aleksl - 3:40 am on Jan 9, 2006 (gmt 0)

Great inspirational post, Sandy, I wish you all the best. They only thing I'd like to qualify in your post is these statements:

I started creating informational type websites on subjects I was interested in and I ran advertising on them, mostly adsense

About 1 year after beginning doing freelance work, I stopped. I was making too much money from my own sites to justify my time working on other peoples.

and

I have had no job for years now, just my websites.

When I was originally reading this it seemed from your post that it took you a year to make so much money with Adsense that you didn't need to work. After reading it over again, I realized that the websites were there most likely for a long time...now, Adsense's been here less than 3 years, so to say "I ran adsense" and "after a year I quit my job" probably means you quit your job less than 2 years ago, so "I had no job for years" doesn't quite add up.

Can you please clarify - and I hope this preserves your anonymity: (a) approximately how long ago did you start your first site, and (b) when did you quit working for other people. This is not for myself, but for all other newbies who want to follow your path, and don't want to be mislead that this is so easy.