Comments on: Lucky Breaks I’ve Had Along the Road to Earning Online

by: Baby England Kit

Tue, 04 May 2010 16:05:44 +0000

it’s a bit hard to just start traveling and try to do the work a few hours and make money. It may work for a 10% but it won’t work for everybody!

by: Kelsey

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:54:04 +0000

I think this is really an excellent post. I recently wrote a post about how so many travel writers who have done the whole “abandon the corporate world and sell all your stuff to travel” thing don’t realize what a privilege they had to HAVE a well-paying corporate job to quit, and stuff to sell. I think that many, many folks in the travel/lifestyle design arena really don’t ever stop to think of the support they have had over the years. You do, which is one of the reasons I love reading your blog. If you’re interested in that post, it’s over here: http://www.driftingfocus.com/blogs/?p=6436

by: Aluminum Case

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:39:32 +0000

Having supportive friends and family can make entrepreneurship so much easier. I unfortunately was not able to take advantage of living with family while starting my business. So it ended up taking quite a while to get things off the ground as I concurrently worked a full time job. Still their moral support helped give me the confidence that I could make the business work. My parents also helped financially by paying most of my college expenses. If it weren’t for that financial support, I likely would’ve never started a business.

by: storesonline110

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:52:11 +0000

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by: ecommerce300

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:06:59 +0000

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by: Mark

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:57:09 +0000

it takes a very honest person to acknowledge all the support that has made where you are right now possible. kudos for it.

by: Mary

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:23:35 +0000

I really liked that article and this blog post on it. No one makes it alone. Anyone who is successful has someone who helped them along the way and without that help they wouldn’t be where they are. But those people and things that are essential to reaching success are rarely mentioned. So thanks for sharing.

by: Working Nomad

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:53:04 +0000

I too am constantly amazed at how many people tell me how lucky I am!

Yes it might seem like it on the outside, but they dont know how much time you can spend alone working on the web, and the negative that can have on health.

by: Adam

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:06:32 +0000

Yes! It’s hard to pinpoint all the little things in life which can affect your future successes. But they’re there and usually go unspoken.

Kudos to you for speaking up!

by: Neale

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:55:29 +0000

Good find Kirsty, John’s article has a lot of truths in it, and a highlights a lot of truths. I have had assistance in many forms to get where I am today lots of lucky breaks, including free accommodation and much more…

I Like how he also stresses how hard it can be to take the leap & dispose of everything for a life of travel, I have been talking planning for a few years now and have a small residual income “enough to survive” each year though something new crops up LOL

by: Keith

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:56:51 +0000

I haven’t achieved yet what you describe. My wife and I have worked in the corporate world for the last seven years and just recently began saving aggressively for two big changes: a travel writing career for me and a jewelry business for her.

Our parents will be supportive once they hear about the plans, but I’m sure they’ll secretly question the wisdom of leaving lucrative jobs. We are planning to keep our house in the U.S., I will just be on the road a third of year.

It’s a huge risk, but I can’t imagine a more awful series of twilight years if I never took some large risks.

by: Giannis

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:00:37 +0000

At beginning i was traveling like that girl, save money, then travel , damn it, i love traveling a lot. I met a lot of different traveler on the road, who share their a lot of great make money online story with me. Now i am trying to make my life as i want.

by: Lissie

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:00:47 +0000

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me is that my Kiwi mother gave birth to me in the UK giving me - eventually 3 passports (UK, NZ, Australian) - makes it a lot easier when you can get a job legally. It wa a lot tougher for Americans and South Africans in London working illegally than it was for me working legally.

I always used to get the “lucky” thing when travelling long term in 20s and 30s - people forget that its just priorities - skip the house and the kids and see how low your expenses can go!

Its attitude to - more and more as I get older people have more and more excuses as to why they can’t travel - its just fear - but we don’t like to admit that!

by: Rene

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:50:51 +0000

Nope, we’re not all trustafarians and yep, there’s always a story behind travelers and how they got there.

In our case, we worked our butts off for it for 10 long years. Grew a small business, sold it in 2007 to hit the road with our terminally ill dog Jerry, and now we just can’t seem to get the traveling bug out of our system.

Even though we aren’t rich, and still mostly living off savings, we are having a damn good time while trying to grow our newest online web venture. We finally found something we are passionate about, now the only problem is figuring out how to make it generate some real revenue.

Jim and I don’t have family to fall back on, and it’s funny to think that if it wasn’t for our dog, who taught us the secret to having a real life, we’d still be slaving away in our office.

by: Audrey

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:31:33 +0000

I really enjoyed John’s article as well. While we get annoyed when people always tell us how “lucky” we are to take a journey like ours (as if we woke up one day with savings in a bank account and clients lined up), we do realize how fortunate we are in many ways. We are both healthy with supportive family and friends. Our parents are also still doing well. We started our careers in the offline work and have a whole slew of professional experiences that I believe help us in the online world.