Court from the Keyword Academy posed the question:  Why Do YOU Want To Learn How To Make Money Online?

Here is my story.

I have always had an entrepreneurial spirit and have always been interested in non-traditional ways of earning money.  Unfortunately, I never acted on any of my ideas.  I did what my parents expected of me and went to college and earned a B.A.  I also went on to law school and earned a J.D.

I started working for corporate America and while some may think that this is a good thing, I discovered that I utterly hated it.  I’m not the “yes sir”, “yes ma’am” type.  I absolutely hate being bossed around.   I hated the fact that someone who had half the education than I did was my so called “boss.”  I hated that I had to work 40+ hours a week.  I hated that the top few executives in the corporation make all the big bucks, while all of the real workers at the bottom, were nickeled and dimed. Plus, the work is absolutely BORING!!!

So about 9 years ago, I started exploring ways that I could earn some extra money on the side.  I really needed to build up my savings account.  I tried a few offline opportunities i.e. MLM, but decided that those opportunities were not for me.  That’s when I discovered how to make money with eBay. At first I was only seeking extra money, but I then started toying with the idea of maybe earning all my income online.  I decided that although eBay could amount for a small percentage of my online income, I needed to do something more that would be a little less physically demanding.

This desire became even stronger after I had my son 2 years ago.  Although I have the privilege of working from home a few days a week, on the days that I do have to go into the office, I have to leave the house before 7 a.m. and I don’t get back home until 8:00 p.m.  I have a crazy commute.  That means that on those days, I hardly get to see my son because he tends to fall asleep around 8:00.

Over the years I started learning more about different ways of earning online income.  I came across several forums such as the warrior forum, and digital point forums.  I read countless numbers of blogs; I also spent a ton of money on eBooks, etc…   I would say that I became so obsessed about learning how to make money online, that I didn’t actually put anything that I was learning into action.

That stopped last year.  Last year I finally started taking action.  I built websites, I published content, I submitted tons of articles to EzineArticles.com in an attempt to secure more inbound links, and finally started getting somewhere.  Makes me wonder why I didn’t start taking action earlier.  I guess I’m the type of person who has to analyze everything.

I’m still working  for corporate America, and am pretty far from my goal of earning all my income online, but feel like if I can make it this far, I will succeed.