I had been working as a nanny for a great family in Marin County, CA when I started to feel a deep longing for a change in my career path.
I was really seeking God during this time and felt Him waking me early in the mornings and speaking so many things to my heart.
I began to have this vision of working for myself. I wanted my own schedule and my own hours to wake up every morning to do something that I was deeply passionate about…even though I did not know exactly what that was at the time. This was the entrepreneur in me from my early childhood days. 😉
I soon found myself connected with a unique online group of Christian homes school parents that were also entrepreneurs. I connected with the awesome leader of this group and the next things I knew she had me comped into one of the biggest Internet Marketing Seminars in the US (Armand Morin’s Big Seminar) that was to be held in San Francisco.
That event changed my life and my whole way of thinking as to what was possible online.
Mind you, I was not really very “techie” at that time, but when I sat in that conference listening to others who were literally making a great living online writing and teaching about those things that they were most passionate about, I instantly knew that I also could make this happen.
I did not have the knowledge at that time but I did have the drive, determination and passion to figure this new (to me) online world out!
Thus began a huge thirst for new knowledge…
I did invest a lot of time and money in learning everything I could about Internet Marketing.
I continued to work part time at the nanny job for a bit as I poured myself into my new studies. Soon I left the nanny job (on great terms) to work part time for a few different Internet “gurus” that I had met. I figured this would be a great way to learn and acquire the skills that I needed to do this on my own.
It has been a long road and I went on from there to work for a bigger company online for the past 4 years up until losing my job (a business/financial decision on their part) just this past year.
All the time I had been working for them, I really didn’t spend the time that I needed to work on my own projects, but I do not consider it wasted time at all.
I feel that I learned so much doing their customer support and watching the way that they developed and ran their business.
This website is one of several projects that I have in the works currently.
Between you and I, the THIS website community will always be my baby as this topic and you all are the closest to my heart for sure! 😉
