A Newcomer/Newbie with a dream... but needs help!

Dear Warriors,

In the past several years, my wife and I have spent a pretty penny on different programs, products, etc... all in the effort to find our niche in the IM world. However, all we ended up discovering is that there are soooo many choices, and soooo much info, that we became overwhelmed and realized that all we were doing was heading into the "buy the next best thing" mentality.

When we realized that our money was just being spent on this product, or that service, etc. we put a complete halt to our efforts and took some much needed time off in order to reflect. During this time we bought our first house (right before the market crash), and have been dealing with the after-effects of that.

We've finally reached a point in our lives where we are stable and secure, as we both have very stable 9-5ers. However, we are not satisfied working for "the man" as I'm sure many people aren't. Thus, we have begun to feel as though we would like to try out luck in the IM world again! But this time, we want to do it right!

And so, for us, we have reached a conclusion that we want to approach this thing as COMPLETE and UTTER newcomers/newbies to this great world of Internet Marketing! And what that means to us is that we don't want to go out spending money on "the next best thing" (the next best program or service that will guarantee our success)... Instead, we want to find a true legitimate MENTOR!

But, of course, the question came up... "Knowing there is just soooo many choices and soooo much info out there, where do we even begin to look?" And the first thing that popped into my head was The Warrior Forum! (And I tend to trust my instincts.) I've lurked here a few times in the past, but never became involved. So, now is the time for change!

Currently my wife and I bring in about $115k annually from our brick-n-mortar careers. My wife works in a hospital, and I work for a company that deals with construction/labor laws. We both have annual raises, and great benefits. So, as I said, we are both stable as it stands. However, my wife actually works night shifts from 7pm-7am (3-4days a week), while I work 8am-4pm (Mon.-Fri.) So our current schedules make it so that we are constantly working opposite hours from each other, which affords us only a few hours a day together. This is what we want to work hard in order to change!

Now, I realize everything I've written thus far is just a brief history, and doesn't get to the meat and potatoes of why I am posting here today, so let me dive right into my wife's and my dream.....

Right now, our dream is to, at the VERY minimum, supplement our income and get us both working AT HOME! This is our initial goal, and is what we have every intention on doing whatever it takes in order to achieve! Then, once that goal is reached, the sky will be the limit!

But this is where we HOPE the Warrior forum has been the right choice in coming to for help! As I said a second ago, we want to approach the IM world basically as COMPLETE newbies! And what I mean by this is that while both my wife and I DO have quite a bit of IM info/research under our belts, most of that research came about several years ago, and it didn't amount to much (mostly just spending/losing some money here and there). We're not upset by this, but we know we can do better!

So our goal by coming onto this forum is to approach the "IM gurus" out there (and we consider you a guru if you have achieved a self-sufficient lifestyle, where you work from home and can maintain that easily!), and to ask ANY one of you... to ask ALL of you... this question::

Where do we begin?

We are of the mindset that if need-be, we would rather find someone we could pay as our MENTOR, so that we could be taught the "ropes" of the trade from someone who has done it and is successful with it! I mean, in the beginning we were trying to do everything on our own, and we found that all we were doing was overwhelming ourselves with information and choices. Thus, now we want to find someone that can actually, in a sense, take us by the hand and teach us properly. We've always heard that its best to not reinvent the wheel, but to copy someone who has already done it and achieved success!

So that is our stance currently! This is our first post here in the warrior forum, and we hope we aren't given too much of a hard time for posting this. We understand that we aren't alone in what we seek; that there are plenty of others out there exactly like us... but we feel that just taking this initial step in letting the IM world know our desires, HOPEFULLY it manifests some responses that can lead us further into our journey!

Anyways, I will end here, and just say that... if YOU, personally, are someone that feels you can offer us a type of mentor-ship, or anything of that type of nature, we would LOVE to hear from you! Any further details would be worked out as we progress... so as it stands we're just throwing out a line and seeing what we catch (so to speak).

Please also note, that at this time we're not all that interested in hearing about "this product" or "this service" that will teach us the tricks of the trade, but that we are in search for REAL people that would actually be willing to work with us on a personal level of some sort!

Thank you ALL for your time! And much love to you all!
~G&T