Who here is totally KILLING it online--to the point of...

Ooh, have you graduated already? Congratulations on that, too: I remember exchanging private messages with you here when you'd just started at college?!

Yes - it was for me, also. I did a purely academic, non-vocational subject. I kind of got to a point at which I really didn't enjoy discussing it with fellow-students, to be honest.

Rightly, for the most part, I think.

You make your own luck to some extent.

From my experience, there was some luck in it, in the sense that when I had my "breakthrough" and had "got everything right" (more or less anyway, and certainly by comparison with how I'd screwed up before that!), it was lucky for me that it all came together in that I'd finally "taken some good advice" rather than continuing to be led astray. That could have "not worked out for me either", and I'd have had to re-try all over again.

I think one of the problems with a lot of internet marketing adventures (and maybe with affiliate marketing in particular) is that when you've done something wrong, that has prevented you from earning anything, it can be really difficult to find out what you've done wrong, and which part(s) you need to go back and change. And I was lucky in that - with hindsight - I probably changed the right things, at that point, without really understanding why.

Agreed ... (and perhaps especially in this kind of job climate?). Well done - you've deserved it, clearly!

(It was particularly lucky for me that it worked out relatively quickly, because as it turned out my "fallback career" was one that was no longer available to me by the time I graduated, because by then I'd become slightly disabled in a way which would completely have prevented my doing it anyway.)

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