I was an average guy working in a 8 ? 5 job earning a comfortable 2k salary monthly. Me being single and a thrifty person, it was sufficient for my basic needs and even managed to save up 20k plus. A close friend of mine told that it will be better to use that money to good use rather than let it get poor interests from banks. We decided to open up a pasta caf?, me being the investor and him to run it. The opening was good for the first few days and I went about my usual work thinking everything will go on fine. But it did not. Business was bad for the next 3 months and we decided to close the shop. Instead of making profits we ended up paying an additional 5 over thousand to meet the clauses. During this whole period, I only ate once at my pasta caf?. At present I crack jokes to my friends saying that plate of pasta cost me 20 over thousands but at that moment the feeling was no where near being funny.

This incident created some sort of a phobia for me with businesses and decided that working 8 ? 5 is the best idea and safest. Things went on as usual and then I got introduced by another friend to network marketing or what is popularly known as MLM. I met lots of people who were successful earning wages monthly that were equivalent to my annual wage. I was convinced and signed up for an MLM company.

Now I have nothing against MLM but over time I realized that I do not make the money if I do not sign up more people under me or do sales. Naturally I am not a good communicator let alone have the caliber to talk and close sales. I finally understood that MLM is not for me and carried on my JOB again.

After this I got married and very soon I realized my income was not enough at all to sustain my family expenses, I depleted all the remaining money I had in savings and ended up in debts. Although I did not make it in MLM, it broadened my thinking and caused a craving to be successful financially and started to really dread working 8-5 and my bad financial status was getting me desperate.

This was the point when I got a Making Money Online pop up when surfing the net.

Now with regards to the internet, the only two things I knew were to do simple searches using the yahoo search engine and check my yahoo mails. Seriously my knowledge of the internet was very limited and thought twice about pumping in money again and again.

After much thought I did sign up with one anyway for $27 dollars as the sum did not seemed too much compared to the thousands I spent in my earlier money making ventures.

And thank god I signed up as it really changed my life. Almost whatever that the program talked about was new to me but I took things step by step and really wanted to succeed. It was not like what they say like it takes only minutes to see results. I took slightly over 5 days but it was worth it. Compared to my previous times, I saw results slowly but it was encouraging to see money growing in my accounts.

Now I have been following what this program has taught and made much more than what I made during my 8- 5 working days( which I quit December 2006). I have not become a millionaire yet which I believe I will achieve but now I am making a comfortable five figure income working from home less than 10 hours a week. I am able to take trips without worrying about taking leave and the amount of work that will be waiting when I am back from holidays. I am able to buy things I want without so much a worry on the price tags. Just bought a Toyota Camry for cash and paid my down payment for my condominium. These were all totally unachievable in my eyes once.

Why I am writing all these you may ask. Its not to brag about my success but rather to let you guys out there know all of us do go through bad times and just endure it; strive on and you will see success. Mine came in the form of internet marketing and I thank GOD for all his blessings. I was lucky in the sense the first program I signed up for internet marketing did what it said; it made me rich.

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