About Your Career Change Advisor

Hi! My name is Paul and I am a mid-career changer, married with three children, residing in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. My own struggle for pursuing a perfect career inspired me, career change advisor, to build this website.

I have always had good positions with my employers, but at my late thirty I began to find it difficult to enjoy my job and badly wanted a new career.

Unfortunately, financial security, social status and any other humanly possible reasons held me back from making a career move. I did take no action until I was at my early forty. To make matters worse, the career change idea faced serious objections from my wife.

How could a person with a good career and a generous financial reward want a new, uncertain career? Those who knew my plan discouraged me to go with it. There was almost no support for the idea. Should I keep the job or should I find another one?

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My Career Change Journey

Early in 2002 I talked to my wife, I needed a way out. Using many career tests and self assessments I discovered my passion was all about entrepreneurship. In fact, it revealed my admiration to the big name of entrepreneurs and their unique personalities.

Another influential thought was the idea of "knowledge worker" of Peter Drucker -- probably the greatest management guru of the 20th century. I wasn't sure when he predicted that knowledge workers would become a trend. But what inspired me was that the knowledge workers could work anytime and anywhere in the world.   

The idea of pursuing an entrepreneur career and having the lifestyle of a knowledge worker was my starting point. This was not an easy discovery as for years I hadn't realized my real strengths. It was actually an "eureka" moment when I had almost given up and decided to stay with my last job.

In November 2002 I began searching for a side business to start. Since I had to work long and unpredictable working hours, I scheduled my weekend for writing a business plan draft. I called it a draft because I actually had no idea about the business to start.

As my passion is entrepreneurship, at first I wanted to publish a magazine catering to entrepreneurs. But I quickly realized that it would need a huge investment upfront and I wouldn't be earning a living as a publisher any time soon.

From various resources I finally got an online business idea, which I could pursue as a side business. I thought the Internet was the perfect place for knowledge workers. And even though I knew nothing about online business I started my online career while I was still employed.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

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My New Online Career

You may be wondering how I pursued my online career. I'll show you how I'm doing it.

I stumbled upon SBI while searching for a good business idea. SBI or "Site Build It" helps me build a lucrative online business. I knew this product from Make Your Site Sell e-book (last time I bought it for $17 but now it's available for free) and kept hearing the buzz surrounding it so I decided to try it out.

I started the very website you are on right now in August 2003, when I relatively knew nothing about the Internet and web publishing. However, early the next year it started to make money.

SBI had helped prepare me to build a profitable business, before I jumped into building my site. As a beginner, my learning curve was shorter. This video tour shows you the whole concept and how it works. Or, get answers to your questions about SBI here.

SBI has surely changed my life. In December 2005, when my online income reached my monthly income target and I had sufficient savings to cover more than twelve months of my family's monthly expenses, I said goodbye to my boss and quitted my executive job.

So, what are you waiting for?

Try SBI because if I can do this, you can too!

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
- Mark Twain 

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