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If the Average Person with a 9-to-5 Did This For a Year, They’d Make Money on the Internet

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Eve Arnold
Practice in Public
5 min readJan 16, 2025

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It’s a shame.

Most people think working a 9-to-5 means they can’t build something for themselves. They think they can't be an entrepreneur because they work a day job.

People put themselves in boxes — I’m not sure why.

The consensus is that if you work 9-to-5, you must quit your day job to build something online. In my opinion, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

You don’t need to be ‘special’ or have 10 hours a day to work on your thing. You can work 9-to-5 and build on the internet and make a success of both areas of life.

Here’s how.

Belief through proof

I didn’t believe it could happen to me.

Of course, I hoped it would. I spent days thinking about it, that maybe one day I’d make a small amount on the internet, maybe enough to pay some bills or maybe a takeaway each month.

It started small, I remember in maybe the second month I made $70.

I was blown away.

I couldn’t believe that I’d made actual money on the internet. That first $70 was evidence. For the first time in my…

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