How Long To A Living Wage?

A great guestion from Cathy:

“Hi Kelly, I’m a member of Mom Masterminds and have been listening to your podcasts for several months. I know you are a single mom. How long did it take you to get to a full time living wage in wah career?”

I started my first internet effort in early 2002 but I mostly stumbled around bumping into things for the first year.

My first goal in having a home business was to make ends meet.  My day job paycheck wasn’t cutting it and I was $14,000 in debt with little hope for every getting out.

Do you know that I only wanted to make $200 a month?

Oh how small I thought about things back then!

The good report is this:

Between 2002 and September of 2005 – I paid off that $14,000 in old debt!

Then, when I didn’t have to send every spare dollar to some bill collector I realized that I was making quite a bit of money online – more than I had imagined… more than I made at my day job!

So in 2006 I quit the day job and came home full time.  Now I earn more than I have at any other time in my life and enjoy the freedoms that come from being self employed.

I guess the answer then is: Five Years

For some more inspiration:

I blogged over at Work at Home Moms Talk Radio last week and shared about how my residual income has grown over the years.

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