Hello,
and nice to meet you, I know we need to shake hands now and smile one
to
the other but I believe that it still is very hard to do through the
net.
So just imagine that I’m smiling at you, you can look at my photo and
it
may seem that I’m really smiling at you.
My name is Valeria Levinson,
and as you
can see in the photo, I’m quite young. To be exact I’m only 20 years
old.
In some countries I still don’t even considered as an adult, but I
don’t
believe it is a disadvantage. I believe that it doesn’t matter how old
is the person. If he will set his mind about something and really will
do anything to achieve his goal, there is no thing in the whole world
that
can stop him.
But the person shouldn’t
only dream about
things he desires, because the dream can die or change many times. But
become a goal, be written on a paper and be given to someone for
carrying.
And now you’ll be embarrassed not to achieve this goal. Just make sure
that the goal is logical, imagine it to yourself, pick a date when you
want to achieve and write to yourself the actions you need to proceed
in
order to achieve this goal.
Don’t think it will never
happen to you,
because I can proudly say it is happened to me. My story begins in the
year 2000. I was just finishing high-school, working in a sports shop
and
just having a good time with my friends when my mother came to me with
an idea. She told me that we can earn money thought the web. I was
familiar
with the net since 1996 and told my mother, who in fact didn’t even
know
where to turn on the computer, that it is a crazy fantasy. I said it
because
I didn’t meet anyone who even got a dollar through the net. So I
continued
working at my store in the shopping centre, but my mother for my big
surprise
spent a lot of time in front of the computer, which was very unusual.
When I turned 18 I was already
running
the sport’s store, planning to go to the university, and had no
specific
plan for my future. My mother had a few chances try to convince me to
see
the perspective of the net, but still I refused. I liked my job, it was
easy and fun. I opened the store at 10 am and finished working by 4-5
pm.
It was an ideal work until began a crisis in Israel. First people
stopped
visiting the shopping centre and finally they stopped buying. And when
it happened I found myself out of job.
While I was using the lawyers
service
in order to get the salary I was luck of. My mother opened seven
businesses
through the net and began to see the results. It was when I realized
that
this sphere is very progressive now. I stopped and asked myself: is
there
anything I’d like to do with my life, where I can get enough, not to
bother
about money, not working 10 hours a day and enjoy that work every
day?
In the position which Israel
was living
it was impossible everything was going down. Businesses being
bankrupted,
people been fired, the economy was in a deep hole from which they still
can’t find a way out. That’s when I made my mind and started my
education
of e-commerce.
Now I’m a marketing manager
in the institute
of e-commerce in Israel. I’m on the managing board and having my own
internet
businesses. I enjoy teaching people who are interested in getting a new
profession or opening a new business on the net. And offer my
consulting
skills and knowledge of the net to firms and individuals who are
interested
in a internet project or upgrading an existing one.
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