I'm Not Here to Get Rich Quick!

Just the other day, my parents found out about my venture here at WA and this is what they had to say about it:

Dad: Why are you wasting money on doing an online business when you don't have a business degree?

Mum: Yeah amaiya (in place of my name). If you wanted to study business you should've said so.

Me: I like my major and I'm doing this business beacuse I see a future where I am involved with it. I don't know how much involved but I want to be in control of my independence.

Mum: Then why don't you wait until you finish your degree and get a real job

Me: I could do that. Or I could take advantage of the information I have in hand and do something with it instead of "waiting for the right time".

Dad: But you're not making any money.

Me: Of course not! You think I could make money in just 10 days?!

Premise

The day that my parents shipped me off to New Zealand to relieve financial strains on the family piggy bank, I vowed I would do whatever it takes to never be reliant on them again.

Coming to NZ was incredibly hard for the first few weeks. I missed Singapore very much and I knew no one here.

Worst of all, all my plans for university in Singapore all grind to a halt. All the friends I promised to hang with when term started and the new people I was planning to meet at the orientations were all gone in an instant.

If only I had been a bit more ambitious and did something with my time, then I wouldn't be away from everyone.

Granted I would meet new people but that isn't the point I'm trying to make here.

My Vow

I promised that by the time I turned 22, I would be financially independent from my parents.

As such, I am constantly posting content and improving my website every single day.

Am I making money yet?

Of course not! I don't have enough content and traffic to do that yet. I need to make a lot more posts.

How many?

I'm aiming for around 25 to 30 posts before I see any money making potential and that's just the start.

Don't Expect to Get Rich Quick

I've already been fooled with that once and I've lost a lot of money as a result.

Making mistakes like that doesn't make me more foolish than I am now but I will be incredibly stupid if I expect that to happen here.

I expect some profit to be made in around 6 months of doing this but I predict it won't be like a four figures kind of thing. Great if it is! But most probably not.

I have hope though that my long term goal of being independent from my parents would come to fruition but I will still have to depend on them for the time being, and that means to follow their whims and fancy whether I like it or not.

I may be packed up and shipped again to another country for some other weird reason but I have to grit my teeth and bear it for a while.

My goal is within my reach, I just have to always remember that it will take time.