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Turning calamity into possibility

About a month ago I discovered that my server had been compromised and as a result I lost all the content on this site. I was really annoyed at losing everything, but then I realised it was the perfect opportunity for me to finally do something with this site.

I have been making money online since early 2000, and for the first couple of years I made quite good money. Good enough for me to get lazy and spend too long sitting around on my butt thinking I’d finally cracked it, until I realised that 2 years had gone by and I was barely able to pay my bills. That was when I discovered Adsense and joined the program in April 2006. In May 2006 I made a staggering US$4.56 from Adsense, not a lot but I could see there was amazing potential. Since then I’ve had good months (over $100) and bad (less than $5), the important thing to note however is all this time my earning came from the absolute minimum of work… why exactly didn’t I put in any effort? Well mainly because although I was confident I could make a nice income and my dream was to do exactly that so I could escape the daily grind of a 9-5 job, I still found myself tied to the job by the demands of bills which just keep on coming. I was in effect stuck between a rock and a hard place, or at least I thought I was. The reality was I *could* have found time to work on my internet business, but after a day in the office all I really wanted to do was hit the local bar, chat to my friends there and get drunk. As far as I was concerned that was better than sitting home alone in the evening working on the computer.

So anyway fast forward to four months ago. I was offered a job in Bangkok, Thailand (I manage large scale web development projects) and so I packed up my life in Hong Kong and moved to Thailand. Everything seemed to be great, at least for the first month… then month two and we were informed by my new boss that the company I’d joined had run out of money and he wouldn’t be able to pay all our salaries !!

Bearing in mind I had moved country, quit a pretty good job in Hong Kong, put myself into a bit of debt just moving myself and my stuff and getting set up with a nice apartment here in Bangkok.

That was a month ago and I now find myself living in Bangkok, with almost no money and no job (we are all waiting to hear if the boss has been able to secure new investors).

So I’ve now got the time and the incentive to start really working on making an income online. It isn’t going to be easy but if I don’t do *something* I really have no idea what the future will hold.

I hope you’ll come back to read about my plans, my progress, my failures and my successes.

© 2008 The Adsense Idiot.