So, what’s the alternative to a 9 to 5 job? How can you Escape9toFive life? Back in the 90’s I met a stuntman and decided that was my ticket to escape the drudgery of a 9 to 5 job! See my post how to become a stuntman. But not everyone wants to become a stuntman and if you’re knocking on in years, perhaps it’s a little late to go after your dream job anyway?! If you have a family and mortgage, you need money now, not after several years of training for another career! Plus, you can’t quit your job if you desperately need the money!

Even in a dream job as a stuntman there comes a time when you want out! I grew tired of the job insecurity! I never knew from one month to the next how I’d pay my rent! So during the course of planning my escape, I looked at various ways to earn a living without being a 9 to 5 slave!
Alternative To A 9 To 5 Job – The Internet
The internet is one of the biggest opportunities available for anyone prepared to use it to make money. I tried various ways to earn online. These included Forex marketing, eBay (buying and selling) and a number of different ideas before finally finding a strategy that worked for me. There’s so many ways to earn online and you can choose from print on demand, direct publishing, Etsy and eBay and selling other people’s products through affiliate marketing.
For me, the best opportunity is affiliate marketing and it’s one of the simplest ways to earn online. With affiliate marketing you sell other people’s products through your own affiliate link. By selling products and services online, you can escape the 9 to 5 by replacing your income through online commissions. The internet is a multi trillion dollar industry and every single day millions of people make online purchases.
As an affiliate marketer, you only need to get involved in an online transaction in order to benefit from this trend. Affiliates are essentially third party sales people who refer sales online. They don’t need to produce any products or services of their own. They only need to promote products through their affiliate link.
Why Online Selling Beats 9 To 5

Of course it takes some time to get an online business up and running. The main skill to learn is marketing. Affiliates promote and “market” other people’s products online. When they make a sale, they earn a commission based on the referral.
Initially as a beginner there’s a few things to learn. You need to set up a website and a marketing “machine” to sell a certain product or service. But once set up, you can automate the sale of products using a marketing “engine” – an advertising platform which drives sales of your products.
This beats a regular job hands down once it’s up and running because you can quickly outrun an employment income through the sale of products and services online. With a regular job, you must trade your time week after week, month after month, year after year. If you stop turning up to a job, you stop getting paid!
However, with online products and services, you can set up systems which automate the sale and delivery of products. You don’t need to handle products personally or even talk to any customers.
What To Sell?
With affiliate marketing you can sell almost anything you can find online. So long as it has an affiliate program, you can earn money through its sale. Amazon is one of the most popular affiliate marketing platforms where you can earn between 1% and 10% commission on anything you sell. However, it’s not the best place to start out as an affiliate because there are much more lucrative products you can sell. Digital products, for example pay much more, some even paying out 40% commission on a sale.
High ticket products pay larger commissions than most small value items too and certain products carry subscriptions, which pay affiliates recurring commissions. The best products to sell are those which offer the best value for customers and which carry multiple opportunities for getting paid. These are often training and education programs which help people the most. Business related products too, such as tools needed for business are a good thing to promote, especially when they carry recurring commissions and are vital for businesses to operate.
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