As i have mentioned in the thread below that i am stressed, but i want to tell more about this and i want people to suggest me if i have any problem. Previous thread http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=715166 It's been 8months i am out of college and i was a cool guy during college. I never got stressed in the worst times and even when i failed. But later i got into this Firm named Infosys Technologies, considered to be one of the best in India. I am into a sick project where we serve our clients in the US. Our firm is paid $33 per hour for us and we get paid $450 per month inturn(number of hours vary and hence we get paid monthly). I know if i work for myself i'll do better, but wont have this security of job. I am working for about 12-14hours in the office. By the time i go home i dont have anything but to sleep and then i wake up and gotta run. I am so stressed with the job and life that i sometimes feel like ending it. But i know it is foolish and would never do that. I never understood of why i am getting so stressed. I know my boss is a sucker and all , but there are others too in the project and are facing similar conditions. I dont know if they are so stressed but i've reached my heights. I've lost weight. I'm loosing my health. If i work online i know i'll make atleast the same $450. I could do the directories and social bookmarking submission for ppl in BST initially to get that sum and later write blogs and articles for more. but i am afraid if i'll make it or not. The problem is i am ready to dare but i dont want to be a fool if i end up without earning atleast what my job is earning me. The problem is people die to get into this firm and here i am ready to ditch the job. And that's the reason why i dont want to be loser if i dont make it good online. Any suggestions??? Thanks, Enigma.
If the stress of your job is causing you to have no energy for anything else, lose weight, lose your health, feel so depressed you can no longer cope and even *think* of ending it... then isn't the *possibility* you could fail at making your income online worth the risk, if you can gain back your life?? 12-14 hours a day in the office... plus traveling, getting ready time... is far too much on an ongoing basis! No wonder you are making yourself ill. Even if you put these sort of hours into your own online work... and you may need to do quite a lot to start with... you don't have to leave your home and spend time traveling, plus the stress of working for an unpleasant boss. The feeling of working for yourself is much different, though it can have its own stress of course. As for how other people are, or are not dealing with a similar job... everyone is different, so what really matters is how you are dealing with it. You mention worrying about not having the stability of a job... well, it may be different in India, but here having a job doesn't necessarily give any guarantee of stability. You can have a job and easily lose it ... no matter how good you are at it, if the company decides for whatever reason they don't need your services, or can't afford you, any longer. I know it can be a scary feeling starting out relying on yourself, not a job, for money. (We have traveled that road and now successfully support ourselves with our websites.) But with time and confidence, you can do it, and although there's always a little worry in the back of your mind that things could go wrong, it becomes much easier to relax and concentrate on getting done what needs to be done... and enjoying your new freedom and choice- which doesn't mean slack off, you have to be committed, but you have so much more leeway. I know you don't have much spare time and you are so tired with all the hours you work, but can you get things off to a good start for your online work before you quit your job? Get earnings up to a level you are content with? That would probably make you feel safer. It shouldn't be too hard to be earning $450 per month if you get an assortment of things working for you ... just don't get involved in any scams or illegal activities! A good creative site(s)- I see you already have a blog- (on something you know and are interested in, preferably) with Adsense and affiliates can earn well... for some people... and you could be earning that amount within a few months- we earned more than that in our 5th month of our site, and now at about 12 months we are earning about US$4,000. You may not do that well, as lots of people don't, but learn all you can, write heaps of good useful content, promote your site in legal, quality ways... commit yourself, get motivated and excited about what you can achieve! In my opinion, if something is making your life this miserable and stressful, you owe it to yourself to try to change this drastic effect on you. It can have lifelong effects on your physical and mental health if allowed to go on for too long, and most likely you will end up burning out or breaking down, then you won't be able to do your job and will lose it anyway. Unfortunately, you may not be able to do much of anything else either for a long time, so may not be able to earn properly online either. The only other option is to somehow work at changing your view and reaction to your work, so that your perception changes, and your responses improve... but that can be hard! Good luck my friend, and I am sure people here at DP will be happy to give you advice and tips for creating your own online income stream.
The biggest problem here is time. As you have calculated, i almost spend about 15-16hours in all for my work including chores and travelling stuff. I really have bad moods to deal with. I'm fine when my boss is not critisizing me and then he cribbs and i have alternate moods. But i feel if i am free then i wouldn't take much time to feel better and regain. May be about 2months would do. But the problem as i have already mentioned is Job Security. The job in this firm is said to be so secure that even in Y2K, no one was ditched out of the job, but the jobs actually are non-creative shit. Anyway, my problem is that with all this i am not able to make time for myself. No time even to update my blog . I just keep visiting DP while working for a minute or two. I am so really confused. If this goes on then i know i wouldn't survive good. By listening to online success from different people i dont think it is really hard to achive the $500 per month target, but what if i go wrong and earn nothing or end up in some scams. I know i could even submit websites of peole to directories and go on, but i have good ideas which need time to implement and that is what i dont have. And the problem is i am not sure if they would be really successful if i do them too.
I don't know if this is a possibility for you or not, but here's an idea... Do you have much money over from your job pay after paying everything you need to pay? I'm not talking about luxuries or going out or extras... just what you really have to pay?? Anything you have left, put into savings! If you can save enough for a few months living expenses (preferably at least 6 months- more is better), then you would have enough to see you through while you see if you can succeed with your online income. It gives you some time to try things and find out if it is going to work for you... or maybe find a different less stressful job. Do any extra work you can... online or wherever... so you can get more savings. Can you live with family or share with friends to cut expenses? Go without any treats, take your lunch to work from home, don't buy cups of coffee etc... be hard on yourself for a while so that you can save as much as you can as quickly as you can... think of your future freedom when you get tempted! As for your moods... were you like this before this job? If not, I'd tend to think they are at least partly due to the stress and depression you are suffering, and hopefully will lift if you get away from the situation. If you are really feeling bad, can you get an appointment to see a counselor of any kind? Maybe your work even has some? Or your doctor could recommend someone? Just someone to talk these feelings through with and help you make some alterations in your life, and decisions. I hope that you can find peace and inspiration in your life... because, even though there are ups and downs, life should be a joy! Not something you consider *ending* because it's all too much. (Unless something really traumatic happens, then it's hard to feel any joy for living.) It's a matter of finding the right environment to find that joy, and the right mindset and way of seeing things.
As of now i dont have money cuz i am helping out my bro in clearing few debts. But will be able to save a good sum after 3months. I can control myself over luxuries very easily and i can as well stay with my parents. As of now they are in a different state but if i give up this Job i'll surely be staying with them. If i want i could survive my expenses with $150 per month. But my investments in this online business would be a different issue though. According to you, i should be starting my business(taking this risk) exactly after 6months from now. But the problem is i am not sure if i'll be able to survive this sickness till then. My doctor adviced me to chill out and not to take pills at this point because this is all temporary and just out of the stress in my job. And yeah, i was never like this before in my college. I did have problems then too and i did have bad moods too, but nothing lasted more than 3-4days and i was back to normal. but now things are getting worser day by day. Thanks, Enigma.
I've learned that one should never leave day job and trust only in online $$$$... and it looks racional to me.
Freelance what?? My Skills: Can Write well. Could take up article writing, blogging. May be i can even take up a list of directories and offer the directory submission in BST. But what else will i do? I dont have coding or web designing knowledge at all. So my projects are like costing me heavy to start with. Will i be able to take up freelancing and earn atleast $500 per month by writing articles and stuff?
Maybe i tried to get another job. But definitly i'll stick with a regular job. Best wishes, Enigma I know you will have the best option.
DP must be one of the main points of web-master gatherings on the Internet. Web-masters who have success are likely to share their story with the world and prize with it as much as they can, mostly people fail in online businesses, you don't hear over 90% of such failure stories as they simply move on back to the offline world. There are many success stories, MySpace, EBay and thousands of other web-sites out of millions out there.
Yeah i do know the people who haven't found any success online have always outnumbered successful people but i have done a lot of research. Been reading many posts on DP since i joined three months back and i'm loaded with info. But the only problem is i dont have time to experiment. Even the blog under my sig has not been updated by me cuz i need peaceful time to write the content which i dont find at all.
If you don't have time to experiment and may quit a full-time job to go into the uncertainty, it is a risk by itself. Take 1 month off from your full-time job if it's possible, try with online business and see how it goes, the worst thing one can do is to quit paid job he has got and hope to earn on a place that doesn't guarantee anything.
Yeah, very true. That's what i have decided finally. But have to wait till njext 3months to do it for some reasons. My bro needs a steady money for next three months for me. Thanks all