I must admit after what feels like forever without any results in IM, I was starting to question whether I had what it takes to MMOL.
To add to this self doubt, I’m constantly reading stories in forums about 18 year olds who make $10k in a week. Then there is a disturbing amount of people commenting about how easy it is to MMOL in less than 10 days!
After a while it gets depressing reading all these posts, why? Because I’m having a hard time even picking niche markets to get started in.
Anyway, I’ve discovered something far more depressing than half a year of IM failure.
Usually I drive to work however today against my will I had to catch the train. What I saw as I looked across was horrifying.
I saw people that were physically and mentally beaten. You could see the depression and submission in their face. Then there was one guy that really made me stop and think. He was in his 50’s, he had a worn but neat suit, a plain white shirt, a tie from the 80s (a bad one), a lunch bag and a laptop.
“He was for all intensive purposes the perfect portrait of what I don’t want to become”
I name him corporate train man.
Corporate train man has given up. Corporate train man no longer tries. Corporate train man is effectively a slave, and no longer thinks of escape.
In context this made my little IM disappointments seem trivial. Anything I can do to actively try to escape the cubicle and avoid becoming corporate train man is worth the constant failure.
No one wants to end up like corporate train man.
4 Responses to “Thoughts Of Quitting IM A Train Ride And Terrible Sight”
I get the same hair raising feeling when I see old people still in corporate shackles.
May you find the strength to continue to be free.
Oh I’m trying like there is no tomorrow it’s proving to be insanely hard to pick the right method to try mmol. Must be due for a breakthrough soon. Cheers
Hi: I had the same doubts as you, and still do some times. Although I am self-employed in a service business, at night I work on internet marketing. To make a long story short, the web site I developed for my company has had the most success of all of my marketing efforts, generating dozens of leads per month and in the last year tens of thousands in business. Meanwhile, all my attempts at finding niche markets in all kinds of categories yields a few hundred a month. Started on line marketing in 2007.
Hey Big Fish,
Thanks for the comment. It’s interesting to me that your niche markets only do a few hundred a month but your actual business site is working. Makes me think that all these niche work would become so large in numbers it would be almost unmanagable…