Are You A Teen Living At Home Involved In IM?

Hey,

I'm 19 if that counts?

Still only just a teenager

- James.

Most parents in the United States are taught to look at their children as an economic liability. Since you are in business for yourself, you obviously don't view life that way, even though many of your friend probably do.

Do you find that there are differences between you and your friends in high school in terms of what you value?

Currently living at home, almost out of school two years now. I'd love to be free to live with my girl and move her here from Texas. But its been hard, since I havn't been able to make the money we'd need.

19 years old, living in a basement of my parents. Super-success, haha.

Hey,

I am 18 and a senior in highschool

I started when i was 17 though

I agree with Christian, I have the same goal to never have a boss.

I'm 19, and I've been researching, studying, and learning IM for quite some time now. I will make it big online or at least I will have a very stable income in the near future. I already have that mentality locked into my head. Failure is not an option for me. If something doesn't work, I'll learn how to make it work or find something better. I have a plan set out. Yes, doubts have crossed my mind in the past, from family and friends and myself...however, I washed away and now ignore those doubts. I smile when someone doubts me, because they will not change my mind. I fully believe that I am completely 100% destined to make it happen in IM.

The traditional way of life is what sparked my fire. I didn't and don't want to live like everyone else, as in...getting a good degree, getting a decent job and living average. So many people talk about struggling through life, and the more people that talk about it, the more it sparks my fire and the more it pushes me towards my envisioning of success.

As far as my relationships with my friends go, I prefer not to go into detail about IM with them. Most just call it a scam or not worth it, because they haven't done research and have no idea how profitable it really is when you look into it. I do know that I will be making more money with IM then any of my friends average, corporate jobs they will get.

Well...I'm not a kid but my daughter is. She just turned 14 and has recently started freelancing link building. She bids her own jobs off of freelancing sites.

I look over her shoulder and kind of chaperone her decisions and guide her through the process.

She's got quite an impressive following in MySpace which I bribed her one day about 2 weeks ago to throw up a CPA offer on Raw Minerials. Work pretty good for her. She even setup a campaign using classified ads (CL alternative).

I'm now working on her attention span. :confused:

Oh...her motivation...a Dodge Ram. I guess she has 2 years to earn it.

I guess I should let her start an account here.

Was your choice to work for yourself at this young age influenced positively or negatively by family?

Could you ever see yourself working from home with your family?

Charles

My family wants me to go through the traditional way of life, getting a great degree to get a great job. Mostly because that's what they did and that's what everyone else does nowadays. They don't see the same potential in IM as I do. They don't think it's a "real" j.o.b.

I could see myself working at home, but not for long. Too many distractions. I would need my own place to focus more and gain motivation.

I have never enjoyed having a job, EVER! My parents have always talked about how I should have one and be a successful person.

I can't see myself working from home with my parents, maybe my wife and kids later on, but not as it is now.

Does operating your own business change your perspective on high school?

Does it change your perspective on college?

Does it change your perspective on graduate school?

Charles

Everyone thought I was crazy in high school trying to do this, and I'm not in college. But being my own man with my own business has been my goal for many years now. IT makes me a bit more open and mature than most others I know my age.

I'm a college student, and I swear that every class I go to...I ask myself, "why am I here? I don't need these skills." All I think about in classes is that I should be working on my biz online. Even if I were to get a degree in college, I'd be making chump-change to what I could be making online.

Yeah it did change my perspective. With so many people going to college and graduate school and earning a degree, I have found that a lot of them are either struggling to find work, or having to settle for less.

Not that I do not value education, but I would rather educate myself in a field that I can teach myself and not have to spend a fortune on only to get trained into thinking like most of the people being hurt by the economy.

The knock against your generation from older generations is that there is a lack of ambition and motivation, in general.

1) Do you think that is true in general?

2) Are you different since you are in business for yourself?

3) Are you de-motivated in any way by the lifestyle of most Americans (9 to 5 job, house, car, kids, etc.)?

4) Who do you look to outside of IM as a role model?

Do you have role models in IM?

Are those role models based on their business success only or is there anything else that you see in them that you admire?

I a 21, and in college. Though I am not a teen or living at home, I still very much relate to all of these guys situation.

Now days I go to class just to learn for the joy of learning. I take classes that I am interested in. I am going to graduate just fine but I plan on working my butt of on IM between now and then, and even after I graduate so I can have some steady income. Then I can concentrate on finding a job that I only do for the joy of it, not for the money.

1. I do think it is true for the most part. Kids now a days are slack offs for the most part.

2. Not really, I have always been the more serious, goal oriented type of person

3. Hell YEAH! I don't think anyone here wants a 9-5 job, the rest sure. lol

4. I look up to my parents, and grandparents as role models.

1) Absolutely. It seems everyone going to school are in school, simply because they are "supposed to be." Students know that they will graduate college and get a normal job. No motivation really, just that's what the "norm" is.

2) Very different towards IM and my business. However, the same towards the traditional way of life and basic college education. I have motivation for learning about IM and a lot of it. I actually have a great time learning about it, because I know there is potential.

3) That 9-5 job is what I dislike the most. I DO NOT want to live the average life working the average 9-5 job for any part of my life, period. And I know that IM will take me away from it.

Role models in IM...Mike Dillard and Jonathan Budd. So motivational, so successful and have that positive or "do whatever it takes" mentality.

I'm not sure about role models, there are people I would love to talk to and learn from, but they are out of my price range to learn from .

All the guys I knew were real slackers, only wanting their bands or skateboarding take them where they want to be.

I'm not de-motivated, I'm just doing what I've always wanted to.

Interesting, responses, gentlemen. Thank you.

Should we think anything of the fact that there are no teenaged females who responded?

Are there high school/college girls involved in IM?

Very interesting responses so far....

Charles Harper