Working at Home on the Internet

My Fun Interview of Myself

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I have interviewed a few people who Work at Home on the Internet for this Blog.  It’s always a fun thing to find out what others do in their work at home life.

No one has ever asked me for an interview, so I thought it might be fun to inverview myself.  Self will ask the questions and Me will do the answering.  I hope I don’t get too confused.

 

Self… What made you decide or enticed you into working at home on the internet?

Me… Well, I had a background as a fairly good user of computers in a job I had long ago.  I basically hacked my way into management and ended up running an intergrated MainFrame and AutoDialer system for the company.  When they found out I was starting my own (related) business, I got involuntarily resigned.  Unfortunately, that business didn’t take off, so I closed it.

I decided to take on a job as a subcontractor doing tree work, pruning, clearing property, and the like because I loved working outside.  I was tired of working in an office.  Then I got hurt, and my leg hasn’t worked right since.

 

Self… Yeah, but how did you start a Work at Home Business???

Me… I was getting to that.  Since I couldn’t do the physical labor any longer, I decided to fall back on what (I thought) I knew.  I started the same way a lot of others do, I went to the “Take a Survey” route.  That was a joke, I could get credit or free samples for spending an hour taking a stupid survey.  But No Money.

Then I tried all of the other scam programs they have out there.  “Invest in your Future” or “Buy this Book, Guaranteed to Make Millions”.  They all got dropped pretty quick.

Somewhere along the line, I came across an Affiliate Program (that has gone out of business since) and they suggested writing a Blog to Promote their Product.  I tried that, you can go look at my first couple of posts to see what a dismal failure that was.  But, I started to like the Blogging part and continued with that.  I decided to give it a go, to see how far it would take me.

 

Self… What did you do to make money, since that Affiliate you were using failed?

Me… I kept writing about my experiences, and researching other types of programs I might use to secure an income.  I visited other Blogs, went into Forums, Read anything I could find regarding Working at Home on the Internet.  Eventually, after joining in on the Forums and commenting (read asking questions) on Blogs, I got some really good suggestions.

 

Self… Would you like to share some of them?

Me… Sure. Some of the first were for different affiliates, but then I heard about things like AdSense, Commission Junction, Chitika and ClickBank (aff links in sidebar).  I joined all of them and had various amounts of success depending on the Advertiser.

 

Self… Which of them shows the most promise for you?

Me… Well, I know that the old addage is “Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket”, but AdSense has been very good for me.  I have had limited success with the Affiliate links with the others I mentioned, but not much at all on the Ads themselves.  I am looking for new things like sponsors and other type of affiliate programs that are in the Work at Home genre, maybe some books or programs.  Know anyone interested?

 

Self… Finding something new everyday must be difficult, how do you keep things fresh?

Me… It is difficult sometimes, but I try to keep up with what’s going on in the Blogosphere.  Sometimes I see the same thing written about on different Blogs, different voice, same message.  I like to use my own experiences in this endeavor, working at home on the internet (am I using that too much), relating what I have learned.  Good, bad or indifferent.

Sometimes I do run into writers block, I think everyone does.  Then something tickles my fancy, or I have something happen that seems unique and I write about that.

 

Self… How are things going with Miss K’s new Work at Home Business?

Me… Things are progressing slowly, you can follow that adventure in the Working Together (Separately) series in the sidebar.

 

Self… Well, Me, We’ll be following your Working at Home on the Internet Adventure closely.  Thanks for the interview.

Me… No, Thank You, Self.

 

I hope you enjoyed my little jaunt into the world of humor.  Everything in this interview is true, only the names were changed to protect the innocent.  I don’t know if it came off as well as I thought, but it was fun to do.

October 4th, 2006 at 03:49pm | Posted by Joe | Fun, Interviews, Work at Home | 6 reader remarks | Print This Post