Giving Up the Day Job

would love to be able to give up the day job one day. Slowly chipping away at it, each month gets me closer......

Congrats on the next step. You will now most likely have much more freedom than the typical 9-5. Just remember to treat your online business when working from home as your at the office. If you do this your success will be greatly increased.

Giving up my job is my last resort in case i will do full time Internet Marketer. But right now, i am enjoying and earning (some) with both my work and as part time internet marketer. I still have a lot of things to do.

Good to see I'm not alone!

2 months from the time I started back at it again. About 4 years ago I had come across IM throuhg Wealthy Affiliate. Learned some stuff and was making decent money. Unfortunately, my personal life took me away form growing my business.

At the beginning of the year I came back into the community with my eyes open ready to learn everything again and about a month ago I quit my "real" job..

On schedule to make over $50k this year which is almost double what I was doing at the 2am-9,10,11,12 job I had. Talk about crappy hours, not knowing when your going to get off is the real killer.

Love making my own schedule!!

Mike

I left my job when I started exceeding double my pay cheque from my employer.

Do not jump offline and cross your fingers hoping you will make money.

Educate the brain! Test, try and fail!

Without failure you will not succeed.

-Owen

Some interesting points guys, thanks.

I think that getting to the level of generating even $200 a week helps you tolerate a day job you don't like with a boss you like even less!

I can see that being methodical and having self-discipline is a must.

Cosmit, $15,000/month may not be much? Man, just 10% of that monthly would shine a bright light at the end of the tunnel for me. Good for you man.

I still havent replaced my current income. I actually enjoy my job and make really good money but I like the challenge of the "wild west" (IM) and making $100-200 a month some good booze money =)

2500 a month is ok with me, and i am not even close yet, but i have been doing IM for 4 months, i still have hope some day i will quit the day job

Took me about three months to complete a project and still earn daily income from it. Those three months took a lot of time and dedication to get it complete. Writing a plan and a "TO-DO" bullet point list helped me heaps!

Do you have a wife and kids? How about working on your site every night after dinner, until you go to bed? It could be automatic. No matter which aspect in life, the more you put into it, the more you get out of it.

I am 43 years old and never punched a time clock. I have been online for over 12 years. Although it is unimportant what I make .. I have made enough online consistently for most to quit their day job.

Internet marketing was something that just came easy to me. Admittedly I had some great coaches and still am not beyond listening to those that know what they are talking about.

IM was always just another money stream as I own some off line stuff also. At least until this week.

I woke up about 4 months ago and old injuries came back to haunt me. I had no feeling in my left side. Walking over 10 ft at a time just wasn't happening. Typing for over 5 minutes had my left hand swelled to the point of not working anymore for hours.

Finally(hopefully) I am back to my old self enough to work online again full time. The off line stuff requires more physical attention than what looks like I will ever be able to perform again.

I started again yesterday online and made enough money in a couple of hours to pay for a reseller and dedicated server ( for a couple of months) that was about to get suspended.

See huge need to get a residual base going and some set and forgets as doing website promotion and traffic generation for others is lucrative but ... when you stop working it doesn't take long for the money to quit coming into the PP.

I have a lot of resources available to me as I always reinvested pretty heavily back into the online business and since I made a business out of promotion and generation ... should not have a problem getting traffic to some affiliate offers while I set up some membership type sites.

I also give up my day jobs and now I open my own business with my friend. So I have flexable work time. Though I am just beginning, I feel very comfortable, it is okay. If I have time, I also find a part time job.

Mixalis,

I was pretty much like you, for about a year and a half.

Then I lost my job, had to sell my car and computer and things were looking pretty bad.

I guess what happened was, my back was against the proverbial wall.

You can do a lot more than you think you can when you HAVE TO.

So in a two month period of time I went from $100 a week to full time income.

Now I make a full time living online, but never forget to treat it as a biz, and not a hobby.

And I NEVER forget how it SUCKED answering to some idiot or idiots who were not a tenth as intelligent, good-looking, funny or humble as myself when I had a J.O.B. (Just Over Broke).



Patrick

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I think giving up the day job isnt that easy because you need to have a solid plan or system in place that gives you good recurring income on autopilot!

Don't give up the day job till you 100% (or at least 90%) fix with IM industry as confident internet marketer.

Took me a few years to make more money than my day job and even then I didn't really quite until I was earning that same amount for at least a year or so. Sustainable income is the key here.

This is my first post too, and i guess there is no way to look back. Just keep going! Good luck!

I think it is great if you can regard your day job as some form of security whist you get started, I come across so many who think they will sack the boss in two months, not going to happen.

Just keep studying and applying what you learn and you will get their in the end, just a tip for you as I got stuck with this, dont spread yourself to thin, be consistent with your promotional activities no matter what.

Good luck

Funny this post should show up - my new blog (I only launched it on Monday) is all about my ultimate aim, which is to quit my job!

I echo the sentiments of others when it comes to being conservative in quitting your job. You're only going to leave employment once, so make sure you get it right, and don't take unnecessary risks.

Did it a few years ago. In my case, I had some good customers that I felt I could depend on. I also had some side jobs that I sometimes worked that were offline, so with multiple streams of income it was pretty safe to quite the day job.

yes.. info over load is what every newbie will go tru.

why?
because we naturally want to know everything and do everything or we want to know everything so we think we can make the right or best decision and go with it.

BUT in the process of going tru this huge pool of info out there not to mention junks that hinder you, some people just lose steam and give up or just giving their 2nd best in this IM.

Thus nv getting much results.

you would want to get just a rough idea of everything enough to make a decision and once u made that decision go ALL OUT to master it.

No amount of preparation can give u success..

its the experience which u have to make that 1st step.

[ you can read up all on how to swim but if you nv start jumping in the pool you will nv be good at it. but of cos jump near the side for guidelines. ]

That is my dream to quit my job and make internet money full time, hehe

I've been full time since the tech bubble burst. I didn't quit to do this. I did this to be able to continue to work doing what I like to do. Many of the jobs that were available were no longer available.

What exactly is a non-techie webmaster? Webmasters, by definition, are techie.

sbucciarel,

Sorry, I can see the confusion I caused. What I meant to say was non-technical people, not webmasters or web developers. Basically anyone without such professional capability whos's managed to master IM (website, SEO, PPC etc) to the level that they could earn a full-time income.

As others have already stated.

Have a plan and stick at it.
Set aside time as like its a job you HAVE to go to. If you allow yourself to be pulled from side to side, you will never make it.

Be strict with your time management, turn off the emails, forget the forums for certain times of the day. Allow yourself "play time" to go read in the forums.

Cut your teeth on some work, become a freelancer if you have to and have no money to invest. Then as you make money, even $50, invest right back into your business, do not spend on luxuries at home or Internet Marketing products promising you the world for your $27 investment.

If you invest every cent you make on your business productivity and outsource what you are weak at and what takes all your time (repeat tasks) you will soon build your empire.

Focus on:

Quality
Traffic (learn this skill as soon as you can)
Follow up
Over delivery
Keeping Promises
Remember your customers are your customers
Ask for referrals
Ask for testimonials
Learn from Mistakes
Help Others if and when you can
Repeat what works
Ditch what does not
Keep a swipe file of triggers that make you almost purchase (remember what we said earlier up this post DONT buy stuff you dont need!)

Never Give up on your Dreams

Work, work, work and more work)) If you take it seriously as a job, most of WSO programs here in WF can help you quit your job. but the thing is people are allways searching for that "new push - a button money generating thing"...the reality is that you need to stick to one program or system of work and repeat it constatly Hope this helps.

wish you all the best!