselves more productive online. But it takes a brave man to give up something big just to try something new.

it depends on your lifestyle your objectives your goals your knowledge your work ethic and your determination.

I will say one thing I've seen some near frauds that you wouldn't exactly call a fraud make a ton with marketing.

Remember internet marketing might refer to 1 thing (internet marketing) but marketing in general has a much wider opportunity and scope of context.

I quit my job like an idiot the first month I got into marketing. Don't ask how but it wound up becoming a very very good thing for me. I think because the whole 8 years I worked in retail I'd do nothing but obsess about sales, how to sell people, psychology, manipulation.. and it was just always apart of my blood I think.

So once I made the transition I felt this MASSIVE congruence in my life. A new meaning, and that meaning is what really helped me succeed the most. You NEED to love it otherwise quit now.

But anyway back to scams. I see hundreds of salesmen every week that are selling some type of shady service, over promising, over delivering, in the offline arena not online, and some of these guys are pulling in real nice bank. You could call what they do defrauding people, but you couldn't ever prove it in court due to how they operate, and considering all the legal protection they have in place.

But if you want my idea of a get rich quick scheme. Find a way to fool people, and sell them on a product that they can't really guage whether its effective. In a lot of home improvement industries you can sometimes see this. There's foundation repair companies, basement waterproofing, energy audits, all types of weird things where you can build fear on people to sell them for a huge profit. A lot of people would say this is a horrible thing. But 9 out of 10 of every company I see in certain well accepted industries is doing exactly this. Ok no I take that back maybe more like half of them is.

They just build so much value into a service, that they truely believe they're getting something incredible, when they're just getting something somewhat ok. And a lot of clients never even realize it. God I could talk about this forever. I know one company that is pulling in 300,000 grand a month minimum by lying to people. But they are so good at coming off trustworthy, have so much social proof, that almost noone knows they're dicks except other competitors in the industry like me. I see these guys selling jobs for almost triple what other companies are selling the same jobs for. They just don't care. They get complaints all the time and I still have no idea how they've survived this long and maintained trust online/offline. It boggles my mind.

All I know is money is value, and value is really nothing but a perception. If you want to quit your job, don't make money, make value. Convince people its value, sell the **** out of it to them, they'll by it and think its a high value product/service. And you'll be the only once to know you created money out of thin air.

Almost like that article I read on the BH forums about "bs your way to internet riches". Well guess what? You can do that in almost any aspect of life. Even when I was younger I use to get women this way. Just act like a cocky ******* full of social status and value. I didn't exactly believe that about myself all the time but as long as other women believed it, thats all that mattered. Same thing in sales/marketing. It doesn't always have to be true, people just need to think its that way.

(and please vets be easy on me I'm just trying to voice what I've seen in my own experiences in life)

In my opinion, it depends ONLY on each character's personality. There is people that likes to be lead by someone else, not everyone in the world want to own a business.
I see this everyday, between my teammates in my full-time job.

I would really like to be my own boss, and hopefully some day I will be able to do that with all the effort I am investing on my online business.
But well.. many people still like to have a solid and monthly salary to pay their bills, and they are happy with that life style, and there is nothing wrong with it.

I agree with what others have said here.

You should not quit your regular job, until you have some steady and solid income online.

Remember it took you years of "investment" with studies and school fees to get that job.
Why just throw it away?

Make use of it till the time is right to move on.

I would do anything to never have to go to work again. I'm working at it day by day. One year from now it's going to be happening

Thanks for this post.

I think it depends on how well you do in online business than your regular job.. If you think you're good enough to stand with your own feet then it will be a good choice to quit your job especially if it only makes you feel bored..

I can't say I'm a success since I'm not making a huge profit out of it...yet. I just recently quit my regular job (just 3 days ago!) to work from home fulltime. So far, so good that I can say. What I can tell you though is that my former mother-in-law has now opened her own diner, grocery store, and spa because of money she got from her "online businesses". And she's still at it.

i do hate my job right now, thinking of making a life online , going to watch this thread closely lol

I took a risk and stepped out on faith because I absolutely hated being locked down 9-16 hours per day with inmates and cut-throat COs and rank. It was an environment where if you blink you might lose your job over some BS. But I was already making good money freelancing and my extreme dislike for my job back then was enough to push me to make the sacrifices I needed to make so that I didn't have to work for anyone else again.

Anyone who has worked in a grimey, Haterade-filled environment like I'd endured for 5 years wouldn't think twice about chunking the deuce to a 6-2, 2-10, or 10-6. Sheer misery...Oh, I had my paper stacked for 1 year worth of living expenses before I bounced though...

I would say it is. I left my job almost 10 years ago and I've never looked back. I enjoy spending time with my son and just having the freedom and flexibility that comes with this territory.

You should wait for your online success starts matching your regular job or pay.

I would just map out the worst case scenarios, and how to attack it.

To me quitting a day job to do internet marketing full time is a no brainer, but it isn't for everyone. For starters how are you going to pay your bills until you start making money online?

Unless you've already got a good feel for the direction you're going and you have some money to invest then you could potentially quit your job. If you're still new to the market and haven't yet made any money, then that would be a very risky and scary decision. I quit my job and started doing IM full time, but I had a very narrow plan and I had already made some income...so my first month was already decent.

If you can make enough money online to support your lifestyle, then ABSOLUTELY! There is no better way to earn a living in my opinion.

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Working from home has its benefits, but be careful of falling into the trap thinking that its going to be all rainbows and colorful butterflies.
I can only speak for myself, but it can be very difficult to get stuff done when you are working for yourself, from home.

quitting t he day job is worth if on ecan make $ 5000 a month but the questionis how