How I Make Over $7,500 a Month Online with 2 Income Streams When I Started with Nothing
By: Jon Brosio
Tags: Writing, Digital Marketing, Money, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

Have you had those few select moments or days where you realized your life took on a different path?

Maybe when it happened — you couldn't see it, but now that the dust has settled, you know that that moment or those few hours were the pivot that would send you on a different life course.

I know I've had my particular moment like that.

It was May of 2015.

I had recently celebrated two years at the internet-based company I was working for. The celebration was felt with a somber note — at least internally for me. I didn't really care for what I was doing at the time. You see, I was a salesperson. I was calling auto dealerships and trying to sell our SaaS product to them.

I knew I wasn't feeling fulfilled.

I would show up at 9:06 am or 9:10 am because a few minutes being late didn't mean much

I would open up my outlook calendar and roll my eyes at the pointless meetings I had with other teams (at least I thought they were pointless).

I would make cups of coffee in the common area. The coffee was crap — I had no intention of even drinking it — I just wanted to get away from my desk for a minute or two.

I would make fake calls to dealerships who I knew wouldn't pick up the phone — just so I could make my monthly call quota.

I hated it.

Near the end of that month, I was called into my boss's boss's office where I was put in front of a disciplinary tribunal.

They had me dead to rights.

They had printed out a quarter-inch stack of papers that tracked all of the fake calls I made.

I was cornered.

They wanted to know what was up. They told me that if I signed a PIP plan (performance improvement plan) then after 30 days we could forget this ever happened and get back to "normal."

I'm no one's puppet.

I flipped through the papers — trying to find extra time to come up with an excuse that would save my ass. I had nothing.

I handed the packet back to them and said,

"I can't sign this — in 31 days we'll be having this same conversation again."

Needless to say — I was released from my position a few moments after that. They didn't even give me a two-week exit. I mean I got paid two weeks worth severance, but they wanted my toxic ass out the door.

In all attempts to not be cliché — it was one of the most important moments of my life.

It made me realize that I couldn't work for at a job feeling unfulfilled, working for someone I didn't respect, and making wages I felt I was underpaid for.

That moment started the next 5-year journey that helped me get to the place I am now:

I work for myself

I write about and create things that bring me meaning

I make a living I'm proud of

It all didn't come easy — in fact, there were days I wanted to pack everything up, curl into a ball cry and beg for my mommy. I'm not ashamed to admit that.

What I'm going to write about is what I had to do in that journey in order to get where I am today. I want to share this story and offer these gifts of knowledge to anyone who understands these feelings and wants more for themselves.

So here goes…