The Company Went Bankrupt: I Started My Own Online Business

The current recession has made it evident that even a “secure” job isn’t that secure at all. 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. And I never got that high up in the hierarchy. Once upon a time I got a fellowship and spent two years at Harvard (one of the top U.S. universities); but that was it for me.

Even back then I was actually fed up with Academia, and secretly dreamed of being in my own business. I thought about maybe getting a degree in Business Administration but that didn’t inspire me at all.

The thing is: suppose you have spent a heck of a long time getting an advanced degree — then the idea of going back to school again is not appealing. The thing is during one period I even had a nightmare: I was back in High School again — and that awful dream kept coming back! A most unpleasant experience indeed. It felt more like something from the “Groundhog Day” movie, where one day endlessly keeps repeating itself.

OK, I did at least manage to get out of Academia and get myself a job — in a small fledgling Biotech company. For once I liked my bosses — now things began to look quite promising. However, in only about a year things crashed. The company I worked for went belly up — leaving me without a job.

My ex-bosses were nice people but they didn’t know how to run 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. For several reasons, I had no other options. At that point I wanted a work at home business. I was totally fed up with spending my days in some office, having to deal with office politics and so on.

Fortunately, I had a bit of knowledge about the Internet and I knew how to build web sites. Also I realized you could make money selling stuff online.

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. This particular ebook, by Rosalyn Gardner, is nowadays rather outdated, since the Internet changes so fast. Nevertheless, it was useful back then.

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. This is my idea of 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. You can choose from an astronomical number of things to promote.

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