Jane_Doe - 3:38 pm on Mar 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

'I'm really keen to get into my own but only if I make atleast $X every month because that's what I'm making now'.

One of my friends wanted to try affiliate marketing. At the time he was between jobs. He said he had one day a week he could work at it for a few months then if he wasn't making his old full time salary he'd have to look for a regular job. So to work for himself he was only willing to invest about two weeks of full time work total and then if he wasn't making a tidy 5 figure salary he was going to have to look for something salaried.

In other areas I think this person is extremely sharp, so it was weird how unrealistic he was at how much effort it would take to build up his own business and how little effort he was willing to put in before giving up, even though he talked a lot about how great it would be to work from home and he certainly had the brains to be able to do it if he had really applied himself.

I don't think you have to be a risk taker at all unless it is risking what would be your free time on venture after venture that may not work

Willing to risk your free time is exactly what I was talking about.

[edited by: Jane_Doe at 3:41 pm (utc) on Mar. 30, 2007]