Back In The Good Ole Days…
My first web site, Australia’s Careers Online, was launched in July of 1995, while I was in my final stint of a 16 year long career as a High School Careers Adviser.
This web site was based on my (self) published “Ideas for Careers” teaching masters which had been sold to Aussie schools for the previous 4 years.
Careers OnLine was the very first Australian based career information web site to be launched on the Internet.
Seriously 
It was “serious” enough for me to resign from teaching in November 1995, to begin my new full-time career of self-employment.
Back in ‘95 I intended to make a living by selling “space” at what was going to be a “virtual careers fair”. However, 1995/96 was very early days for the Internet, and there was a LOT of doubt and uncertainty about the ‘net as an advertising medium.
It was a hard sell, with little actual reward (financially).
And that meant I had to look further afield to get “work”.
Fast forward to now…
Today Careers OnLine still serves 80,000+ visitors every month of the year and pays its way through Adsense and affiliate earnings.
I think it’s pretty incredible that I’ve been able to help that many people every month through the Internet! I mean… at current rates, that’s almost 1,000,000 people a year!
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