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But back to the question, how does working full time from home change your lifestyle from whatever you used to do before? do you find that people working 'regular jobs' just 'dont know any better'? do you feel like you won the lottery? do you get lazy somedays because the cash machine keeps pumping out money anyway? do you get yourself new hobbies that you didn't have time to pick up before?
Just random thoughts and idle curiosity.
Now that I have reached my goal I find that I lack the same fire to get good results. Perhaps I should let the fear of going back to my old job motivate me.
On a serious note, I think as a full-time AM one needs to set goals. Otherwise you will spend too much time reading and posting on forums - just like me ;)
but you didn't hear it from me :) this is my alter ego posting. My real self is coding new sites *cough*...
The cash machine isn't quite pumping out enough yet, so laziness certainly hasn't kicked in. :)
I quit my regular job not long ago. I would say my #1 problem is refreshing webmasterworld 100+ times a day. I really need to stop browsing here and spend more time on site development!
There are downsides to working at home, but they pale in comparison to how much I dislike working for other people. :)
wellzy
When I finally got the call that said I was connected again, I quickly ran home and checked on the status of things: Everything ran fine without me!
Why this scares me is because it makes me think that I can get by with working even less....
COMMON FACT! :>
Work your as* off at all times! :>~
The day we all become lazy, say goodbye to the goodwill!
It is nice now to not have money worries but I find myself just saving it all up for improvement and investing in future growth.
Did anybody even mention that Bill Gates still works?!
We all want free time but in this business you cannot LAX! :(
IMHO of course!
MLHmptn
I think it's important to keep giving yourself goals. I tend to get restless without things to work toward so outside of the web stuff, I'm working on a novel and a master's degree.
I feel fortunate to 1) have a "job" that is meaningful to me and where I can see the results of my efforts and 2) have the free time to pursue my other passions. All I have to do is listen to a friend complaining about work to realize how lucky I am.
Haha, how did I forget to mention that? :)
<< Its hard to know when to stop >>
Totally. Today is my "off" day (I'm tring to take one day completely off a week..which just happens to be Saturday), yet I'm still here posting.
do you get lazy somedays because the cash machine keeps pumping out money anyway?
Funny you should say that...
I am not full time yet. I have/had a day job that was really burning me out. I would come home from the job and then work another 3-5 hours on my own thing. I kept saying to myself "If I could only have a solid month to work on this I could really start making good money and quit my job."
Well, I managed to get the month of November off, and then the month of December off too. Now that I look back at the 6 weeks off (so far) I wonder where all the time went and what the heck I really accomplished.
I have been working 5 days a week at my affiliate stuff but I don't feel that I really accomplished that much. On the other hand I made more in Nov. that I ever had before which is pretty cool. (But it is only about 1/3 of what I make/made at my dreaded day job.)
I guess the point is that even though I'm not full time, taking the 2 months off has kind of been like I was a full time affiliate guy. It is so easy to get up late, watch TV for a while, work on the biz, have some lunch, work on the biz, go to the gym, work on the biz, etc. etc that sometimes I don't know if I'm really working hard or if I'm just being lazy.
There is no time clock to punch and no office to go to so sometimes I lose track of the real life/work life/home life lines. The commissions keep coming in and so it is tempting to say I'll work more later on, even though I know that I need to increase my pay by a factor of at least 3 before I even consider "gettin lazy."
Sorry if this sounds too much like a blog ;-) This taste of a full time affiliate marketer has really been eye-opening. I can imagine that when I start making more money the temptation to get lazy will only increase.
But back to the question, how does working full time from home change your lifestyle from whatever you used to do before?
I find I shower less frequently.
Otherwise you will spend too much time reading and posting on forums - just like me
er you can NEVER spend too much time at webmaster message boards! If it wasn't for them, most of us wouldn't even be doing this!
Got tired of it in 6 months. Have a full time editor, an intern and 2 or 3 freelancers to co-ordinate. My ambitions are somewhere in between shopping.com and my current sites. :)
The cool part is my income has grown, my stress has reduced and my friends envy me.
set regular "store hours" during which you work ONLY on your business. Even if it's only 4 hours per day, 2 days a week - dedicate uninterrupted time to your business.
Good point-I second that! It is a major plus to "clock in" and "clock out" even if it is only to the computer on your kitchen table. We humans seem to really work much better on a set schedule since "I'll do it later" has a way of never happening.
