I work a full-time job. With my online business I will gross around $30 - $50k per month depending on the month. Now you might ask why I still work if I make all this money and here is why. 1. I work at home with my brother so we do a 50/50 split. 2. My Work pays for my benefits. 3. My job is cake and I do 90% of my marketing from my computer at my full-time job. 4. My full-time job pays me good for a 23 year old kid. I do want to quit my job one day but really I'm scared to. I'm a web designer by trade and I feel if I quit and my online work goes under I'll have a very hard time finding a job like the one I have now. Bottom line though I spend about 4 hours a day online working at my business. Having a partner is huge because they can take a lot of the work load off you. Example I do a lot of the web work and marketing where as my brother does a lot of support and sales. Chris
Hell no. I am a student, but I don't give a toot about any of it. It doesn't matter in the end unless you are looking to work for some fortune 500 company. I live and study in Thailand. When I graduate, I can get a job almost anywhere here just because my skin is white. Sad but true. I won't even want a job, but I will take it so I can keep a work permit to live here. Now, I make most of my money freelancing here. I just got into AM. Do it a few hours a day. Make 50 bucks a day. Pays for two apartments, all my food and needs. Just working on covering tuition now. Also, covers a girlfriend. Haha. She works, but wages here a shiat. 70 cents an hour starting pay. Yuck. I win.
I hope someday with all the hard work that I have put into many ideas, that someday..it will payback. Good luck too all looking to make your idea a full time job!
I run marketing for a start-up w/ a great team working for me, and we're all in the age bracket of 25-35. I've worked for myself before but like being w/ people, and chose to take a full-time job because I want to build my own company and wanted to learn how to raise funding to really go after the big bucks