It took me a long time to get where I am today, but I always knew I would get here.
I literally tried it all.. affiliate marketing, selling on Azon, Clixbnk, eBay,
blogging for Adsense clicks, distributing referral codes, selling my
design services on sites like Fiverr and Elance, and while I will admit
that I did have some big 'wins' and surges of cash, it never ever lasted.
During
this time I was also working for a print shop doing everything from
graphic design to pre-press to operating a manual printing press. And
while I enjoyed that I just could never get past the fact that I was working for someone else.
One day, everything changed.
I was planning to go to Nepal for a month to visit my dad (he runs a
resort & yoga retreat in Pokhara) and I was so beyond nervous to ask
my boss for the time off. I knew I would be asking for more than the
two weeks I was allowed and
I wasn't really willing to take no for an answer. So do you know what I did? I bought my ticket to Nepal, and decided
either I was going to get the time off or I was going to quit.
I worked in the Hindu Kush the extension to the Himalayas read about my adventures here,
& here.
Yes, I was there, in... the most severe winter to hit southwest Asia in decades has cost
hundreds of lives in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan. Heavy snow
had continued to fall over the Himalaya Mountains in both
Indian-administered and Pakistan-administered Kashmir and in the Hindu
Kush of Afghanistan. As the above image shows, both mountains and
valleys are buried in snow across the region, with the exception of the
Indus River valley in Pakistan. The snow has isolated many communities,
stranding them without access to food supplies. Most of the deaths,
however, have occurred as people have been trapped under avalanches in
the steep mountains.
But, I digress...
Snow in Hindu Kush
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Long story short,
he actually gave me the time off (AND offered me a position in sales
because I was so persuasive, LOL!) but I eventually quit anyway.
I was never as happy as I knew I would be, working for myself full-time.
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