SOS: Help Needed

[webwork]

New user here seeking some advice with a growing problem. I wasn't sure where else to post this on the forum so I apologize if it is in the wrong area.

I recently embarked on my entrepreneurial journey in May to make money online after stumbling across Robert Kiyosaki's books.

Here's my problem, my parent's have became very curious and worried when they see me staying up late into the night on the computer (intensely researching for every ounce of information as how the big leaguers earn online) and demanded to know why I “was wasting my time on the computer playing games at night." I explained multiple times to them what I was doing but they think it is still “a game“- especially my father. He's not business minded at all and thinks people who write about self-employment are "crooks."

He is now hounding me to get a “real job before they’re all taken." I understand his concern because the upcoming semester of my third year at college is bearing down on me in two months. But since they don't understand or realize the importance passive income it's very hard to try to explain to them how a website can actually make money. When I informed them my online business made $120 in my first month, they scoffed and told me to "get a real job." They didn't understand it's wasn't the amount I was boasting about it's the fact that I can make money online.

To make matter worse, I have no credit card to pay to advertise my sites or affiliate programs via adwords so I'm unable to attract high traffic, targeted customers. I started a newsletter but have no subscribers to send it to. Even though I'm not making as much as I should be (due in part to laziness) I've seen the earnings potential of the internet and know people make much more than they ever could at a job. Earning that much online beats flipping burgers for minimum wage.

Though, should I give in to my father's demands to get a job and work part time online? I realize starting an online business is not a way to get rich quick. I need much more than $120 and know a job can provide a weekly income but deep down I'm resisting because I don't want to wonder what I could have accomplished in the time I spent working at a job. I want to start the wealth building process now, it will take a lot of time and I want to enjoy it when I’m young, not work at a job until I'm middle aged and then try to become an entrepreneur when I have a family to feed and bills to pay.

Sorry for the long post, but I'm getting frustrated and wish I could just make a profit windfall to end my parent's worries once and for all and to get my business off the ground so it can become my "job".

[Andreas Bard]

Most young entrepreneurs are or have been in your situation, with doubting and non-supportive parents. But I think you should get a job now, just as your father says.

Then you get capital to invest in your online ventures, and your parents will not bother you as much. You then can run your business in evennings and weekends, until you earn enough to do it full-time.

Good luck with your business!

//Andreas

[aspire2b]

I agree with Andreas,

Don't see getting a full time job as quitting your quest to become an online Entrepreneur, merely see it as a way of generating enough money to plug into your online businesses to gain higher traffic, thus more money.

I really don't mean to sound patronising here but when you're young you don't see the real reason your parents hound you and push you to get a job. They care a lot for you and only wanting the best for you.

Get a job > save money > use money to plug into your business ventures > businesses start to make a steady income > snowball effect > quit job & concerntrate on your businesses full time.

Use your time wisely.

Good luck with everything.
Jamie

[fattony]

I dont no which of Robert Kiyosaki's books u read but isn't he a firm beleiver in "Full time worker - Part-time entrpreneur" or something to that effect. Get a job and try 2 keep the parents happy. But then use the mony u make 2 launch ur venture. Also you 'll have a reliable source of income while u are building ur business.

Youll already b 1 up on a lot of people here, cos a lot of YE members hav ideas but no starting capital.

Good luck.

[tekmoney]

I wish people would read something more valuable than Kiyosaki's books before "taking the plunge"

[BOG]

Go get a real job until you earn more online than you do at your real job.

[JesseLear]

Know exactly how you feel. I've been working on my own ventures since I was 15. My parents would have practically killed me if I had decided not to go to college. So I went, both for the learning experience/opportunity, and to make them happy. And even though I am doing very very well in my ventures (setting several new records, building a contact base packed with powerful, successful people, making good money, etc.) they still just don't seem to understand. Even when I tell them about some new barrier I've broken, goal I've met, or awesome potential deal I've found, they just give me this blank stare as if to say "someday you'll realize it's just a game that you can't win"...or they'll say something to "bring me down to earth" like "but, what if this bad thing or that bad thing happens?"

Yes, it's annoying, but get the job. It will make the parents happy, and you can use it to benefit your ventures. But by no means give up your entrepreneurial aspirations after getting the job. Show your parents that you're trying to make them happy by getting the job, but that you're going to perservere with your online ventures regardless of their opinion of it in your spare time. They may never understand or support you the way that you wish they would. But at least they'll accept it.

You are one of the few who "get it", man. And sometimes that's tough, because most people don't. Stick with it and someday your parents will realize that you were doing the best thing, both for yourself and for them. My advice in one sentense? Do whatever you have to do to reach your dreams and keep the people you love happy.

[BOG]

Do whatever you have to do to reach your dreams and keep the people you love happy.

Hey Jesse, you do realize tha network marketing does not work, don't you?

[fattony]

I wish people would read something more valuable than Kiyosaki's books before "taking the plunge"

Well i dont no, yea is bokks wont really teach u anything about the business world, but he is very motivational. Its the first bokk on "business" I ever read and it gave a big push in the right direction. Then I came here and now the ball is really rolling.

So really I wouldn't knock, but I no where ur coming from with ur point.

[MpyreDzirez]

tekmoney got any good recommendations?

I started with Zig Ziglar because I was in sales , then Kiyosaki when i started thinking more about having my own business, Just finished Robert Greene's "48 Laws of Power", now reading Napolean Hill's classic "Think and Grow Rich"...would like to know what you had in mind when posting that.

Fattony I love your avatar!

BOG-don't go there man..have some decency

webwork... I know how you feel. You feel like well if your working this other job you wot have the real time you wish you had to put into this other venture. Don't do what I did, I saw the light that I could do something and then jumped outta the boat i was in and started swimming....it turned out to be swimming against the current. I had no money and people looked at me with much more disrespect. "look at the broke guy playing business" I then became desperate and started making mistakes that cost me more time to make it to where I am now. I still need much more to reach my goals but i'm paying the bills once again, instead of my wife, who thank god dealt with me for the last 6 months. (i'm only 24 but married and have a 3 yr old)

Do what andreas said..it sucks..but really it is the easy and right way to do it. I bet he was speaking from experience.

Onward and Upward

[youngmoneyblog]

go work with someone where you feel you can learn a lot. make the most of all your experiences.

[fattony]

Fattony I love your avatar!

Thanks for that

[Muddy]

You don't even have a credit card and your almost through college! I got one before I left high school.

Telling your parents you made $120 in a month is pathetic. That is about 14 hours of work at a low paying job.

[Road2Riches]

Muddy---your always so encouraging and a blessing to be around!! lol

Anyways, to the original poster:

I think its great that you are doing what your doing. For me I work harder when someone doesn't believe in me or tell me I will fail, I use that as my main motivation to move me forward. Don't quit your dreams because 3-5 years from now, it's what you are doing now which will determine where you will end up then.

Get the job,,,keep the parents happy and continue doing what your doing to supplement your income and u can use that Extra money to pay for advertisement like someone already mentioned.

And once you surpass your full time job income with your business venture then you can quit and have more time to fufill your dreams.

Good luck and God bless you,

Jean
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