Can You Really Make Money Online?
Posted 2nd July 2009 at 06:20 AM by maggytyger
We all need to make money. We need to eat, to stay in our house and to stay fed. Those who don't have to work for a living have been lucky for a little while, but chances are good that sooner or later the people who think they can make money without putting in a certain amount of effort will end up begging on the street at some point or another in their lives. The same is true with making money online: the internet is saturated with claims by unknown businesspeople that you—yes, YOU can make tons of money online without doing so much as composing an email. Having been scouring online jobs for the last several years, let me be candid: they're lying to you, and you're suckers for believing that you can make any sort of money without working for it. Please don't be one of those suckers. If you are, at least don't tell us about it—or even worse, broadcast it to the world.
Once you've gotten over the get-rich-quick phase and have moved onto something more realistic, like online writing, you'll find that the work can be very rewarding. You have to spend at least as much time looking for work as you are working, but usually that's part of the fun. There are some very supportive networks out there of people just like you who are either unable to work in the conventional workforce or, if you're anything like me, incompatible with the prospect of having someone less intelligent than you telling you what to do. But do keep in mind that online moneymaking—freelancing, eBay auctioning, ad revenue creation, etc.—will take a lot of time at first and, as such, isn't necessarily for everyone.
Some folks just aren't independent enough and need constant supervision. Some folks need more consistency in knowing that their money will arrive at a fixed given time every week. To those of you for whom this applies, not to worry: there are sites and services that set up agreements with home workers to do a certain amount of articles or programs per week and are paid accordingly. It just depends on the arrangements reached between the contractor and the company for a given project or period of time. There are also arrangements wherein a specific company might be looking for a virtual assistant or a long-term distance employee, during which all of the conventional payment rules would apply. You have to look a little harder for those opportunities though. Good luck!
Once you've gotten over the get-rich-quick phase and have moved onto something more realistic, like online writing, you'll find that the work can be very rewarding. You have to spend at least as much time looking for work as you are working, but usually that's part of the fun. There are some very supportive networks out there of people just like you who are either unable to work in the conventional workforce or, if you're anything like me, incompatible with the prospect of having someone less intelligent than you telling you what to do. But do keep in mind that online moneymaking—freelancing, eBay auctioning, ad revenue creation, etc.—will take a lot of time at first and, as such, isn't necessarily for everyone.
Some folks just aren't independent enough and need constant supervision. Some folks need more consistency in knowing that their money will arrive at a fixed given time every week. To those of you for whom this applies, not to worry: there are sites and services that set up agreements with home workers to do a certain amount of articles or programs per week and are paid accordingly. It just depends on the arrangements reached between the contractor and the company for a given project or period of time. There are also arrangements wherein a specific company might be looking for a virtual assistant or a long-term distance employee, during which all of the conventional payment rules would apply. You have to look a little harder for those opportunities though. Good luck!
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