Comments on: A Leap of Faith

By: tel

tel — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:38:52 +0000

That's the nice part of actually making this stuff work. You can say "I told you so" to all the doubting Thomas types and hold a metaphorical finger up to the ex-boss and corporations in general that only want to use you to make them rich!

By: janet

janet — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:12:50 +0000

Nice post Tel it certainly rang some bells for me.

“Mmm, the “get a job” philosophy is the rule and we are the exceptions it seems!”

Count me in with the exceptions. The only reason I still have a job is because I need one to be allowed to stay in Antigua.

I enjoy the commute to work though as I drive along the the coast with a gorgeous view of the Caribbean Sea, a beautiful white sand beach and palm trees. Beats the commute I used to do in the UK!

It’s taken me almost two years but I’m now making $2000 a month and all those people who were laughing at me for always ‘playing’ on the computer have now shut up.

By: tel

tel — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:42:15 +0000

Thanks for that Jim, and I believe that if you want something bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it. I could have given up on trying to make a living from the Internet after the first year of floundering around and going nowhere fast. But I believed that it was possible so I dug in and found a way.

I’ll be the first to admit that it hasn’t been easy. In fact its been bloody hard work, more than I’ve ever done before in terms of extremely long hours and hammering away at brick walls that never seemed to want to topple. But after a while, they do start to topple and with every small victory I get the motivation to keep going. I’m still far from that place where I can call my income comfortable, but I’m getting there, little by little. Luckily, the cost of living here is a lot lower than in the US, so my US dollars go a lot further that they would in the US.

Getting past the $1k a month was the biggest milestone and meant I could just about scrape by. Hitting $2k is the comfort level here and that’s not too far away now as long as things keep going the way they’re going. After that, its all gravy!