Is Internet Marketing A "Job"?

**coreygeer** · #1 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008, 02:01 AM

Me and my room mate (who's G/F is siding with him) says

"IM Is a job"

I say no it's not.. I say a job is defined by:
A boss, set hours, set pay, a set schedule, rules and restrictions.

I say Internet Marketing is a Self Employment Opportunity because whether you make money is entirely up to you. You set your own hours, your own schedule and what not.. but like everything else.. he thinks he is right about everything and is going to argue his point.

What do you think?

**Gogeta** · #2 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008, 02:04 AM

Hell no I make my own rules and work when I choose. I see it as a Self Employment Opportunity also.

**CyberDilemma** · #3 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008, 02:08 AM

It's not a job. It's an adventure, like the Army.

**Stumickel** · #4 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008, 02:10 AM

Internet marketing is a profession or a hobby depending on what the person wishes to do.

The nature of IM is to be a business. There are a few opportunities out there where you can establish an employee to employer relationship, so those particular opportunities can be called jobs. Other than that, it is essentially a sales business and the Internet marketer is a business proprietor.

Now work is another story...

**coreygeer** · #5 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008, 02:33 AM

That's what I was thinking.

**crsk8andsno56** · #6 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008, 02:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CyberDilemma

It's not a job. It's an adventure, like the Army.

How is it anything like the army?
You are 100% controlled in the army.......

**CyberDilemma** · #7 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008, 02:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crsk8andsno56

How is it anything like the army?
You are 100% controlled in the army.......

That was just a reference to the old Army commercial, "It's not a job. It's an adventure." No direct inference was intended.

ifwearner · #8 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008, 02:49 AM

Just say.. fine.. its my job. I can do my job butt naked wherever I want to.. what do you wear to work?

**WhiskerBiscuit** · #9 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008, 02:53 AM

lol, didn't you post before about your dumbass roommate? Smack him upside the head for starting asinine arguments next time.

"job" is such a broad definition, it all comes down to roi where investment equals money/time. When i'm working i'm actually working, not standing around the water cooler bullshitting about some stupid thing that happened over the weekend. That's the one thing that pissed me off most working a 9-5 was losing productivity like that. The normal lazy employee just wants to coast through their dumb little life and be paid too much for what they actually do, then complain about it like they are owed more than that.

America is in for a serious wake up call. I know I'm not the only one that outsources work to more competent people for cheaper rates.

**Prideoflion** · #10 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008, 02:59 AM

lol My Dad Seems To Think It Is.

Personally If You Make Money Doing It, What Does It Matter What You Call It?

This Is America Land Of The Free! Call It What You Want...

**coreygeer** · #11 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008, 03:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhiskerBiscuit

lol, didn't you post before about your dumbass roommate? Smack him upside the head for starting asinine arguments next time.

"job" is such a broad definition, it all comes down to roi where investment equals money/time. When i'm working i'm actually working, not standing around the water cooler bullshitting about some stupid thing that happened over the weekend. That's the one thing that pissed me off most working a 9-5 was losing productivity like that. The normal lazy employee just wants to coast through their dumb little life and be paid too much for what they actually do, then complain about it like they are owed more than that.

America is in for a serious wake up call. I know I'm not the only one that outsources work to more competent people for cheaper rates.

Yes, but I love showing him all the replies I get on here to let him know he's not right about everything. There's a word for them but I forget what you call them.. people who believe they know everything and they honestly believe the words that are coming out of their mouth are 100% correct.

**lowboman** · #12 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008, 03:16 AM

Well it's a business if you use outsource it and are a manager rather than a laborer, it's a self employment opportunity if you answer to no one set your own hours and income, and it's a job if it keeps you just over broke :P