There is no doubt that becoming an adult webmaster is exciting. The thought of taking the first tentative steps to a new career, one that could lead you to becoming your own boss, gives every new webmaster a real buzz. There is so much to learn and so much to do. For many webmasters, there is also a separate day job to think about.
Once the first sale comes, there is all that site building you have to do to achieve your second, third and fourth sale. After a couple of sales there is even more research to keep you glued to your monitor. Then there is your day job and only so many hours in a day.
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"The fact is that for most of us the daily grind of turning out sites and selling memberships becomes an unbreakable habit leaving absolutely no room to relax." |
If you want to make money, you have to keep churning out the sites, you have to build up your traffic, you have to learn how to sell and it all takes time. For many new webmasters the need for sleep becomes a nuisance as they push themselves harder and harder to make it to the big time.
It is quite common for new webmasters to use every spare moment of the day to work online. The work that I did before I became a full-time webmaster gave me a very long lunch break. I would take my laptop to work and sit there for several hours building my websites. Then I would go home and spend even more hours working online.
For most new webmasters weekends are close to heaven - two whole uninterrupted days of research and site building. Weekends give new webmasters a faint sniff of what life must be like for those lucky enough to be doing this full-time. In the end, they shut themselves off from the world and work around the clock.
Unfortunately for every webmaster, whether single or married, the working pace may advance your online career, but it will drag you down in other areas. The effects just won't stop with you, eventually flowing on to affect others as well.
Single webmasters who spend all their time working at their day job and then building their porn empire during nights and weekends soon lose contact with their friends. They become isolated and can find it hard to re-establish links with the outside world.
If you think I am exaggerating think back to the last time you changed jobs. Undoubtedly you had good relationships with a number of people that you worked with. After you changed jobs did those relationships continue or did they gradually wither? The same thing applies when you begin your career as an adult webmaster.
For married webmasters, especially those with kids, it can be even worse. Not only do they lose contact with their friends in the real world but they also lose contact with those whose support they need most. Even if your significant other is understanding and supportive you can still lose touch with your children and spend their formative years stuck in front of your computer.
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The excuse that you are just working at establishing your business and everything will be fine once you have reached some unspecified point is really just that, an excuse. The fact is that for most of us the daily grind of turning out sites and selling memberships becomes an unbreakable habit leaving absolutely no room to relax.
Regardless of whether you are a new webmaster or one who has been around from the first day of the Internet, the fact is that if your only focus is the net, you need to stop and take a good look at where your life is going.
You need to take a break, step away from the computer from time to time and become a normal person. Spend just as much time working at your relationships as you do with your web sites. Enjoy the company of other people, have fun with pretty girls who aren't peeling off their clothes and taking loads of cum all over their face.
Spend some time working on your tan rather than your click-thru ratios. Keep up to date with what is happening in the real world rather than the crap your favourite board's resident drama-queen is trying to stir up.
Spend time with your kids; take them to the park or wherever they want to spend some quality time with you. All the money in the world isn't worth shit when you wake up and find your kids have had so little of you when they needed you the most.
Keeping all of the above in check will not only keep in touch with reality and help you maintain things that are vitally important to you but will also help you avoid the staleness that can be associated to your online work. If you are finding it really hard to get away from the computer, take your kids and your wife down to the mall and wander around holding hands. Justify it to yourself as time spent in marketing research if you have to, but whatever excuse you use.just do it!
Being a webmaster does not mean that you have to withdraw from the world and live in a dark room lit only by the light from your monitor. If you want to be successful, you really need to continue living and working on your relationships just as much as you work on becoming a webmaster.