I was 18, I just started college at a nice $17K a year university and I was loving every minute of it. I’d always had an interest in business, never really expressed it but it seems to me it’s always been there. I quickly realized at about $11,000 in school debt that it would be in my best interest to get some sort of my own income. There were so many possibilites. One was a job — which wasn’t out of the question since I’d been working every since I was 14.
Well, the thought just seem to sickened me more and more as that became my only possibility. I didn’t want to have to work. Frankly, working sucks. Then one fateful day the opportunity that I had been looking for seemed to fall into my lap. They were looking for business-driven, goal-oriented, deprived suckers. Of course I didn’t know — and they loved me for it. I guess I only read the first two attributes of their candidates and skipped straight to the number. Paul, the owner of a painting company was holding interviews for business students at my college. He was hiring Chief Managers for summer painting crews.
One definitive thing I can say about myself is that I’ve never gone to an interview and not gotten the job. I guess I’ve just got an attention to detail, and an amazing smile. A firm shake of their hand, and look into their eyes just long enough to see what color they are — no longer. From there admit your weaknesses but always compliment them with a strength. Never hesitate — expect success and you’ll get it. Well I got a second interview and then a shiny new label, "Chief Manager" .. It was a beautiful thing. Four weeks of training, 36 leads (a record high), and nearly $800 in gas later I hadn’t a thing to show for it. They fine-printed me, didn’t pay me a dime, screwed me on my leads, and sent me on my way. I guess it’s my attention to detail and amazing smile, both of which, coincidentally, took a hit that day.
3 months into my professional career field, and I had already experienced it — failure of monumental proportions. Long story short, that list of my 36 leads and their home phone numbers turned out to be sweet revenge. Anyway, I still needed a job and I still had no money. I knew people were making money on the Internet. I didn’t know how or where to start.
Thinking back now I might have landed on John Chow’s website with my initial search on Google — the ever so popular "make money online" query. I still remember my first make money ebook I bought. It didn’t tell you what you’d be doing, just that you could work 2 hours a day and make up to $125 an hour. I bought the $39 ebook on stormpay that ended up giving me a huge list of paid survey sites. I can’t help but take a second to laugh. The thing is, I learned quickly that the paid surveys weren’t going to make me money, but the guy selling me the list sure was.
In a matter of weeks I dominated the featured listings selling that guy’s ebook and a couple more. It was low, despicable conduct, but I loved driving him out, and eventually I did. So for starting as someone buying $39 paid survey lists on Stormpay, to now making a comfortable living as an affiliate — I’ve come a long way. Yes, and that’s quite an understatement. I don’t feel I need to go into details of my long journey… everyone whose been there knows how it goes. The thing is, I’m only 21, haven’t even graduated college and I’m generating an income that a lot grown adults don’t even have. …And this is just the beginning.
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