Isn't Internet Marketing Just Another J.OB??

Sure it's a job. But it's not a J.O.B. I'm paying myself and my family directly, not working for someone else. My income potential is not limited by a glass ceiling. I can (and plan to) work inside, outside, while camping, boating, lying around on a hammock...I can work on the beach or on a plane. If I get up in the morning and feel like taking the horses out, I can do that instead. My schedule is mine. Nobody is there to tell me that I must get X amount accomplished between the hours of 8am and 5pm.

Ahhhh freedom...

I don't see this as a 'real' job. If I wasn't into IM, I would still spend a lot of time sitting behind my computer...feeling useless. This instead is productive and the money you can make in IM overtime is just beyond your wildest imagination. :p No real job can beat that.

LOL Yeah. You can easily spend 8-12 hours working on your stuff, from anywhere. and not even notice the time going by. You are not tied to any set schedule, and all the work you do directly benefits you.

It certainly beats sitting in an office, punching a clock, just to make other people richer.

Is it a job . . . or a way of life?

By that logic then any method of making money that requires work is a J.O.B.

I think it is a way of life, much like home schooling children. You have so much more opportunity to expand your interests and abilities than if you work for someone else. And you don't have to spend time spinning your wheels when others don't have their work done so that you can do your own.

On top of that, it is like playing--it's fun! I can't wait until May when I plan to go full time with this. Now, I just have to start making a bit more money so I can pay the bills, too.

Linda

You pretty much summed it up its freedom to do what you want when you want. Once your business gets established it takes less and less work to maintain it which is an added bonus. Plus who better a boss than yourself?

Employee:

Working for someone else, in their interest, for pay that allows them to turn a reasonable profit. Offers security, to a limited degree; Ie: $XX.XX dollars per hour.

If job is lost, experience gained is often only suited for the exact same position elsewhere.

Business Owner:

Gives people Jobs, has unlimited room for growth. Is dependent on a number of factors they can control and manipulate, however exposed to greater risk than a Job holder. Ie: No guaranteed income.

Experience is directly applicable in any number of fields, should future employment become necessary.

I'm of the belief that if you can build one successful business, you can do it again.

Both have pros and cons. Personally, I prefer having my fate in my own hands; rather than being a number on a payroll somewhere.

I just took a 2 hour nap and got paid to sleep thanks to IM. It's a hard job, but someone's got to it...

Yes IM is a job but it is far from normal in every sense of the word. I was basically given a choice between IM and the standard type of job that teenagers get..I chose IM and I haven't looked back since. With all of my activities in highschool I NEED the flexibility to work on my own schedule and not work if I have to.

IM gives me the freedom to keep my grades up AND make money + it gives me amazing business experience at a very early age.

I see it more as a business than a job. It is a job, but more like you are running a business.

I guess it all depends on your mentality . There are people out there who are quite happy to work for someone else and collect their week's wage. Fair play to them. They are happy at that. I could never do that. I don't see the point in it. Why not work for myself and make much more money

What sets IM apart is that it's YOUR job that you do YOUR way.

How many times have you gone to work, and your boss comes up and says "do this."

Can you say "that's stupid and I'm not doing it" back to him?

Nope! You have to do it his way. And when it doesn't work, he'll come up and say "That was stupid. Why did you do it?"

Can you say "you told me to do that, because you're an idiot" when he does that?

No! You have to make excuses for his own retarded idea. And in the end, if he got in enough trouble for it, he might still fire you.

One big difference - you call the shots, not your boss. And that is what makes it so appealing

It's self-employment, so even though it is a job, it's not the same as getting up in the morning to go to a 9 til 5 employed job.

It is School, Work and Freedom all rolled into one. That does not equate to a J.O.B.
those are things where other people tell you what you may/may not accomplish, when to do so and how much you will earn while you do it within their time frame.
Always learning, working on stuff and all on my own schedule.

And, yeah, all cubicles are pretty much the same (they come with an idiot in charge)

A

(ps. Lisa - is it paranoia if they really are after you??)

I have been self employed since 1990, I will live out of a shopping cart under a bridge before I work for anyone else. Full time with Internet Marketing since 2007, would never call what I do a JOB.

One of the things I like about IM is one of the things that irked me at one time. I had an online bookstore - IM to me. But one friend used to say to me: Are you working now, or are you still doing the books...? One other individual I met - a college lecture - had asked me what I did. I told her. About 4 minutes later she quizzed me more closely: Yes but what do you really do?

I liked that

It's a job by definition since whatever you do consistently for an income is a job. As of now I don't have a job since I haven't yet made any income for what I've been doing consistently....or kind of consistently.

But sure it's a job. And I think it's harder than one with a boss standing over you. It's easy to just report to work and get money for it. But it's really hard to put in lots of work while both not getting paid AND everyone you know thinks your nuts!!

With posts like that I wonder how anyone will ever follow my sig hahahahaha!!!

Just kidding. I'm here to just chat and get a feel for things for now.

No, it's not a job. It's an opportunity. You get back what you put in. Can't say the same thing for a "time clock".

I haven't worked for someone else since 1992. The worst day working for yourself is better than the best day working for someone else!

-Doug

With a job you trade time for money...with internet marketing, if you do it right you are not just trading time for money you are building a business that will continue to pay you for months and YEARS to come. If IM is a job, its the best job I ever had and has come with NONE of the rules I'd had to follow at my last job. Oh and the tax benefits are a whole lot greater than any taxed job income!

In IM, you can work for yourself instead of for someone else, yes, it's still work, but you get greater rewards in return than working as an employee.

DCB

JOB = Just Over Broke.
YOB = Your Own Boss.

So when people tell you to get a job, tell them they got it wrong. You will get a yob.

You can call IM a job if you do 70% of the works.
You can call IM how you want to call it

But for me IM is business... I do 10% of the work
and the rest are done by others called
"Virtual Employees".

Gama

To me a J.O.B = Wage Slavery

Sure, you get a wage but at the end of the day you are still just working for someone, doing their bidding and lining their pocket.

A J.O.B as most people think of it means that no matter how long and how hard you work you'll never be free.

After 40 years in the same J.O.B you can still get laid off and have no income. You still can't decide what to do with your time. You still can't make random decisions to do random things whenever you feel like it. You can't do all of the things that you really want to do with your life.

By starting down the track of working for yourself and developing more and more income streams you become more and more free. You work for yourself, do your own bidding and line your own pockets.

After 40 years of IM and working for yourself you can have such a varied and stable set of income streams that you can do just about anything you want with your time.

You can work when you want to because you get a kick out of it, not because your survival depends on it. You can lay out your days however you like, and you can do all of the things that you want to do with your life.

The key difference between working for yourself doing an IM job, and doing a J.O.B is freedom vs (wage) slavery.

I might say it's more of a profession for those who earn six-figure income, and a J.O.B. to those who are just starting out. :p

@ Jeff Mitchell

Hi Jeff,

I'm in a "real" job and will be getting into IM soon.

Here's why:

No commute (I spend 3 hours a day commuting at a cost of $7,000 per annum - that's about $10,000 per annum gross).

No offshoring of my job.

No p*ss-taking with "Hey Rich, can you do Saturday's shift? Bob's off ill.", invariably last thing on a Friday, and not ever a question, but a demand.

I get my holidays when I want them, not when they fit in with the company or my colleagues. And here's a bit of controversial stuff: in the UK, folks with kids are getting first refusal on the "nice" holiday dates!

I can adapt my IM strategy to catch new trends, etc. In the "real" world, that equates to retraining, which takes ages and costs a fortune.

IM is not ageist. I could do it until I'm 100, and not be pensioned/binned-off.


Richard

It's only a JOB if you make it one.

You can make it NOT be a JOB by implementing a continuity component into your online business, set it up once, let it run, get paid forever regardless if you're physically there to 'work' or not.

its only another job...if you try to do everything yourself

I'm new to this but I want it to be my new job. I work for myself at the moment but theres always staff issues, rent, rates stock to buy......big overheads, help!!!!!Thats a proper job. Bring on the IM

All depends how a person defines JOB really

Essentially, avoiding all the abbreviated jargon, most people in todays world will say a Job is doing something in exchange for money

So no matter how you slice it, where you do it, when you do it, or how many hours you put on it. If you do anything for money your doing a job, whether its for you, your mom, your dog, you pet lizard.

JOB has become like a swear word in the internet marketing community. A word used only for saying what you did do vs what you now do.

Honestly who gives a monkeys ass whether we define IM a job or not a job.

As long as you enjoy whatever you put your hand to do in this life, I think is what most people want.

Good question Jeff.

And, as we see throughout the thread, some pretty good answers, of course, all being subjective.

My opinion is it begins (and ends) with the INTENT. Some jobs are satisfying, some provide a social life, some are fun. But if a job is only about earning a living, or making money and you have to report or account to someone, then it could turn ugly fast.

There are so many ways to make money but the self employed way gives you greater opportunity.

And it is the OPPORTUNITY that makes IM so cool, so fun, so lucrative. ;

It is just hard to find jobs of any kind that gives you anywhere near the opportunity to do what you want, where and how you want to do it, at the TIME you want to do it.

For me, having the TIME is the most important part of it, making money is the easy part.

gjabixz

It is a job but its the best job I've ever had, less hours, more pay!

It is a J O B that leads you to financial freedom , to do the things you want , do whatever you want , and when you reach the big internet guru stage , you can buy whatever you want and not have to look at the price tag.


Cheers

Depending on how you look at it. From the beginning its more of a tedious work, in this case you are in business for yourself but it becomes more of less work and pleasure when you have mastered the art of internet marketing and profiting from it.

Cheers

John Benjamin

as much as i don't actually work tooo many hours a day, marketing is my life.

Once you're in you are ALWAYS thinking about it. One of the curses of working for yourself. There is no "vacation time".

An old rich guy once taught me when I was very young... "If all you've got to sell someone is your time, you've got a seriously limited inventory."

There is work, and then there is a job. A job might require work, but all work isn't a job. IM might be work, but it's not a job. Does Bill Gates and Donald Trump go to work or do they go to their jobs?

I agree, there's no other job that could just be worked on a few hours a week anywhere in the world like I.M. Of course it might take a couple of years to get set up. Once you do though, its so worth it. Killer money, and no boss telling you what to do. I couldn't imagine any other way to live.

j.o.b = just over broke but if you play the internet marketing thing well broke is far from where you will be
IM must be one the easiest ways to get rich if you are prepared and deteremined

Working your butt off like a robot to make someone else rich is never any fun. I honestly don't know how so many people in the world do it...

Being a self-sufficient entrepreneur is the ONLY way to live... been doing it for over two decades now and wouldn't trade it in for anything.

There are wrong ways to go about this though and it's not for everyone, to be sure, but that is a long topic for another discussion.

Now if I can only get the boss to quit firing me...

well I often take time off to go to the gym/cinema/woods/cafe/mall during the day...I do not know of many jobs that allow me to do that.