If Making Money Online Was a 9-5 Job

Hi Caroline,

…and that’s not counting the overtime hours or taking work home with you!

Second read and I’m still laughing!

Kim

lol…yes, it would not be pretty. I defintely don’t miss those type of requests in my former real world job. The key with having the freedom, however, is that you need to self motivate yourself when you reach those points where you don’t feel like doing anything. Still, it’s 1000 times better than working for someone else…

Caroline, that´s so funny. How do you know, what´s going on at my workplace? :-)
This is exactly what happens every day and every week at the office, which I still have to visit on a daily basis.

@Kim, hmm I’m working way more hours now then I did in my day job :/

@Financial Hack, Yes this is very true but I think its easier to motivate yourself when you have realistic goals that you know can be met.

@Marco, oh dear, that kinda sucks!

It can be somewhat funny sometimes when you have a “head of marketing” who really knows marketing but tends to describe the Internet as “something working with electricity invented by eBay”

That’s a cute list, Caroline. Keep up the good work!

A v brave move to give up the 9-5 and concentrate on the online making money gigs. And it certainly does show in your blog articles - as they are always polished and informative!

But don’t you miss the office environment? Just a teensy bit???

@Marco, Lol!

@Michelle, The only thing I miss is the cakes when it’s somebody’s birthday :-) I like being at home, I like being alone, I love the freedom, so no I don’t miss it in the slightest.

I love working from home now as well, and when I come to a grinding halt which is usually in the afternoons, I don’t bother trying to motivate myself because the quality of that work time isn’t worth it. I take a long break and go out, then maybe work until late in the evening.

I did used to get the kind of requests above sent to me by email, or even worse Skype, but I’ve dumped those people now.

The only thing I miss occasionally is the enforced thinking time on the commuter train.

@Andy, to combat that lull that tends to occur in the afternoons I just put my less important stuff at those times like catching up on blogs and I do my important work when I’m at my best.

Lucky for me my real job isn’t like that. Anyway, it’s part time (most of the time.) Though, we aren’t sure what’s happening to it over the next month… it’s in a weird phase.

You could always build a cubicle in your basement to reenact office offensives :)

lol Caroline, that was very well written! Hilarious, to say the least!