The current recession has made it evident that even a “secure” job isn’t that secure at all. Personally, I haven’t really had any other jobs than temporary ones. And this in spite of having a Ph.D.

The reason is that in Academia you seldom get a secure position until you become a Professor; otherwise most jobs are temporary. I never reached as far as to those pinnacles of achievment. Once I had a fellowship that enabled me to spend two years working at one of the most prestigious ivy-league universities in the United States — but that was as far as I got.

Even back then I was actually fed up with Academia, and secretly dreamed of being in my own business. I thought about maybe getting a degree in Business Administration but that didn’t inspire me at all.

Let’s face it — if you have spent many precious years of your life getting a higher education, then the thought of going back to school again is, well, more like a nightmare. The thing is during one period I even had a nightmare: I was back in High School again — and that awful dream kept coming back! Not too pleasant, I’ll tell you. It felt more like something from the “Groundhog Day” movie, where one day endlessly keeps repeating itself.

OK, I did at least manage to get out of Academia and get myself a job — in a small fledgling Biotech company. For once I liked my bosses — now things began to look quite promising. Unfortunately this came crashing down a year later. The company went bankrupt, and I no longer had a job.

My ex-bosses were nice people but they didn’t know how to run a company. They had spent money recklessly on fancy offices and such, oblivious to any warnings.

And now what? Well, I was frantically trying to find some business opportunity, something to get me going fast. For several reasons, I had no other options. Now I wanted a work from home business. I was totally fed up with spending my days in some office, having to deal with office politics and so on.

Luckily, I had an Internet connection and I had been playing around with HTML coding. Plus I was well aware of the possibilities of selling things on the Web.

Now I had the good fortune of reading an ebook about how to make money as an affiliate — by marketing other people’s products and services. This particular ebook, by Rosalyn Gardner, is nowadays rather outdated, since the Internet changes so fast. A couple of years back, I’d say it was a useful course.

Using that information I was soon able to make some decent money as affiliate for web hosting companies. Finally, I was able to work from home online and set my own hours. This is my idea of freedom! At this time I have a whole bunch of blogs and web sites — one of the blogs is dBusinessOpportunity.com.

Summing up: in case you are one of the many people who are searcing for a business opportunity online, then I suggest you take a look at affiliate promotion. You can choose from an astronomical number of things to promote.

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