Have fun getting a job with that when your Internet Marketing career tanks for whatever reason.
My suggestion: Accounting.
Is college even worth it?
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Have fun getting a job with that when your Internet Marketing career tanks for whatever reason.
My suggestion: Accounting.
Where in my post do you see any reference to "Internet Marketing"? You missed the point entirely.
Good luck bro.
Not true. People grow up. Once they realize that you can't sit in front of a PC forever pushing traffic, the opportunities in the real world require some education.
I want to become a lawyer by 2017. Rather, I will become a lawyer by 2017, no doubt about it. I skipped out on college to play with the other basement dwellers online and now am fucking shit outta luck when it comes to applying for law school. No degree.
Same applies if I wanted to be CIO of a bank, something I am more than qualified to do. Can't. No degree.
It's cool to sling leads, but it's not a long term sustainable model for people like us?
Why?
We grow up and realize that there is more to life than fucking with meme generators, whacking off to smut on 4chan, and spending countless hours babysitting campaigns that honestly, would make as much money as a 9-5 would had we just gone to fucking law school in the first place.
i left high school around this time last year. a formal education can only go so far in this space. i speak for everyone on wickedfire doing well when i say that ambition to accomplish shit can't be taught. if you're grossing high 7/low 8 figures yearly there is still so much room to grow, its really quite incredible
It's worth it, at least for me.
I'm in my second year of College, with only 2 more months left in this year. As much as people say that you don't learn anything in college, I beg to differ. I'm majoring in Financial Accounting, and I plan to take this knowledge to my own business in the near future.
Balancing affiliate marketing and college work is not difficult. I do it, and I do both of them well, more so on the AM part. Another reason why I enjoy college is for the social aspect as someone has mentioned. I don't want to talk business with other people all day long, I don't mind hanging out friends that have no relation to any business.
One last thing to do, AM has a lot of high and lows. When you are in the high, you feel like the shit, and that you'll be ballin forever. But trust me, when you get a low, you start to regret some of the decisions you previously made because of your arrogance.
I'm in my second year of College, with only 2 more months left in this year. As much as people say that you don't learn anything in college, I beg to differ. I'm majoring in Financial Accounting, and I plan to take this knowledge to my own business in the near future.
Balancing affiliate marketing and college work is not difficult. I do it, and I do both of them well, more so on the AM part. Another reason why I enjoy college is for the social aspect as someone has mentioned. I don't want to talk business with other people all day long, I don't mind hanging out friends that have no relation to any business.
One last thing to do, AM has a lot of high and lows. When you are in the high, you feel like the shit, and that you'll be ballin forever. But trust me, when you get a low, you start to regret some of the decisions you previously made because of your arrogance.
OMFG you're actually wanting to work for someone else, aren't you?
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Either that or you believe that there is no way to make money online besides babysitting PPC campaigns.
Either way, your post above was the worst advice I've ever heard on the entire internet.
And that includes Teguh's posts too!
When you hit puberty, you'll thank me.
And since when does being an attorney mean working for someone else?
Buddy of mine clerked for a fed judge for 9 months, went out on his own in 2005, made over a mill last year. While we're out fishing, I'm the sucker on a laptop working, he's the dude relaxing.
Quit being such a shortsighted fuckstock.
Urgh, this again? Step into my office, and you'll see why (the "right") education matters. Making 7 figures with IM is ridiculously easy. Managing or multiplying that and building it into a sustainable business without the proper tools, very difficult. Have a look at the ~4 largest players that grew from the affiliate community and built solid "brands" (not talking about short-term defunct shady offers); all of them are from respectable universities. Some food for thought.
I'm a dual major Marketing + International business. So far I'm in my second year and have been taking Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese for four semesters. One more year and I'll be able to say I am fluent in four languages. If I decide not to do this your dam right I could find a good paying job that involves knowing languages.
Funny, that's similar to something your mom said when I'd impregnated her with you.
Clients, man. Clients can be even worse than bosses. You not only have to work to their satisfaction, but you have to SELL to them at the same time, provide support to them, etc. Bottom line on Clients is that you're still working for someone else's wishes. No freedom.
I have no boss nor any clients and I'd die before I had either.
Ahh, as see you're already well practiced at working for others because you're such a slave to AdWords, Adcenter, and Facebook Ads. I've certianly never taken my Laptop fishing, nor to any beach, anywhere.
Instead of thinking that "Growing Up" means more powerful positions or more education or anything so archaic, you shouldn't ever let anything compromise your freedom.
To eaches own. Here's a blog about a high paid lawyer who quit his job to live a simple life:
Adventures in Voluntary Simplicity
"Follow along as a former highly-paid lawyer gives up a life of material comfort and unencumbered excess, and embraces the beauty and freedom of simple happiness."
college for me is broken down to 3 parts, social life, networking, and schooling .. out of college i grew as a person, that was about it, i would not have found out about AM if it was not for college, and it opened a lot of doors for me
social life was great, that was like 60%, networking, lets say that was 20%, education was 20%
the education is a joke, the only thing good about a degree, and the only reason you need to get one is so someone will hire you. you will not learn shit about IM or business that you wouldn't learn 100x better by doing it yourself
if you are making money consitently and you dropped out and just continued to live in the college town i would say you are better off than wasting your time and money for something u don't need
social life was great, that was like 60%, networking, lets say that was 20%, education was 20%
the education is a joke, the only thing good about a degree, and the only reason you need to get one is so someone will hire you. you will not learn shit about IM or business that you wouldn't learn 100x better by doing it yourself
if you are making money consitently and you dropped out and just continued to live in the college town i would say you are better off than wasting your time and money for something u don't need
I'm pretty sure your dumb ass misunderstood my point. My point was there are lots of options down the road that aren't available without an education, regardless of how out of control balling you think you are right now pushing leads.
I was offered a CIO position last spring at a very nice bank. Only a background check was left and since I had the university I attended, but never completed, on my resume, they ended up rescinding the offer and giving it to this chick who had 1/3rd my experience and no large budgeting experience. The requirement was a bachelors/MA and I just didn't have one. Forget I had shitloads of relevant experience working in an organization many times larger than the bank.
It's not about being free from authority, it's about being free to do what you want when you want to. That's why most IMers have such horrific times when they marry, have kids, and raise the kids. I'm looking at my AIM list right now and can count 9 members on this board who are in that position, but weren't when I first met them.
What is this PPC you refer to? Is that like adsense, can I make my monies using that and creating WuYi flogs? I'm an obvious fucking idiot since I don't follow your exact methods to make 9 figs a year.
I think the research, time management and editing skills I learned in college were worth -far- more than my actual degree. I use those skills every day in my content writing.
Aside from that, I can tell you that in the city where I live, jobs are so scarce that having a degree makes not an iota of difference to prospective employers.
On the other hand, I'm now much happier doing what I'm doing online, and college helped me hone the skills I use.
What you do with your education will ultimately decide whether it was worth it. Not what some employer thinks of your degree.
And for god's sake, if you do decide to stay in school, party!
Following that logic, I'd be most free if I went out and got EVERY Degree offered in the world... Just in case I wanted to be a slave and use one someday.
Sounds like a whole lot of Butthurt. I see where you're coming from now though. Cool Story, Bro.
Agreed. And who wants to spend 2-6 years learning something they probably won't ever use and paying dearly for it, instead of making their dream bizness happen now? Doesn't sound like being free to me.
Agreed again, you are an obvious fucking idiot. Regardless of your business model, certainly regardless of my own, all of us should be striving to perfect however we make money, both in terms of cash output and freedom achieved. (Automation or outsourcing derived, usually.)
I'm not even going to mention how I make money because I know ppl who make money with adsense campaigns slinging berries that aren't strapped to their PCs all day like a wage slave.
Freedom will only come when you've taken your process of making money, fine-tuned it enough to make enough money to support you, and then automated it enough for you to be truly free.
Every other way of making money on the planet is for fucking losers, Period.