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From Totally Broke to $14,000 a Month Working from Home🤑

I failed at making money online MORE TIMES than I can count. So how did I wind up here, paying myself $14,000 a month working from home? #workfromhome #makemoneyonline #workfromhomemoms #makemoney #workforyourself #workfromhometips

By Annabelle JohnsonPublished 4 years ago • 3 min read
YUP THIS WAS ME GUYS😔

I failed at making money online MORE TIMES than I can count. So how did I wind up here, paying myself $14,000 a month working from home?

YUP OVERNIGHT GUYS🤑

But they don’t really describe the parts in between, which leaves the rest of us wondering why WE couldn’t *magically* pull off the exact same thing.

It’s like some “mystical secret”…How did they get from one end to the other?

Well, as someone who literally went from broke to paying myself $14,000 a month in the last five years, I’m gonna TELL YOU what those in-between parts look like…

All the money that went through my personal account in the last year ⬆️ This number reflects the PAYCHECKS my online business sends me every month. I only have one income stream, and it’s my business.

Here’s how I went from totally broke, struggling to pay for a loaf of bread, to making more money than I’d ever seen in my life.

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I did it all by working from home, but I didn’t start that way.

So, I actually tried to start four businesses before I got to the point where I was successful working for myself.

Yup — I failed four times in rapid succession before I ever saw any success.

Now, some of those businesses were more successful than others, it just so happened that I was working 80 hours a week for like $200, so they weren’t sustainable.

And that was my problem: I could either create a business that wasn’t getting enough customers… OR make a business that was WORKING, but not paying me enough for my time.

In the meantime, I had bills to pay. So I couldn’t mess around forever.

Because I found it really difficult to work for myself, I basically gave up and started working a conventional job.

My work-for-myself experiment failed and I was begrudgingly ready to accept that.

Giving up on working from home…

So I hated working in an office, but suffering through it seemed simpler than figuring out how to work for myself.

Basically, I had failed a bunch of times and I was feeling really sensitive about it.

I was convinced that working for yourself was TOO TRICKY and I was pretty sure that I just wasn’t smart enough — or patient enough — to make it happen.

Meanwhile, I was taking jobs, and because I was in the tech sector, I was constantly getting replaced by an agency or software… Not to mention these jobs were, um….*HELLA boring*.

I mean, honestly, there’s really nothing interesting about being controlled for eight hours a day by somebody who doesn’t know what they’re doing…

…And is telling you to “just do something” to fill the day…(gross)

Hitting the Misery Wall…

Within 5 years of taking an office job, I found myself in the worst one of all.

This particular job was verbally abusive: I was getting yelled at DAILY over things I couldn’t control.

🚫 Expectations were completely unrealistic.

🚫 My boss didn’t understand the department she ran.

🚫 I was being asked to do some legally shady things.

🤢 I was being treated like a secretary by my male counterpart, who was supposed to be training me… But was instead using me to do all his work AND mine.

🤢 I was also being paid significantly less than my male counterpart, who was out buying Teslas and showing off his cashmere socks.

That same weekend: Cut to me begging my husband for $4 at the grocery store because I didn’t have enough in my checking account to pay for groceries.

🤮 Oh, and that male counterpart was also taking all of my commissions because apparently, it’s really easy to take advantage of a brand new employee who you’re training.

I had to get to my most intense level of misery to FEEL brave enough to try working for myself again.

I was riding high and completely shocked at my results. I worked harder than ever because I thought that was the only way to “earn” my success.

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About the Creator

Annabelle Johnson

Am A Specialist With A Decade Of Successful Experience In Hiring And Employee Management Am Also A Mentor Join My Team

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