So I have a new job......

So, a couple weeks ago I apply for a job as a Business Development Manager. I realistically didnt even think i would get a call back, because usually for IT BDM roles they require a fair amount of preious IT experience.

To my shock i was called back, got a first interview, and within four days had a new job. So now i am ofically a "business development manager"; which sounds pretty cool i your ever gonna pickup chicks. Then again the type of women i like usually arent dumb enough to go after a guy just because his jobs sounds like it pays a lot of money.

So i go in for my first day, and i'm greeted by my new boss. Who admittedly is a pretty cool chick. She shows me around, and i discover that the company i am now working for offically only has three people working for it......and I am one of them! I have no idea were i find these midget sized companies, but somehow i seem to atract them.

The office is in Crows Nest, which is a pretty cool area i guess. Except it has no trees or bushes to go and meditate in at lunch. Although the ofice i work in itself is pretty ugly, it somehow smells like mould. I've pondered bringing in a good air freshener, but that would only provide a temporary solution.

Anyways, I am responsible or selling two lines of projects. A top of the range PHP development environment, and another development environment which is used to develop remote applications.

The tragic thing is, these products have no market at all right now. Something which was not explained to me in the interview, along with this our biggest competitor with the PHP product is manufacturer of the product. They dont seem very willing to help us succeed. Again, somethings just arent explained properly in interviews.

In hindsight i'm not sure if i wouldve taken this role. It's good, however i think the probability of making a sale is pretty hard. Especially when the manufacturer is trying to beat you!

Looking back on it, i honestly dont want to be working at this point in my life. I really just would love to get on a jet plane, and dont know when i'll come back again. I could do this with a few more months of savings, but then I will feel pretty bad if i leave after a few months.

Right now, i just wish i could go visit Canada and be with someone that means so much to me. Just another one of the myriad of reasons i wish i was financially free.

webhost reselling

Ok, so i've been a bit quiet lately. Mainly because of deep personal issues i've been having. As much as these challenges have been intense, when i look at them I again wonder "what would happen if i was financially free right now?". Inevitably the answer is something which im not currently doing, which only makes me realise how much greater life would be if i was financially free.

One of the most attractive ideas i've been exposed to lately is the idea of webhost reselling. Essentially you buy hosting in large quantities from a supplier, then you divide that hosting up into smaller chunks and resell it at a profit.

One of the most interesting ones i've seen is websufion reselling; for around 26 pounds per month you supposedly get unlimited bandwidth and webspace. The only problem i see with this is that people that usually say something is unlimited end up being full of it, and sadly from some reviews webfusion appears to be one of those people.

This led me to the next best option, Godaddy. Here, from what i've seen so far they give you everything you need to succeed. Everythign from scripts, good pricing, ad credits, to even a reseller forum. So far they seem the most attractive option to me, so I intend on starting one of these reseller sites soon.

I figure rather than sporadically moving around developing website to website, why not just focus my energy on one project and build it up to a successful level. Webhost reselling seems like a good a project as any to devote myself to.

People seriously make money from this...

It was the Winter of 2007. I had just left my last job out of utter boredom and was looking for something else.

My friend Andre knew that I had always had an interest in becoming a developer, he himself had worked on many Java projects. He mentioned to me how his boss might have some work he needed done, and i said i would be glad to help.

Andre explained to me what he needed done, a website to manage and control download access to files. I say i can do it, even though I have no idea how.

I spend the next few hours browsing the internet, looking for ways to create database driven websites; i stumble upon a website called sitepoint. By a "random" click on a mouse button i stumble into the sitepoint marketplace. There i am welcomed into a new world, a world i had never known existed before.

In this world these people build websites, drive traffic to them and create residual income streams. I had no idea such a thing existed. You hear endlessly people talking about how much money people can make on the internet, but usually these are just network marketing knobs talking themselves up. But this was real, real web developers creating REAL income streams online. I was fascinated, i needed to know more.

On that day, as far as im concerned, a new dimension in investment consciosuness was opened up for me. Now for me to just capitalise on it.