The current recession has made it evident that even a “secure” job isn’t that secure at all. Personally, I haven’t really had any other jobs than temporary ones. 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.

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! Not too pleasant, I’ll tell you. More like in the movie “Groundhog Day”, where the same day seems to repeat itself endlessly.

OK, I did at least manage to get out of Academia and get myself a job — in a small fledgling Biotech company. I got along fine with the bosses and the future looked rather bright. However, in only about a year things crashed. The company went bankrupt, and I no longer had 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? Now I spent all my energy groping for a business opportunity — it needed to get me on track really quickly. For several reasons, I had no other options. Now I wanted a work from 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.

I happened to stumble on some ebook on the subject of making a good living as affiliate; ie. by marketing other people’s stuff. 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it correctly the ebook in question was by Rosalyn Gardner — I wouldn’t recommend it nowadays since I think it is now outdated. Nevertheless, it was useful back then.

I gleaned enough from that ebook to begin making some good cash promoting web hosting plans. Finally, I was able to work from home online and set my own hours. That is what I call freedom! At this time I have a whole bunch of blogs and web sites — one of the blogs is dBusinessOpportunity.com.

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