ON SENSE to take care of ourselves, because he isn't going to, Michael Hiles isn't going to, Steven Wagenheim isn't going to, Ewen Chia isn't going to. Only we can take care of us.
AND THAT, my friend, is something that should be inherently understood.
HOWEVER, too many lazy, lazy people think this is a pajamas business, that they don't understand what really working on this means. They think these people and their'magic systems' are the end-all and they'll be making millions by next week, be the envy of all their friends, etc.
This post wasn't really directed to that group.  WE don't.
Not to say there aren't clueless people in this particular thread who don't read the original post, but they're gone by the wayside anyways. If they don't pay attention, they're not getting his message, and frankly, it wasn't really to them, then, was it?
That's one of the biggest reasons I'm for health care reform, even a single-payer system like Canada.
How many great business ideas never got wings because their originators were too afraid to go without health insurance? I bet it amounts to many billions of dollars worth a year.
Pretending to quit and giving IM a shot? I'm all for it. Really quitting before generating a steady online income? You'd have to be nuts.
One other thing. Aside from being responsible for quarterly income tax, you are also responsible for Social Security tax. When you are self-employed, you are responsible for both your contribution and the employer side contribution. The rate is 15.3%. This is in addition to income tax. Those of you who have been making money know what I'm talking about, but it usually comes as a shock to newbie entrepreneurs. See ssa. gov/pubs/10022. html If you try to get around this with a corporation or S corp, there are a bunch of other snafus as well, not to mention a lawyer to help you execute it.
Making money on the internet isn't really that hard. If you have a clear plan of what you really wanna do then you won't get distracted and lost in the pile of IM products and methods.
Yup, it's just that simple. Avoid distractions and it won't even take you a month to start making money online.
How can you not show up for work for a whole month? That's gonna be a long cold/holiday/whatever... They will get suspicious.
lol, George I was about to correct your spelling, which I thought was strange considering its you, then I realised "2 wrights don't make a wrong"..... doh me lol.
Also want to add I completly agree, but you should only do this job quitting test if you have a good or even decent plan to follow, otherwise your just setting yourself up for a fall.
A while back I fell for a very common newbie mistake and that was "putting all your eggs in one basket". I stated a system and it went really well and I was doing £1500 - £2000 per week (£GBP), all was great untill...... over night the system changed and I went to £00000!

I say the idea is very plausible and really works for some people inlcuding me but make sure you have a good system to follow and spread your risk if the system is unproved in anyway.
I would never quit my job to do something online full time.
Of course not. Especially when you're making.....
--$3345.17-- in Less Than 30 Days - $0.01 per Unique Visitor- Can You Handle The Cash/Traffic???
But if I do it full time, I might make more!
Wait, I still have a job?
What do you mean I most likely don't have any idea how to use my own system?
Of course I make money, but why quit a job?
No I'm not just trying to get peoples money. That's silly.
I would never tell anyone to quit their job to make money online because it takes a lot of time, energy and effort for most people to make enough money online to support themselves.
But I do agree that if you have some benefit time, where you will still be getting paid, it can't hurt to take that time to focus on your start but I wouldn't quit until I was making enough money consistently. That wouldn't be smart unless someone is going to support you in the meantime - and in the meantime can mean a month or a year, or even more in some people's cases. Everyone varies on how fast or how slow they will start making money, and keep making it.
What I did was work online part-time while I still worked my day job. Once I was well enough established to make a full-time living from it, then I said KISS A$$ to a day job and that was about, well geez now that I think about it, I guess 5 years ago! I would never go back to a day job...unless something terrible happened where I couldn't make money online anymore for some reason of course.
Great story though!
Being your own boss and working from home is a dream come true! I was working full time and felt that I was just working for the sake of paying off my bills. Until I came across internet marketing! Yes I did leave my full time job but went part time until I made a break throw in internet marketing.
@George - This is a good idea taking a "pretend quitting" to work solely on IM and try your hand. I would be surprised if even a month off would be enough time given the common newbie information overload... but that is where something like the 30 day challenge could come in I suppose. Working IM concurrently with a job is a great way to go.
Some of us just hate jobs with a passion, due to the micro management, sterility of the whole situation, constant struggle/grind day after day and non linear paths to upward mobility. Let's face it, many times if someone is GOOD at their job, does a boss really want to promote them? If they did.. then a replacement for YOU would have to be found. Instead jobs usually take the mediocre worker who is buddies with everyone and less dynamic and promote them into management. Can one stay with a job these days until retirement and get a cushy pension on which to retire? Not likely.
Again this is my personal experience, with two college degrees and 30+ jobs later, jobs aren't for me. I do sometimes take them for a few months out of the year to help with cash flow until they are no longer needed. Even in this economy after a few months of searching I scored a decent $30k year job, with the potential to double my salary within months... so I'll ride it out and keep padding my "emergency fund", which I'm trying to get up to 1 year's worth of living expenses.
And as per constant contact with people and socialization... I'd way rather stay home and not have to utter a single word the whole day and just work on the computer morning til night. Although per my niche, I do get to set up vending tables/booths at various events and have interaction. Again, perhaps this is my biased, sort of negative view towards jobs from my experience only, I've seen others have a much more positive experience. I'm single (well sort of), no kids, 35, 1 family member that lives far away, no pets... so it's easier for me to do IM full time than someone with all of the above... then I can completely understand being a lot more careful with quitting a job when others depend on you.
I agree 100%. There are so many excess items laying around that could be turned into cash to fund a venture. I've sold all of those non necessary things also and don't even have TV, it just sits there until I watch a dvd occassionally. I keep a piece of paper in my wallet with columns for expenses/income/notes and write down every penny I spend.. this greatly helps always know where you are, and can do proper planning and also see if you wasting too much $$ on anything. That is such a smart move clearing all of your debts ramone_johnny. I drive a 20 year old car, no debts except a 2nd college loan which isn't going away any time soon. Usually if your going against the flow and running the opposite direction of everyone else.. your on the right track, so your far from mad!
I love the idea that you have laid out "quit" for a week--take a vacation--and work your passion. I did the opposite--I worked my day job and worked my passion for 6 years until the day I finally said "I quit effectively immediately" after 17 1/2 years.
It's not that I was making millions--it's that I was making enough to quit--and that gave me more time to work on my passion.
In other words; I finally gave myself permission to quit!
George - what timing. Today is Sunday, the end of a week of vacation I took off of work to decide if I could pursue IM full time or not.
I have a very nice, very desirable job with excellent benefits. I HATE it.  I started learning IM a year ago. I'm still learning. After 6 months of working hard but spinning my wheels, I finally found some traction and my income started growing. I do have a couple of models that work for me and which I can expand.
I'm also the sole breadwinner for a family of 5. Any