Give up my current job?please give advice

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[kwongwo]

Dear all,
I work for a US IT company now, but the salary is as low as the payment in my google ads account.

my situation:
1. I spend 9 hours at the office every day for my salary.
2. I spend the weekend(2 days) at my website (in fact i have my own software) for my google ads.

For me,i should still work for the company ,or i should work for google ads?

kindly,could you pls help to give me some advice?

many thanks!

aico

[wackybrit]

We can't really answer that question. It all depends on your circumstances.

Remember that Google could drop you tomorrow. You might lose your source of income thanks to a single miscreant who decides he doesn't like you and decides to click on your ads a thousand times. If you have a family, a mortgage, or whatever.. stick with your current arrangement!

If you think your free time could be spent developing an even better income source, however.. then you could quit your job, and spend all your time working on something else. Whatever you do.. don't rest on your laurels! :)

[Visit Thailand]

[webmasterworld.com...]

[Chico_Loco]

DO NOT give up your job.

Get some sense man - save the money you make with adsense and continue to work at what you do.

What is wrong with people these days? Nobody has any capitilization left in them.

If google gives you 10k /month and work give you 6, then do them both and get 16k - adsense takes up almost no time anyway - you can build content in the evenings.

[incrediBILL]

Hint: if/when you lose your Google SERPs and your AdSense revenue goes to $0 - you don't get 2 weeks severance and you can't apply for unemployment as AdSense isn't a job, nor does AdSense have insurance or a 401K plan.

However, if you really want to do this, wait until you have about 6 months worth of wages in savings in the bank, then when you have a nice safety net I'd say go for it. But I wouldn't quit a day job over ONE web site, unless it's raking in massive income, maybe I would over 3-4 web sites.

[europeforvisitors]

Some publishers have reported big drops in earnings lately, and if you visit the Google News forum, you'll see a lot of complaints about missing sites as a result of Google Search's Allegra update. Other publishers are doing as well as (or better) than before, but the recent upheavals just drive home the point that earning a living from the Web can be a risky proposition.

[Jesse_Smith]

Rumor has it that you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket!

Not until you are also making big bucks from other programs should you even thing of quiting!

[asianguy]

ATTENTION EVERYONE:

Never leave your job because Google Adsense is not a guaranteed income unless you have other business going on. Google is a very unstable company relying only from advertisers. Furthermore, Google can drop you anytime, whenever they want.

[dollarshort]

If I were miserable at work, I would quit, even without adsense. Sell ice cream on waikiki!

[kwongwo]

Thanks a lot,every friend.
i will choose next month!
my current saraly is too low for me to offer my further house.

may be i should quit.. may be not..

thanks again.

[Freedom]

Continue working on your sites and wait until your AS income is 2-3X more then your salary. Have at least 6 months of your salary income socked away and then quit on very good terms.

I understand you are miserable at your job. You hate going to work, you are stressed out and feel under appreciated. Take your pick. I know what that feels like. I say go for it but make sure you have planned ahead very well.

[dirkji]

I'd say quit your job if you don' like it and doesn't pay well. Who wants to do something he doesn't like all day, day in day out?

Try going for Adsense and add some other eggs in the basket.

And if after all it isn't working or you decide you don't like doing this either (it's hard work) I'm sure something else will pop up.

Don't be afraid to do what you want and like!

Kind regards,

Dirk.

[david_uk]

Sounds like by quitting the 9-5 you will be halving your income. Can you afford to live on half the money?

Also, as the others have pointed out, Google is not guaranteed income, you don't get any unemployment benefits from them if they close your account etc etc.

Unless you can really and truly afford to live on half the money, I'd be inclined to look around for a new day job if you aren't happy, and keep working on the websites.

[snoremaster]

After reading all the gloomy stuff people write here you got to ask yourself, why not do it?

Seriously do I want to work for someone else when I have the opportunity right now to work for myself? Isn't my life worth me taking control of my destiny? When you have a job you are relying on other people to take the initiative and the risk for you and if they fold you fold without having the benefit of learning about initiative and risks.

Google adsense is not going anywhere soon. Yes you might be targeted for extinction by some mathematical fluke but really what exactly are the chances of that happening, about as much as the company you work for folding? When you work full time on your own projects you could lift your site to new heights and drill for alternate sources of revenue.

You know I always remember what my grandma said half jokingly 'what're you going to be able to tell St. Peter you did with your life when you reach the gates of heaven?'

[Jon_King]

>>Some publishers have reported big drops in earnings lately

Yep. How'd you like your only income cut by 70% without warning? That's what's possible with AdSense. Keep your day job IMHO.

[funandgames]

Someone clicking on your ads 1000 times will not get you removed from Adsense unless they do it from your personal computer or you check stats from a public computer. Google filters repeat clicks. If it was that easy, there would be chaos and anarchy all over the internet. Stop trying to scare people.

[taps]

last month I would have said: quit it.

At Feb, 3rd we lost 70 percent of our users and 75 percent of our income. It really hit us hard and I think it was my own mistake. Right now, we are recovering slowly. And I am lucky to have other businesses running besides that site.

That teaches one thing:

Before you quit make sure, you can live at least three months without any income from Adsense.

If you quit, look out for some other business opportunities. Become SEO expert (white hat of course) or go and write for print magazines, become IT expert, programmer, web designer or whatever you like. Take every free minute to improve your skills.

Never rely on one business only.

[dollarshort]

I think adsense is more secure than most IT jobs these days, outsourcing is still rampant, I lost my programming job, found another then lost that a year later all thanks to outsourcing, companies will do anything to save a buck.

[kwongwo]

thanks for all,i will look into it.

in fact,if i can make $50 every day from google adsense or other way,i want to quit my current job.

there is 2 reason.
1.my current saraly is too low,only $1000

2.i want to spend more time to do my own business.

so,the question is
can i earn $1000 ervery month from the website and software?

please give more advice,thanks a lot.

[dvduval]

If you had more time to devote to your business, then I'm sure you could make even more than you do now. I say quit your job, but think about ways you can make money besides adsense. I quit my job a little over a year ago, but I don't depend only on adsense.

[Chico_Loco]

so,the question is can i earn $1000 ervery month from the website and software?

YES, you can earn more than 10 times that. The following month however you might be down to $50 / month. Google is not reliable in terms of income.

[sahuman]

With my recent adsense earnings, I have started looking for a job.

[rfung]

I was making $300/month in adsense and about $4000/month in my job when I decided to quit. I looked at where the job was going (more responsability, more work, more stress, and no corresponding raise), and wether I wanted to be doing it 5 years from then. Then I looked at the potential of where I could go 5 years from now growing my site(s). The choice was easy.

Granted I have no kids, mortgage, car payments to deal with and I moved back to my folks' home (so free food and no rent) - now 6 months later I make $100+/day (even after being hit by the adsense changes) so I'm almost to the level of my former job's pay check. In 6 months I plan on reaching $200/day, through adsense and affiliate marketing, so I am trying to diversify.

IF you have enough savings/cut back on your expenses, AND you've reached some sort of succesful formula that can make you some adsense/am profit, quit now, so you'll have more time to build your sites, and potentially grow them a lot faster than putting only two days a week into this.

Oh, the flipside is that after 3 months you may find out you couldn't hack it in AM, and u're out of a job, out of savings and eating packaged noodles for every single meal. If that doesn't scare ya, then what do you have to lose?:)

[qwer]

Ask miguelito:
[webmasterworld.com...]
He left his job after being 6 months with AdSense and recieved the "invalid clicks email" 2 days later.
I would suggest that you should quit your job ONLY if you have at least 2 different sources of income (better 3), like AdSense, CJ and Clickbank, for example.

[hyperkik]

An obvious corollary, without any specific case in mind: If you are thinking about quitting your day job for AdSense, don't build your income on tactics which violate the AdSense terms of service. (Or, for that matter, tactics which violate the TOS of the primary sources of your traffic.)

[jetteroheller]

This question is very very old...

For example Hercules in the saga, the hero had to decide betweeen.

Comfortable and simple life
Difficult life with many adventures

[jetteroheller]

I try to give up my job since I started with AdSense

2004

2 clients went bancrupt
1 client paid his bills half year late
1 client paid at last half of his bills half year late
1 client changed from hotel to asylum. As an asylum, they do not need a web site anymore
1 shark started his usual yearly price war.

[ownerrim]

if your day job really sucks and makes you miserable, maybe you should quit. But wouldn't it suck more to not have that day job and find that you epc has gone overnight to 1/5 of normal?

[ownerrim]

however, if your day job is the kind that you can easily get again, maybe it' worth taking a shot

[dvduval]

Ask yourself this question..
How painful will it be a year from now being at your current job, and never having found out if you could have made it on your own?