How VIPKID Changed My Life
I'm forever thankful to VIPKID and today I'm going to explain to you how it changed my life for the better. VIPKID is an online teaching platform that I worked with as an independent contractor from 2016-2019. They paid $22+ an hour at the time and were my reliable, rent money while I worked on building my websites and YouTube based business.
With VIPKID I was able to work on my own stuff during the mornings and afternoons while living abroad and then teach online 3-4 hours in the evenings. Making an income, I could 100% rely on while I was growing my own business.
Because I was able to free up so much of my time and live in a low-cost area of the world, I was able to achieve escape velocity.
Self-employment secrets no one tells you
The process of becoming self-employed so you never have to have a job again comes with a big secret and that secret is you need to find an "edge" an advantage to leverage to free up your time to work on other things.
Yea, you see a lot online make it seem easy and that they just started a blog and made a ton of money in a few short months or that they were some brave soul that risked it all.
The truth is usually more somewhere in the middle.
Bold and determined
One of my favorite (now defuct) blogs was BoldandDetermined.com. Nick Kelly (who became a millionaire from his website) in a few podcasts revealed how he had success.
He lucked out with landing a lazy insurance job for six months in Texas where he was able to start his blog, have time to write and publish content that ended up laying the foundation of his business.
Then he went to teach in China for one year and by the end of his contract, was making a full-time income from his site. No it was not overnight success, no it was not a straight and narrow process.
But his edge was getting two jobs where he could free up his time.
Create and Go
Other creators like Alex Nerny and Lauren McMannus built their first blogging business called Avacadu.com by quitting their jobs and living at home with Lauren's parents for months on end while working non-stop on this website.
Could you see yourself doing that?
Would your parents be fine with you not working a job, living at home and blogging all day.