Is affiliate marketing your dream? Does it fulfill you?

Everyone is looking for THE thing that will fulfill their dreams. I did too. For a while I thought that affiliate marketing would fulfill them.
Where have you looked and has it satisfied you?
What works? What doesn’t?
Here some of the things I found out that are true for myself:

Affiliate marketing in itself does not satisfy me because in the beginning it is just a lot of work and learning with little outcome. I needed to know why I was doing it.
Education only does not satisfy. I needed to know what difference it could make using my knowledge.
Money alone did not satisfy because it left me empty inside. I needed to know what to use the money for. What good it could do. Indulging (food, clothes, luxury articles, travels etc) didn’t do it for me.
Friends were fun -and sometimes trouble and in the end they didn’t fill the void inside. I […]

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