All Forum Posts by: Amy Van Ollefen

Hi Neil,  Just reading over the other states and cities.  Closer to home for you, would be Salt Lake City, UT.  West Valley City and other areas have a lot to offer.  Great place to do business if you like out door activities?  If you are interested ? Property Management Systems is a turn key operation with everything in place to help you.  You can check out the web site.  Best of luck!

Martin Carstens

Hey J Scott, thanks for the advice! It is good to hear from people who took the plunge.

I'm in basically an entry level position, so it's not like I'd be losing some sort of management role. But I have a once bitten, twice shy attitude because I graduated from undergrad in 2008 hoping to go into finance, and was forced to work selling shoes for 2 years due to the lack of jobs...I'm sure the economy has improved slightly but it scares the hell out of me...I never want to go back to that.

And then there's the issue that going back into this field would essentially kill me on the inside...I don't want to work in an office ever again. If I had to get a job again, some possibilities would be: teach English in Japan or some other foreign country that allows me to experience travel and different cultures, become a firefighter, go back to school for a master's in another subject in a science discipline so it's free, I'm great in any sort of sales role and I wouldn't even have a problem doing something like selling cars, hell even bartending would be more enjoyable than this.

Also regarding the Google algorithms etc, I don't do any SEO for exactly that reason...my traffic is all paid traffic, so I have far more control, and I advertise on affiliate-friendly sources with essentially no compliance guidelines or restrictions of any kind...I focused on these because I thought they would be more long term than continually getting banned from and then defrauding Google, Facebook, etc. like most big affiliates do. I would, however, like to start and monetize a blog, which would be SEO traffic, once I quit and have some more time, since I have a somewhat interesting story.

Alfonso Velazquez very well said sir. Freedom to do as you please whatever day of the week it is. Just finished reading The millionaire fastlane and it talks about freedom now instead of waiting 30-40years of your life in a regular job.