Online Earning … Is it worth your time?

Back then, there was one of my articles titled “why PTR / PTC programs are not always suitable for everyone“. It was addressed to people who considered of joining any “paid to read” or “paid to click” programs, but generally you would have gotten a note about the importance of self organizing, especially about whether these things were worth your time and life. And now, I would like to expand upon the general situation in our life, especially when we talk about … online earning versus offline earning.

I believe most of us have known that Internet is a giant resource of earning money. Just take a look, you will find a lot of blogs with advertisement, business websites, GPT (Get Paid To) programs like paid to read (PTR), paid to click (PTC), paid to search, paid to sign up, paid to post, High Yield Investment Programs (HYIP), online Forex trading, and so on. Internet is a vast area of earning opportunities for those who are seeking for additional earnings, you might have even found some young people who retired from their offline jobs, in order to stay focused on their online earnings.

So I believe some of us, you and I, still have our offline job, whether it is from the company, or informal job, and let’s say it the offline job; and there is something we need to consider when we have put our attention to these areas of online earning versus the offline one. So, here we are talking about standing on two boats at the same time.

I know there are many people who have offline jobs, but still grab the chance of making additional profits from their online experiences. If you happened to visit any forum talking about online money making, something like that, or even forum talking about google adsense or other kind of advertisements for websites, you would find many people among them were still holding their offline jobs. If you have been making friends with some of these people, you would hear the testimonials that either they were trying out the possibilities of online earning, or they were building their ’small kingdom’ of online earning, or they just tried out the chance because they felt they could no longer rely on the offline earning. Some of them have succeeded in the online earning experiences, some others are still trying real hard, and the rests are the new comers.

For most new comers, even few bucks seem like a pile of gold. And I feel the need to alert the new comers:

True, some people really make big bucks, but it is not as easy as you have thought. Everything takes time. You cannot get all things at once.

And don’t forget, there are prices to pay: Your time, your energy, and your mind.

Just think about it. Are you an organized person? If you are not, your life balance is at stake.

I keep reading many complaints on forums that some of their family members started to question their existence in the house. Yes, they are indeed in the house, physically, but their attention is distracted.

• Some people admitted that they had forgotten to do the houseworks.

• Some students admitted they lost their focus on the study.

• Some employees admitted that they had lost their focus on their works for the company.

• Some others complained that they felt the earning was not worth it, compared to the length of time they had sacrificed for the earning from their daily posts on such “paid to post” forums, or from their daily earning on such “paid to read” or “paid to click” or “paid to …” programs.

• Some said that they had joined many get paid to programs, but not all of the programs really worked for them. Some of the programs later didn’t pay them (turned out to be scams), some of the programs had very low earning rates compared to the minimum payouts. Some people also said that the referrals didn’t support them, etc.

So, everything goes back to the basic question for each participant: Is it worth it?

You spent 5 till 8 hours per day on Internet to post on forums (let’s say you join 4 forums, that’s the maximum average people can join and stay focused on), other GPT programs (let’s say maximum 20 sites, that’s the perfect maximum someone could handle), and the earning you got for the day were these:

• around $5 from first forum.
• one other forum limited you to make maximum 20 posts per day (and you got paid $0.03 per post), you tried to make maximum post numbers, so then let’s assume you made $0.60 from this one per day.
• another forum claimed you would earn $0.06 per post after you made more than 300 posts, since you haven’t reached the numbers, you got approximately $0.02 per post. Let’s assume you made 30 posts, then it was around $0.60. Okay, perhaps you got real good topics to talk about, make it 50 posts then, $1 for the day.

• You also joined various PTR / PTC programs, and since you had become the member of almost all PTR / PTC programs scattered around Internet (not to mention the possibilities of getting scammed), mostly you would no longer be able to do the “paid to sign up” part, unless you tried on cheating by creating multiple account on the programs you had joined before, with the risk of getting banned once they found out.
  Let’s say that you did all 20 PTR / PTC programs with various pay rates, you might get approximately 200 clicks per day from all these sites, if all of them gave you 1 cent per click, you got around $2 for that day.
  Let’s say that you were still lucky to get additional $5 (or even $10) from all the sign ups you could make from the sites, since some of you might be International members and usually sign ups were only available for USA, UK, or some certain countries.

• Some of you invested on HYIP, and got scammed later. Let’s assume that you didn’t join it to make the medium / average calculation.

• Let’s assume you were not joining any Forex trading, since not all people had the nerve on this one.

• Let’s say that you didn’t have any earning from your site yet.

So how much you have made for the day? $18? $20? That would be a wow for you must have been lucky enough for making such amount by doing this on your own. How long you have been online for that day? Less than 5 hours? No? If it wasn’t less than 5 hours, then you were just wasting your time for a small buck.

Just forget about your referrals, okay? Not everyone gets good referrals. There are even many participants who don’t have referral at all. We are talking about your own earning, your pure earning.

But how long the times you have spent for the day? The electricity, the Internet usage, your time, your energy, your mind. Was it worth it? Have you still done your offline routines well? Your current study or job? You need to manage your life balance between online versus offline life, or you would only bring trouble upon your own life, especially those of you who already had offline career or you might be some housewives who had to do all the houseworks yourselves.

And later, how long have you waited until they finally paid you? What if some of them later turned out to be scams? Or perhaps, you suddenly got kicked out from the membership and you just didn’t know what kind of term violation you have made. Or, you might have done some mistake accidentally in your participation, and you got infraction. Some certain penalty was really BIG, even would make you end up being suspended and losing the accumulated earning so far.

Unless you had gotten many referrals to boost your earnings up, was it worth it?

Now calculate back all the times and energy you have spent during those days. If you focused on offline earning for such amount of times, how much you should have earned? Which one would have given you better earning? Which one would have given you better sleep? Which one would have given you more time to spend with the family or even for yourself?

Which one would have enabled you to spend less money for the bills?

Which one that still gave you rooms to interact with your neighbors, family, relatives, friends?

Which one still made you feel that you had lived a normal life and full with energy and enthusiasm?

For me, I still believe that 2 till 3 hours per day is the maximum daily limit to spend on Internet. Unless I no longer want to have my current offline job, my resting time, and my offline life.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not money oriented. I also have a hope of making some online earning, but I don’t make my blog for only money. Yes, I put advertisement here, but this is not the main reason of why I finally made this blog. My intention is to provide some tips and sharing about the acts you need to maximize your life. The aim of this blog making includes the benefits for you as the readers, and I as the writer who gets your feedbacks.

I know how it feels like to step on two boats at the same time, and believe me, it is frustrating. And I need to share with you that what works for some people doesn’t always work for the others. So, online earning is good for you if it is worth your time, if it doesn’t, I am not saying that you mustn’t spend your time to try on your online earning experience, but just don’t waste your time too much for something that gives back to you less than you give, your energy, your time, your mind, your efforts. You still have your own way and that doesn’t have to be the same with the other’s way. Just consider all these things for your own sake.

You can’t do everything. You can’t get everything you want either. Hold your greed, hold your impatience towards you earnings. Everything takes time, even a big success starts from a small step. There is no point of joining a lot of this and that, which people claimed giving them a lot, but rather, go to survey all these programs for yourself before you finally join them, read carefully every lenses or guard or watch upon these programs. Find some sites that give you the review upon the programs you consider of. Don’t just start joining them before you are sure that they will be worth for you. And when you start your participation, be wise, don’t just brutally spend your time and efforts, start your earning one step at a time, one day at a time. Remember, you are human that needs rest, sleep, times to interact with the others physically, and you still need the balance for your offline routine, because you exist physically in offline world!

Calculate the time you would have to spend for them, would these things give you better than that one you are working for now? Would these things not isolate you from the others, from your current social networking? Would these things be safe for your current offline schedule and activities?

You judge it. If these things only cause distraction towards your life, your mind and your current work / study, you should have known what you have to do with these things. Don’t just complain it at forum entries, you should make your action.

I wish for your good luck then. And if you care, don’t forget to also spend some times to share your experiences with the others, so they would also learn from your mistakes.

Have a good day, or night.