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I have up to 25,000 impressions a day on a hobby site, and make nothing on it... time to change THAT statistic!
With all of your help.... So thank you in advance. I hope to share my experiences going forward.
Not all people are like that, some are happy bosses, others are happy employees, those in the middle that do not know for sure which type they belong to are usually the unhappy ones, find out which type you are, don't allow greed to be your only motivation, follow your destiny, and don't look back.
I was one of the unhappy ones until adsense came along.
If you look at any self made millionare they all have this in common. They rolled the dice, put it on the line, took the chance. They did it becuase they were desperate to become wealthy.
Really? How many do you know or are you quoting often written supposedly factual statements?
Personally writing, yes, I am in the club and have been for many years and it is all self-made, desperation for wealth has NEVER had a thing to do with my business plans.
Maybe I am naive however my driving factor has always been to be the best in my niche, to be the undisputed #1 for quality and service for my widgets. I have many friends who are also in the club and this trait is the overriding similarity between us, wealth per se, has never entered into it.
In the late 90's one of my html apprentices was watching me hand code one day and found it difficult to comprehend why I was particular about being so precise. I explained the necessity for clean code however it took at least a couple of years before he really appreciated why however he did used to call me a "code whore" whenever I made him re-do work!
Personally writing, yes, I am in the club and have been for many years and it is all self-made, desperation for wealth has NEVER had a thing to do with my business plans.
I don't think that's an uncommon attitude. Stephen King didn't set out to be a multimillionaire, and I doubt if Larry Page and Sergey Brin were thinking of buying a 767 when they wrote their graduate paper on Google and PageRank at Stanford.
I remember a nice quote that I saw many years ago: A Wall Street yuppie tycoon (I forget his name) said "the money is just a way of keeping score."
This year I'm still going to University, somewhat parttime. I'm still going to some of the lessons because they are interesting and - it's funny I know - because otherwise I get up way too late and have even less time to work ;)
Going to all courses and learning hard for the exams would require too much time - I can't combine it so I'm going to quit. I've thought about this for a couple of months and decided to temporarily suspend my education. My income is already quite high now and I see lots of ways to increase and diversify it. I'm going to give it a year and see how it works out.
If my business collapses and drops below $100 or $50 a day I can still go back and follow the University road in September 2007 or 2008. I'm still young so everything is still possible. I'm going to take the risk and I believe it's the right choice.
Personally writing, yes, I am in the club and have been for many years and it is all self-made, desperation for wealth has NEVER had a thing to do with my business plans.
It would be if you spent a few years eating mac n cheese for dinner. ;)
I get what your saying though, after you make enough money to be secure, I would imagine striving to be the best would be the next goal.
To some degree money doesn't rule most of us. MOST of us, for example, wouldn't create a site about having sexual relations with animals no matter how much money was in it.
I do like macaroni and cheese (but not the kind that comes from a box).
But not everyone is in the same boat, and not everyone started Adsense with the same circumstances.
Quitting a job may be a doorway into self-sufficiency for some, while becoming a fall into financial hell for others.
So AdSense is just perfect for someone like me...
It would be if you spent a few years eating mac n cheese for dinner
Top with cracked pepper, diced jalapenos and the hot sauce of your choice and it quickly becomes a gourmet cajun dish.
