I need to turn my life around

Before you enroll into University, ask yourself what you are really passionate about. There are so many students who drop out after their first year only to realize its not what they want to do as a career. Really think long and hard what your true calling is. If you do not know... volunteer, travel, work doing odd jobs, meet more like minded people... get to know who you are and what you want out of life. I would suggest that you give IM a try, but also find a job on the side that brings you bit of income. Good luck.

Note all things can be learnt, it is just a matter of determination

Thank you for all the great responses.

I have a year out to decide what I want to do. The 8 weeks when I will be able to dedicate the most time to trying to build from scratch.

During the year I will be working and putting the spare cash towards getting everything sorted.

If someone could point me in the right direction for where I could find a membership that has a cheap trial period for to me to promote that would be great.

Except for the tone of your message I agree with the spirit of it. Internet Marketing is not the easy road and it requires sacrifice, dedication and fortitude. See inevitably things will take longer than you expect. You will see more failures than successes. Eventually you enthusiasm will fade your passion will subside and the only thing that will pull you through will be your resolve. I tell my kids that you have to do the right thing

even if it's hard,
even if no one helps you and
even if your don't want to.

For you my friend, I suggest learning resolve. Learn to work for something great and you'll deserve something great. The funny thing about life is you might not get what you want, but you always get what you deserve.

You can choose to learn resolve by going to college and getting awesome grades and working your way though it on your own to pay your own bills.

or

You can learn resolve by putting all you energy and resources into Internet Marketing...
but mark my words either way you will only get what you deserve...there is no such thing as a free lunch.

What about the guy who studied Law for 3 years...

From my point of view, this is the best advice you got in the entire thread. That is, if you actually follow the directions.

Don't over complicate it. Just treat it like a real job until it starts to produce income to the point where you can focus on other things.

Pick a free method. Drive traffic to an offer. Dude just gave you the magic recipe. The only question is do you have enough gumption to take hold of it.

I'll address my thoughts about that in the next section.

This type of response makes me think you don't have what it takes. There are tons of products like what you just mentioned.

Nobody can just give you a general niche "blindly" without knowing your interests. Are you kidding me? And nobody is going to do your work for you!

Snap out of that or you're screwed.

I can literally predict your future because of that statement. In 7 weeks when you parents ask you what you're up to, you'll think, "Well, gee. Nobody ever recommended me a product to promote."

Good luck with that mentality!

I definitely disagree. I think back up plans are dumb. If you're going to make it, you've got to "burn the ships" so there's no return. Put yourself in a position where you must make it happen.

People quit jobs to do other things all the time. And drop out of college. The only deciding factor to whether or not you succeed is going to be if you practice the right habit every morning.

You need to create a ritual that involves doing one thing per day for several hours at a time to drive traffic to a website, and either collect the opt-in or pitch a product.

Think about it...

If you go get a job you're going to be focused on one of three tasks...

1. Getting new customers
2. Servicing the ones we got and keeping them happy
3. Stocking more products or services for them to buy

If you can do that for yourself, it'll be no time at all that you make money online.

The thing about marketing is most people want it to be perfect before they get started. That included me. But the truth is, is it'll never be perfect, even when you're good at it.

Ignore what people try to tell you when they sell you things. They can't prevent mistakes or errors. It's going to happen, bud. Best you start working through them...

'Cause they ain't NEVER going away!

Marketing is always a constant work in progress.

Drive traffic. Ask for the sale. Deliver product.

That's called money magic.

It takes a lot of us a LONG time to make CONSISTENT money online, but that's because most of us "dabble" and take tiny steps, not massive action, and stop doing what works.

I made money literally the first week I got online. In fact, every time I've promoted an offer (actually promoted it and not screwed around) I made money.

It's not because I'm some sort of genius. It's because I got in front of people who might be interested in buying the thing I was selling, and said, "Hey, you should buy this! And here's why..."

Like I said, get a site up SOMEWHERE and create a "traffic schedule" like RockNRolla said to do, and in eight weeks you will be making money.

I just launched a product 13 day ago and it's already brought in $484.70 in gross revenue. And you know what the first thing I've done is?

I've started to build an authority site about it that will go live in just a couple days. With the sole purpose of driving traffic and generating leads...

So I can sell even more.

Almost all of that revenue has gone into this project. I don't keep any of it. Do you think I care? Of course not. Why? Because the long-term rewards far outweigh short term gain.

So can you make money quickly? Yes.

How much? That's up to you.

Hey, I'm curious what your degree is in?

Care to share?

This type of guilt mentality hurts people, not helps them. Quite frankly I don't care if my parents worked their entire lives to pre-determine my future.

To put it in perspective, what if they worked their entire lives to put me through clown school so I could work in the circus?

If that's not what *I* want to do, then why should I give a rats ass?

I shouldn't. And nor should anyone else.

A key ingredient of living a successful life is following your heart and walking in your own path, not getting a map of how to life your life from someone else.

What crud.

Neither. Both of these people would probably make poor employees. I'd want someone who'd worked in the family business since they were a child.

At least they'd of learned work ethic.

The music character is likely to be a bit underdeveloped in that area, and the person who has been working is way up is likely to part company from you in a hurry.

Marc

Painting fences isn't much of a job.

The fact is without a degree the job prospects you're going to get just from "experience" are, for most, bleak, and will have a ceiling.

There are countless people I know, or have met as clients, who dropped out of college for whatever reason and then found out without a degree their climb up the ladder was only a couple rungs. Beyond that: no degree = no better job. Period. By the time they figure out the hard truth it is really hard to go back and get the degree. The real world tends to get in the way, bills, maybe a kid.

Are there exceptions? Sure. But exceptions are exceptions.

To answer Will's question specifically, I happen to know someone who studied music for 4 years got a degree, and was quickly hired by one of the most prestigious legal firms in the country. Trying to work your way up from the mail room doesn't work.

Since Will is not an attorney, and has likely never worked in a law firm, he has no clue what a firm is looking for when hiring.

A degree is an accomplishment. It requires a lot of work and it means someone did not quit just because they didn't like something or the going got a little rough. That's life.

This is how the interview works ...

Q: Did you get your degree?
A: Nah. I quit because I didn't like what I was doing.

Q: Thanks for applying, but you're not a good fit for this position.

Degrees count, and they count a lot.

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It would be crazy, but that isn't many people's purpose in doing a degree, I think.

Personally, I have no doubt at all that I'd be far worse off in IM if I hadn't finished my degree. With occasional vocational exceptions like business, law, accounting and medicine, it isn't really about "earning money", and it shouldn't be. My "formal, academic education" has been majorly and directly useful to me in setting up and running my internet marketing business successfully: I wouldn't be nearly so successful without it, because I wouldn't have developed the judgment and learning and analytical skills necessary to apply to new and different and unrelated situations.

I don't think it even matters very much exactly what one studies at college: it's more the process of doing it, and the thinking/learning skills acquired during that process, that matter. Those are close-to-essential for running your own business.

Often none at all, but that, also, has nothing to do with the primary purpose of education. It's very easy to underestimate the extent to which education (of various kinds) is beneficial to "being an internet marketer" successfully.

My views on this subject - whenever it's discussed here - seem to be right at one end of the spectrum (which is another way of saying "I don't really expect anyone to agree with me"), but I think it's even not far off "universal" to underestimate that, to be honest. And I think that, overall, in spite of the undeniable reality that some entirely uneducated people have become very successful through internet marketing. As so often, one typically hears far more about the rare exceptions than about the norms.

That judgment depends on what you think its purpose is, in the first place.

If you look at it in terms of "work opportunities" and "income opportunities", then what you (and others) are saying is entirely true and correct, of course. But that's an inappropriate way to look at education, in my view.

Education is about what remains with you after "the stuff you learned" has long been forgotten.

To those that said I should change major: I fully intend to but have decided to just take a year out because before I had obviously always been at school and a little pause will do some good.

I have decided to just stick it out on my first project and use it as a little starter site to get me through the motions and then I can apply what works to my future project and besides there I can't find a good review site in this niche in my country.

@Marc I wasn't asking for a niche. I have already found a niche. I was looking for a directory type thing with launch offers to promote. But I have found some after a little research.

College is a waste of money.

I dropped out early and didn't feel the full effects my brother did.

He is still $60,000 in debt with computer science degree from 2004 which is pretty much outdated. He can't get a job in his major to save his life.

I dropped out because I was already a master in my course of study. Photoshop Graphic Design. I felt like a senior in a kindergarten class.

I was already making a livings wage as a freelancer at the time. College was just costing me money

Naturally I dropped out.

And now I don't even do graphic work other than for myself. I'm not willing to work for less than $50hr doing graphical design not to mention ever since IM I've been a fan of white paper. Now any kids with half decent talent with a bootleg copy of photoshop can price me out of the market.

Glad I didn't waste 4 years.

Just do what you feel is best for you and don't let people lead you to believe they are an authority on what is best for you.

WEU World Education University is a free online college. It is not accredited but has been awarded degree-granting status by the state of California. Other states will follow. Course of study are limited to computer science or business.

That's absolutely terrible advice.

This is what I would recommend. Most courses are flexible enough for you to fit IM into your life as well. Having a degree is great if things don't work out straight away, and it means you have a better chance of getting a good paying job that you could use to invest in your internet marketing endeavors.