Who Else Wants To Learn About Getting Started Making Money From Home?

As we can see from the current slump in the economy, with all the layoffs, there is really no “secure” job. As for myself, I have never even had a really secure job, ever. And this in spite of having a Ph.D.

You see, in the academic world most positions are temporary and it is not until you become a Professor that you get a bit of job security. I never reached as far as to those pinnacles of achievment. Once I had a fellowship that enabled me to spend two years working at one of the most prestigious ivy-league universities in the United States — but that was as far as I got.

I remember that even back then I hated the academic world, and had vague ideas of starting a business of my own. I remember thinking about going for a degree in something like Business Administration — but felt very bored by that thought.

Let’s face it — if you have spent many precious years of your life getting a higher education, then the thought of going back to school again is, well, more like a nightmare. Actually, I used to have a recurring nightmare where I was back in High School and had to go through all those motions a second time! A most unpleasant experience indeed. More like in the movie “Groundhog Day”, where the same day seems to repeat itself endlessly.

Well — finally I found myself out of the academic world and holding a job in a Biotech startup venture. For once I liked my bosses — now things began to look quite promising. Unfortunately this came crashing down a year later. The company went bankrupt, and I no longer had a job.

Those bosses were no businessmen, they had zero experience running a company. They had spent money recklessly on fancy offices and such, oblivious to any warnings.

And now what? Well, I was frantically trying to find some business opportunity, something to get me going fast. No room for anything else, for a number of reasons. At that point I wanted a work at home business. I hated having to spend my time at some office, ruled by the whims of others.

Luckily, I had an Internet connection and I had been playing around with HTML coding. Plus I was well aware of the possibilities of selling things on the Web.

Now I had the good fortune of reading an ebook about how to make money as an affiliate — by marketing other people’s products and services. If I recall it correctly the ebook in question was by Rosalyn Gardner — I wouldn’t recommend it nowadays since I think it is now outdated. A couple of years back, I’d say it was a useful course.

Using that information I was soon able to make some decent money as affiliate for web hosting companies. Finally, I was able to work from home online and set my own hours. That is what I call freedom! Now I have several web sites, visit for instance my blog, dBusinessOpportunity.com.

Summing up: in case you are one of the many people who are searcing for a business opportunity online, then I suggest you take a look at affiliate promotion. There are thousands of products and services to choose between.