It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others. 
Well in any case, good luck. Hope you bounce back.
Well in any case, good luck. Hope you bounce back.
Back to the working world...
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One thing I miss about having a job is getting to see sexy interns and admin assistants all day long. I used to work for this company where the boss was a pure perv, the guy hired the hottest looking women in the industry. Fuck I miss those office parties.
Good luck and learn that python/django well.
It will be THE thing for sometime now, thanks to Instagram
It will be THE thing for sometime now, thanks to Instagram
right with you, things are changing way too fast to keep it up as a part time gig. Best of luck.
Not long ago I did land a contracting gig with a client...but that is now something on the side. I'm working for a company now, so no direct client contact. It's kind of cool actually, the company is already established but I'm joining a small development team that is basically in "startup" mode. We get to create new stuff and implement ideas as we think of them.
As for my sites...any that are profitable, I am just letting die a slow death and milking the last bit of passive income out of them before they breath their last breath.
I will continue on with IM so to speak, only now I am completely ditching the model of creating content sites and earning advertising income. Same with PPC...not something I'm interested in pursuing anymore. Now I'll be focusing on creating cool shit and things that people will actually want to use. Naturally SEO and PPC will be a part of that, but SEO and PPC no longer can just be the sole focus of a business model. That appears to be the state of IM today...gotta adapt and do what works for you.
I still have nostalgic memories of the old ebay affiliate program where we got $40 ACRU's and paid pennies for clicks from adwords. And pumping out RSSGM sites with markov chain generated content. And 4 slice toaster sites. Those were fun days.
It sounds exciting, good luck. I'm sure job security and the start up atmosphere are welcoming changes.
I am the 3%. Damn, that shit's depressing... Work for someone else and be an on-call bitch? Fucking never... but best of luck to you if that's your thing.
At least you seem to believe in what you'll be doing, but time-clock nazis can go fuck themselves IMHO...
In any case I wish you well.
At least you seem to believe in what you'll be doing, but time-clock nazis can go fuck themselves IMHO...
In any case I wish you well.
Imagine where you would have been if you started with this mentality in the first place.
Out of interest, do you have any formal education related to programming or did you get the job just from your portfolio/experience?
If he knew then what he knows now! Probably how most of us feel.
Congrats on the job. I too miss the office humor and joking around. I still work a job but I do it from home, so it's not that bad. Took a lot of getting used to I can tell you that much.
I see what you did there.
OP was grad school or something from his earlier posts.
So inb4 97% scrambles to go back to college. Community college at that.
I am in my grad school. IM has always been my part time I don't want to make it as my full time either. I always enjoy my professional career - Right now it is Research and Teaching as a graduate assistant. Will try to become a professor in the end as I like teaching and research. Life is doing what we like to do!
I keep on increasing the number of websites and increase the level of money I make, it is growing with time just simply with little effort! My VA handles most of my IM part and it makes it even easier!
So still you can automate and continue your IM while doing a full time job!
I keep on increasing the number of websites and increase the level of money I make, it is growing with time just simply with little effort! My VA handles most of my IM part and it makes it even easier!
So still you can automate and continue your IM while doing a full time job!
I regret to inform you that I'll probably be joining you soon.
Same boat. Most of my online stuff has just hit a complete fucking stand still. In fact, a lot of the people I network with are in the exact same place. A lot of us going back to the 9-5. A lot of my clients have just up and left the industry which leaves my pockets empty.
Did AM die? I don't know, but I will tell you the future is with product creation (as opposed to pushing offers for networks) and fucking apps. Going to be expanding into those markets soon.
It probably won't be hard for me to find something steady w/ good pay with my skillset but still it's depressing at the same time that it all came to a crashing halt.
Same boat. Most of my online stuff has just hit a complete fucking stand still. In fact, a lot of the people I network with are in the exact same place. A lot of us going back to the 9-5. A lot of my clients have just up and left the industry which leaves my pockets empty.
Did AM die? I don't know, but I will tell you the future is with product creation (as opposed to pushing offers for networks) and fucking apps. Going to be expanding into those markets soon.
It probably won't be hard for me to find something steady w/ good pay with my skillset but still it's depressing at the same time that it all came to a crashing halt.
I think one lesson to be learned here is that brokering traffic (whether it's SEO or PPC or whatever) isn't actually an asset, especially not something self sustaining. You need more than the traffic, you need something with value.
