From: Joseph Jobst <joseph@linz1.net>
Subject: story of a successful survival.

Bogdan,

This is not a success story as commonly intended, it's
a story of a successful survival.

I am a 52 year old graduated architect and phyisicist, grown up
in a poor family living in a very rural region. In the need of
financing my studies I started my first business in 1970
designing small business buildings.

When I perceived that this kind of craft was definitely not the
job I would become happy with, and when I found out that my
proclivity towards marketing and selling was increasing I started
a company distributing special kinds of building materials.

In 1981, the construction market weaked, I sold 50% of my
company's shares and diversified by buying a 53%-stake in a
computer repair shop. Year after year I invested in small companies
of very different industries (software, foodstuff, roofing,
property management, advertising agency, media consulting,
global trade).

I worked 12 hours a day - 7 days a week, finally I owned
6 companies in full, and 53% to 75% in 5 other companies, I was
supervising and managing 11 companies with a total of 300+ employees...

....until 1992:

I had two cardiac infarctions, got a heart transplant, and on
top of that got taken by struma cancer.
Staying 17 consecutive months in hospitals and sanatoria I
"lost" some of my companies taken over by my then "friends"
and "partners".
Expecting the end of my life and worried about my wife's and
my son's future I sold 95% of all my companies' shares.

Life in hospital was unspeakable boring and depressing -
especially to a former work-aholic like me - till the day my
son brought me his laptop!
I started surfing the Internet immediately in the hospital,
some days later I attended an online course on html and
Perl scripting.

I felt in love with this new media, and fortunately,
I recovered far better than expected!
BUT, once the cancer seems to be under control and the doctors
promised me another 3 to 5 years more to live, an intervertebral
disk damaged and I was partially paralyzed!

But, I never lost my optimism and positive thinking all the
time, and my family looked after me solicitously. The great
support of my beloved ones together with my tremendous will to
survive induced me to start an Internet business!

I decided to offer webdesign and webhosting, bought my first
server in March 1994, installed it close to my bed and started
promotion by calling my former business fellows.

Two months later I hired my first programmer -
today I'm giving work to 7 full time, and 12 part time employees...

I've made, and I make my living on the Net!

Why?

My paralyze is a rest of hemiplegia, I can work from home
comfortably. First I started working from my bedroom, then I
converted my son's room (he was moved to his own appartment)
into an office room. In March 1997 my employees moved to our
new office half a mile away. I'm online connected to my employees,
and they are visiting me twice a day, day by day.
My employees are aged between 19 to 33 years, they are my
"childrens" and together we're a big family.

I learned "Give first - then take" in my poor-of-money but
rich-of-love childhood, and found this same motive on the
Internet in 1994. Unfortunately, the more people accessing the
Net the more of this leading idea is getting lost.

The first two sentences of our company's mission are -

"We fight SPAM! We don't like MLM,
we hate people taking others for a ride.
We fight fraud on the Internet.
We are living in trust and honestness."

"The more scamsters, swindlers, cheats, crooks, and all other
fraudulent get-rich-quick would-be business-people appearing on
the Web, the more we must be honest, reliable, serious, solid...,
to stay ahead of them."

Living this mission we've built confidence and trust; our loyal
and faithful customers' word of mouth promotion has brought -
and is still bringing in - steadily increasing number of new clients.

It's so easy to make a living on the Internet!

Joseph Jobst
Founder, President & CEO
josconNetworks Inc
Global Internet Marketing Inc
< http://linz1.net >
*Serving Clients Online Since 1994*

PS: Since I love to share my experiences I'm currently
mentoring 14 newbies, and I would like to assist you too!