Why did you start working online?

Needing to make more money to pay medical bills...and keep my mind active.

Wasn't sure myself, so I just figured I'de put it under off topic. I understand what you mean about trying to keep your mind active & I think I've given up on making a million 2.

I wanted to be my own boss. Aw and travel my friend, travel!

I had come across too many bosses that had zero respect for their employees so I chose to be an employer and make a difference

Freedom, Freedom, Freedom.

I now travel with a laptop earning good money as i go.

I left a great job to try my luck and so far so good.

You all need to try it once, its exhilarating.

no office politics, stupid bosses as you are your own boss.

Cheers

G

I have Done so many things in life...but I can honestly say I LOVE working on line...Internet maeketing and the WF. I would pay for the privilege. I would do this if there was no hope of income (which for a long time was true).

What a great opportunity to make a difference in the the lives of so many.
There's nothing else in the world I would rather do!

To Your Success
Terrance

I wanted to be able to be home with my son, instead of working outside my home all the time.

I always loved computers and when I discovered you could really make money online I was hooked. Really didn't believe it until I received my first check. That was 15 years ago, been doing it full time ever since

Couldn't stand working for someone else.

That and a ton more likes reasons.

Lack of hours, lack of pay, and so on and so forth

Extra income to pay off debt with the plan of building a business that I can retire from working for others early and do this full time!

I saw it as a awesome way to make extra income without picking up a part time job.

I needed to be at home with my kids. All but the youngest are past needing me around now and even she's reaching the stage where she's finding her feet in the world and gaining a lot more independence, but I can't imagine going out to work for someone else after all this time.

I started because i hate to work under somone who gets all my success.....

bcuz of busy studying, and I need make money to pay for fee and expense ) at first I worked as a freelance copywriter, then everything seemed to be good.
it seems that I was born to be an online marketer lol, just a joke!

I've always known that I won't be working for someone else ever, and my motivation was to be able to travel the world and windsurf wherever I want, as long as I won't.
Been doing it for couple of years now and I can't complain from the lifestyle. What I know for sure is that whatever happens I'll always be an entrepreneur, be it online or offline.

Svetln

I always wanted to create a second income to supplement my daytime job.I've always been searching and searching on what to do but then i discovered the internet and that small black box.Working online makes it so much easy to generate that second income for me.

Number one reason is I enjoy it more than any other work. If I didn't enjoy it I'd do something else.

The collateral benefits such as running my own company, the lucrative income and work-anywhere sweeten the pot.

I started online when I was 11 years old - and IMMEDIATELY fell in love with it.

There's just something about it that I love.

I think one of the key things is that it really forces you to grow as a person, learn more, improve and better yourself every day. I look at it, not just from a financial point of view, but also from a self improvement perspective :-)

I started because of freedom. My dreams are sailing around the word and working from sailing boat

I failed at an offline venture when I was 18 the first thing I did after filing for bankruptcy is to google "how to make money on the internet"

Sounds like freedom to work from home is the #1 reason. Not there yet but would love to be one day

As they say necessity is the mother of invention. It was a attractive way
to work from home in a time when jobs were hard to come by post-911.
Now I'm spoiled and it's hard to do otherwise. The freedom and convenience
is addictive.

-Ray Edwards

I agree. Necessity will definitely make you work harder at something. The freedom is also addictive and when you love what you do, 50-60 hours a week isn't so bad

I started affiliate marketing because I couldn't hold a job due to a mild traumatic brain injury from hockey. This led to crippling social anxiety and horrible depression years back so I decided to do anything possible to make money from home. After being scammed about 1000 times from shitty e-books I stumbled upon affiliate marketing forums like Affplaybook and StackThatMoney.. While I learned the basics here, those 2 forums really opened my eyes to real ballers of affiliate marketing.

Yeah. I'm so glad I joined the forum and started learning the techniques that actually work 2

I started working online because it makes me feel like I am enjoying my liberty
I hate to see myself not riding the hype of online business, much more if you're friends are telling you success stories..

It is a different track where you can work & earn money by your skill & also freely & some time getting a job is very difficult in physically also difficult in internet but if you are skilled & your lick supported you then you can earn more from your normal job.

I think the freedom to work when you want and where you want and ultimately have control of your income. In a "normal" job you have a set salary with the chance of getting raises every so often. Online if you put in enough work and are willing to not make much initially then your chances of making more are far greater than most opportunities you will get in life. Most online models are completely scalable.

Most amazing benefit of working online:

Ability to generate passive income streams easily. All you need is that one right biz and there is no looking back


Started for fun 8 years back, currently employing 25+ people, who work from office and i still work from home, and do all work tracking from home and depend on hierarchy to get all work done.. there is nothing better than this

Who does not want to be the boss!

Unfortunately back when I started finding good instruction was horrible. If all the gurus were really worth the huge prices they charged then the fail rate would not be what it is.

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I have been working online for a long time. Even I have leave my official job to start work online. Finally I started worked here to earn a handsome amount of money. Of course I have been earning the amount also.

I am sure the consensus will be to make more money!

My reason came from not wanting to depend solely on my folks for everything, and also that fact that I was doing something gave me self esteem.

Yeah. I can understand wanting to make more money & being your own boss. This is the best job I've ever had

It's all about financial and time freedom to me.

Since last 6 years i am doing online business because of the following reasons?

No time limitations
No Area Restrictions
No fear of boss
No JOB (Jail of boss)
Earnings what i want

Alot more.....

Back in 97 i saw a HUGE potential regarding the adult market and i wasn't wrong...

Yeah. That will probably always be around. Did you branch out to other things after that?

I blame my "need" to work online on Timothy Ferriss' 4 Hour Workweek book. Since reading that book a few years ago I visited a lot of Europe ... so I consider myself an experienced traveler, but still a newbie online marketer ... got to work on that last part

I've been working online for over 12 years now, I started in Adult, but got into everything at one point. Now I do both from home, I love working from home...

Beacuse I wanted to work from home and earn some good money so I can live my life better.

To travel and get more dates.

21 countries and 0 dates later, it's gone pretty much as expected.

The main reason I started to work online is "I want to be my own boss"

To increase my audience beyond the print advertising I was doing.

Cos lols thats why

I started working when my children were born because it allows me flexibility to spent with them and it's exciting helping other people make positive changes in their life.

I just didnt want to work within other people's companies...and I didnt want to work in just one place the whole time

I started work here for a long time. My main intend is to earn a handsome amount of money. Beside this I have some more why I am here, such as I can do work any time, there is no time frame. I can do work from anywhere. Here there is no boss. So I started work here.

As far as I can remember I always thought about my own business. I'm coming with a background that have nothing to do with IM per se. Anyway, my own business was always my goal.

Why online related business? Probably because at that time and situation I thought it would be the easiest way to make money. Of course, I was terribly wrong in my assumptions. Online business or not, all business is tough.

One day when I was at my job, my boss (owner of the company) told me this:

"I'm doing my money by using your blood..."

From that point on we were on warpath.

Sure, I was underpaid and used like old bit***. I had no problem with that, I was willing to work very hard, many hours and at times to be ready on call. And I was the best what they got at the time. However, I couldn't digest what he just told me. It wasn't actually abut the exact words because he told me true, he was actually using my blood to make his living (also at that point his words made my mind spin)... It was more about the way he told me this. It wasn't pleasant to say the least.

So, one day few weeks after he made that statement, I just quit. I just left workplace in the middle of the biggest rush and told him to f*** off. After two weeks or so they called me to visit them so we can have a talk. I went there, negotiated better rate and in a few days was back in the work. However, after one month the same boss started to act just like before, in general by showing me a lot of disrespect. So, I did it again. I quit second time. This time it was the last time.

In the mean time I was looking for other ways to make monies so IM happened to be that way. I told myself that will never ever take this kind of abuse again so the only way to stay away was to become completly independent. And that's the story

According to me, Online is the best way where you can earn more money without any physical activity. It is the new tradition of the marketing where you can make your career in a very effective manner. In another word, I can say that it is the true freedom what you want.

I wanted to support my expensive and time consuming hobbies that no boss in no office would endure...so, I became my own boss and now have a few people working in my office.

Hey. I do blogging in online because it's my passion so that i work with it. check out this post to know about benefit of blogging in online work

The 10 biggest benefits of blogging

Offering my services and values to the largest market in the globe.

Cool. I would love to be my own boss as well & not having to go anywhere early in the morning would be awesome. It's pretty cool that you get to network with people all over the world & can make a living from what you are truly interested in