Best Non 9 to 5 Jobs

I was always on the lookout for the best non 9 to 5 jobs. I despised 9 to 5 and knew there had to be something better out there! In my 20’s I met a stuntman and went for it! After 4 years of training, juggling temp jobs and driving taxis, I got my first paid gig on a film called Enduring Love, doubling Rhys Ifans. I thought I’d “made it”!

After that job I went back to my taxi driving and nothing really happened. Since I’d done such a great job I was sure to get more work immediately! Sadly I had a lot to learn and work dried up. Ever heard the saying “If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life”? I’d always had a passion for the martial arts and since I was 19 I had been training in Wing Chun. 20 years later I opened my own school in 2010. However, I didn’t really earn much money from it at the start and it tied me up for when the stunt work came in.

Best Non 9 to 5 Jobs

I was in my late 30’s and working in a builders yard for minimum wage when I realised I needed to make some changes. Some of the best non 9 to 5 jobs I had found, didn’t pay a sustainable wage. The stunt work was too sporadic and my Kung Fu school was failing.

An interest in buying and selling made me some extra money from the internet, in between jobs. See how to start a profitable ebay business. I had tried Forex trading and even a small ebay business having bought an ebook on eBay which taught the strategy I write about. What struck me about the purchase I made though, was to lead me to an even better way of making money – affiliate marketing.

For me, the best non 9 to 5 jobs weren’t really ‘jobs’ at all. They were passions. I was passionate about the things I was doing, but there didn’t seem to be a future in any one of them on its own. After my ebook purchase I realised that the best business model is automated. I had bought a book, paid for it and received it instantly. I wanted to get on the other side of this kind of transaction. The problem was, I didn’t know how.

Best Non 9 to 5 Jobs

The best non 9 to 5 jobs had to be those that I loved doing, since I was going to spend a lot of time doing them. I had worked in so many jobs to fill in around the stunt work that I had become disillusioned. Quitting my HGV job I decided that if I was hating every minute of it, it probably wasn’t the best career path. I put all my effort into learning how to make money from the internet. The stunt work saved my bacon on a number of occasions. Just when I thought my debts were crippling me, a job would come in and rescue me! But it wasn’t a good lifestyle or way to live. Friends were getting married and buying houses, I still was struggling with a so called ‘dream’ career!

The best non 9 to 5 jobs I’ve had are these which I was passionate about. I’ve worked as a TV Extra, a lifeguard, a trampolining coach, a fencing instructor a martial arts instructor a builders labourer, an office worker, a photographic model, an HGV driver a taxi driver and many other low paid day jobs just to fill in. Having a passion or interest at work is what makes it bearable. Doing a job you’re uninterested in, can be hellish if you don’t have a larger plan.

Since I had a passion for making money from the internet, I pursued it. I made zero money for a long time. But I knew that the automation and the global reach of the internet had some huge financial implications. I knew it was a passion worth pursuing for the long term. initially, I tried to sell my own ebooks, but later found a business model known as affiliate marketing.

Best Non 9 to 5 Jobs – Affiliate Marketing

My ebook sales didn’t exist and I realised I had a huge gap in my knowledge. So I joined a number of courses online to learn how to market products. My early success was through selling someone else’s product, not my own. I didn’t sell a single ebook of my own! But once I understood affiliate marketing, I was able to make some headway in selling digital products over the internet.

It was a long time coming before I discovered an online business system and community which would change everything for me. Affiliate marketing is a simple business strategy which can allow anyone to sell other people’s products over the internet. Digital products in particular can pay out 40% of their cost to affiliates. That’s because once the product is created, there’s very little cost involved.

There’s no postage or storage involved and once created, there’s no manufacturing costs. You can sell physical products over the internet too of course, from Amazon for example. But the costs involved considerably reduce the profits available for affiliate marketers.

Affiliate marketing seemed like the perfect option for me to fit around existing work, and an unpredictable timetable. At first, I looked at it as a part time thing I could work around the stunt work. Over time, I realised it had far more potential due to the ability to automate and scale up.

Best Non 9 to 5 Jobs

Affiliate marketing is my top pick of the best non 9 to 5 jobs. I thought being a stuntman couldn’t be beaten, or even being a Martial Arts instructor. But the reality is that it takes years to become proficient at jobs like these. Success with affiliate marketing is something which can be done by anyone, and which has a much shorter timeframe for success. Some people have replaced their jobs within 6 months, and for other it takes much longer. It really depends on your own circumstances and how hard you work at it.

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