Regardless of your online success, tell me why you'll always keep your job?

Your whole attitude is wrong. Making money online IS a job. Not a replacement for one. If you dont treat it as a full time employment your never going to do well.

Having a job and working for someone else is a way to provide for yourself and your family. You can do both. Online marketing is a job unless you are outsourcing and running your business like a owner. In the end having a solid plan that will help you retire in the next 5-10 years is what is important. The reason I think you might have so much animosity towards jobs is because its the 40-50 year plan which SUCKS. Working for someone else for decades is a horrible plan but if you work your job until you can replace your income online then that is a much better plan. Without money coming you will be completely dependent on someone else. So my suggestion for anybody reading this that has a job is to keep your job and sacrifice your TV, Facebook, You Tube, hanging out time to work on your online line business. Focus on a plan and work that plan daily. When your income exceeds your job by 2-3 times consistenly you can think about quitting. I would not suggest quitting until you have a year saved as a safety net. Also unless you have paid traffic or some other form of massive leverage in place down to a science I would not suggest quitting either.

The sensible thing to do would be to go out and get a job to pay for advertising. Set up a PPC campaign and drive targeted traffic to a free offer to build your list. Within 6 months of investing every week into this model you will have a sizable list and can begin to use your profits to reinvest.

Well, if you want gas money, food to eat and "everything else" maybe it's a good idea to get a job

Weird attitude... Online marketing is not that simple and blah blah, it's a marathon. But man... you can make a lot of money, just be patient and take it seriously.

It's all about doing what you love. I make a measly $500 a month in adsense (on average) and I honestly just don't work it much.. because I love my day job. I'm pretty confident I could make 6 figures a year online if I devoted full time hours to it, but.. I make good money on my job, love going to an office and hanging out with other people, conversing, socializing.. When I take a vacation week, I'm usually bored out of my mind by the end of the week.

My wife, on the other hand, makes much more online than I do.. but she enjoys blogging much more.

Working for someone else... or working for yourself.. is a big joke, if you don't enjoy it. Find what you love and make it work.

Some people really simply just love their job. Particularly people working in R&D or sometimes academia.

It depends what type of person you are really.

If you're a social butterfly, working from your home office will cripple you.

If you're a Internet marketing guru and also an introvert, you'll love working from your house.

So, what type of person are you?

The difference between making money online and working for somebody else is that in the online environment, you have to work a lot before the pieces of the puzzle fall together. But then, when you finally make your first sale, the feeling is priceless

For a lot of people, it also boils down to benefits.

Insurance costs a lot more than some people realize, and good companies usually provide a nice benefits package.

And when you have a family to take care of... that's important.

If you are lazy like me, you'll work harder for a time to find out what works online and what doesn't and to find out what you can do that requires less work to make it.

I make all of my income online and my total workload is about 2 hours a day, sometimes 3. I'm not rich (and I don't care to be, honestly), but I answer to nobody but my customers and I now live in a country outside the USA that is significantly cheaper.

I miss having a McDonald's Big Mac, but that's about it.

I would love to keep my job as I am more social and like to have a good life outside of online. I meet a lot of new people, make friends and enjoy which I could not do doing just IM. However I hire people to do my online stuff so I get much time for both. And I make a lot more through IM working a lot less then my regular job.

If by any chance you've been trying since December 2009, when you joined the forum, are not yet earning a living online, and need to earn a living, then I venture to suggest that you should get a job. Even assuming you'd make only around $30,000 a year from one.

(Or were you by any chance a student who's just graduated this summer, and therefore suddenly have a lot of time available for IM that you've never had before, and no pressing need to make a living quickly? That might be a little different ... I'm only guessing, but, as you can see, it's pretty difficult for anyone to try to "advise" you without knowing your circumstances.)

There are many people who actually like their jobs. I do. IM is a hobby for me. I don't see myself changing.

Plus many get benefits and retirement through their jobs as well as life insurance.

Actually, most people stick with their days jobs (well, maybe not people who come here) but the majority of people on this planet do.