3 days of my new full time AM gig..thoughts
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Replace the "." key with your spacebar.efeezy.....good job man!!...and good luck!!.....i'm about to be in the same boat..........married with a son....a little older than u.....+6.....
...but it's never too late!!.....i basically spend all my day at work doing AM campaigns....research...etc...and get paid for it....lol.....but i've reached the point where i hate going to work...i hate all my bosses....i commute 3 hours a day to basically go to a job i hate...and that i don't need...yet i still feel the scare of quitting it....i guess it's that comfort zone.....wifey is behind me....so...that's out of the way.....i've just set Dec. 31 as my last day....i figure i'll go the end of the year.....but from what i read...it seems organization/motivation is the key to each day to not fall into bad traps......i can't wait till Dec 31!!!!...
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efeezy.....good job man!!...and good luck!!.....i'm about to be in the same boat.....
really?
I hope our adcopy doesn't look like this
It won't help.....vbulletin renders multiple consecutive spaces as a single space.....ok?
efeezy.....good job man!!...and good luck!!.....i'm about to be in the same boat.....
You remind me of a chick I dumped a while back, always with the fucking periods.
Unless your wife happens to know just as much or almost as much as you do about your business.
I don't do AM in the sense that y'all do, but I have spent time at home with just the freelancer schedule. Part of the appeal of working at home is doing away with the "face time" of the office. You don't have to impress anyone with your hours. I make a (nice) full-time income with writing in about 3 hours a night. I could make more if I wanted to stop teaching and go to writing full-time, but I teach because I enjoy it on a totally different level.
Consider what motivates you the most and what the true purpose of work is. I know you want to pay off your house and that's awesome. But if you're making $240K a year next year, the house is paid off and everyone is happy, do you still want to be working as much as you do now? It's different for everyone, but I find the greatest appeal of working for myself is how much time I don't actually have to be working...
But, like I said, things are different when you're constantly starting campaigns to beat the cycle, etc...
i'd say you just gotta keep your head on straight man...
make a schedule for each day.. and decide the amount of hours you wanna work a day
its hard bein at home to do that .. but if you can do that you'll be golden
make a schedule for each day.. and decide the amount of hours you wanna work a day
its hard bein at home to do that .. but if you can do that you'll be golden
yo in order for me to get in the groove with things. i posted notes with what i had to do with my old bosses name at the end... idk why but it worked. Eventually(cause i hated my old boss) when i started writing my own name on them i laughed at that biotch and was motivated as fuck. ha
First kid on the way?
I can guarantee the current restless nights are nothing to what you are about to experience, lol! (I'm going through it right now!)
"I've been doing it part time, along with my day job for about a year and a half. I'm now consistently making anywhere from $8K - $10K a month from AM. I figure now that I can dig in full time, I hope to double that within the year. "
Question/Advice request from you efeezy.
How did you go about managing your time and energy levels when balancing AM with your fulltime job?
Im doing this at the moment and although im having some success, you seem to have nailed it. Any tips?
Question/Advice request from you efeezy.
How did you go about managing your time and energy levels when balancing AM with your fulltime job?
Im doing this at the moment and although im having some success, you seem to have nailed it. Any tips?
Sarah_Jayne_UK
I hustle for Hustler
I have been working online and at home sine 1998. The most important thing is to structure your day. I know that when I don't do this I can sit here a whole day and not be at all productive.
Set yourself work hours and make a to do list. I even make my 'to do' timed when I am feeling myself slack off. So, I say 'I will spend an hour on this task and them move on' and I will even set a timer if I really am lacking focus.
The other thing is to try to make sure your family and friends know that just because you are at home it doesn't mean you aren't working. I swear..interruptions are my main set back in keeping focused and usually they are from people that think you can just take five minutes here and there. I can't or my focus goes.
Also..shut down any email programs you don't need for work until your work is done. Those 'somebody has commented on your facebook message' things suck up a ton of time and are too tempting if you see them come in.
Set yourself work hours and make a to do list. I even make my 'to do' timed when I am feeling myself slack off. So, I say 'I will spend an hour on this task and them move on' and I will even set a timer if I really am lacking focus.
The other thing is to try to make sure your family and friends know that just because you are at home it doesn't mean you aren't working. I swear..interruptions are my main set back in keeping focused and usually they are from people that think you can just take five minutes here and there. I can't or my focus goes.
Also..shut down any email programs you don't need for work until your work is done. Those 'somebody has commented on your facebook message' things suck up a ton of time and are too tempting if you see them come in.
I had a desk job in the car business managing corporate fleet accounts. It wasn't brain surgery and unless my phone was ringing when these companies needed me to find cars, I had a lot of down time. That's when I worked on my projects. I still sold a bunch of cars, and was a manager so nobody gave a shit what I did. I'd also put in a few hours each night if necessary. That's about how I handled it for the past year or more.
Don't know about everyone else, but I've kept the old day job of being a Real estate agent even though I do enough AM to kill that job several times over.
To me at least, there's appeal of going to a office every day , sitting down somewhere that's not my couch/lazychair with the laptop in hand and doing sites. Maybe I just like the office environment or such , but to me it feels more productive.
Congrats on killing the day job, I know when I went into real estate, after a while I quit my normal job which was scary due to the fact it was a regular paycheck and RE was not. RE to AM has been different, as I'm planning on taking most of my AM profits and putting it into real estate, so being involved in RE atleast to a point makes a whole lot of sense.
To me at least, there's appeal of going to a office every day , sitting down somewhere that's not my couch/lazychair with the laptop in hand and doing sites. Maybe I just like the office environment or such , but to me it feels more productive.
Congrats on killing the day job, I know when I went into real estate, after a while I quit my normal job which was scary due to the fact it was a regular paycheck and RE was not. RE to AM has been different, as I'm planning on taking most of my AM profits and putting it into real estate, so being involved in RE atleast to a point makes a whole lot of sense.
