There are so many great reasons to work from home online. You can be your own boss and make your own decisions. You don’t have to play office politics and schmooze people who make your skin crawl. You can feed yourself good food instead of zapping a micro-meal in the office microwave that has god knows what growing in it. You can babble aimlessly to your pets when you take a break. You can go to work in your pajamas if you like. If you have kids, you can put them higher on your list of priorities without begging for time off.
You really can make money from home. How much? That depends. Self-employment of any kind is tough. I started my first business when I was 18. It fizzled. I started freelance writing when I was 28 and have been doing it ever since, but I’ve never made more than a part-time income from it. I started a small publishing company in 1999 and couldn’t take that to a full time income either. And it’s a grim fact that 99% of all online businesses fail.
So why should you listen to me when I talk about working from home online?
Because the ones who make it are the ones who stand back up when they get knocked down. Business is hard on the nerves, hard on the ego, and when you’re starting out, hard on the pocketbook. I’ll never forget the story of the guy who started FedEx. He had to borrow millions in venture capital plus put up $4 million of his own money from a previous business. During his first three years in business, he lost all of it and once had to go to Las Vegas with $40,000 in his pocket to play blackjack so he could make payroll. He hung in there, and look at FedEx today.
But along with hanging in there, you have to work smart and learn from your mistakes. If you learn fast, you’ll find what works before you run out of money. I’ve made some mistakes along the way that I’d like you to learn from so you won’t have to repeat them. And I’m lucky enough to have found some great teachers. I’m learning how to work from home online from some of the best in the business. You’ll find their names in the sidebar–go click on their links and see what they say. They won’t harvest your e-mail or stick pop-up windows in your face trying to get you to buy something.
The biggest reason you might find something of value here is that I’m pretty good at explaining things. I’m a teacher, so I know how to assemble a huge jumble of separate ideas into a system and explain it in writing. That’s hard to find on the internet, where everything is in bits and pieces, and half of it comes from people who are lying to you because they want to sell you something.
I wish the very best of luck to you if you want to work from home online.
