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Several years ago when I first started to work full-time as a blogger, I used to ask myself and other professionals the same question.

What is it like to make money online?

People usually are not able to answer this question easily because the feelings associated with making money online are so mixed and personal that people usually don't want to share them with anyone.

Since I have been working online for several years now, so I believe I can give an answer to this question.

Although the money that comes from working online is not magical, still you feel as if you have achieved something great. I still remember when the first time I earned $0.01, it was an awesome feeling where I felt as if I have achieved something and it also felt a bit magical.

Magical in the sense that I didn't have to apply for any job and drag myself from the day-to-day work. There was no boss who used to ask me to send reports and there were no colleagues that asked my help even when they knew my whole day is booked.

What was the routine like?
When you work as a full-time blogger, you have to ensure that your life is disciplined. This is because you have a lot of time. You have every time in the world at your disposal and if you are not able to make that time count, then that is wasted.

Having said that, initially, I became a bit lazy because I had a lot of time, and when I observed that I need to be more focused I started coming into a routine and started going to sites or offices with my friends.

Those were the co-working spaces, where people used to come on every single day especially the people who were having work from home or the people who were having their own businesses.

This helped me a lot because I started waking p on time and then started to get ready and come into a routine.

Once I was on track, I used to write a lot of articles day in and day out. This was an important step because without content people would not come to your website and use it in the first place. Then after completing 2 or 3 articles, I used to come back home and again used to sit for some more work for my blog and website.

The feeling of making money online
When I received my first $1, I was super excited because I had put in the effort and it really paid off. This was also because I earned my first dollar while sleeping.

Later in the day when I checked the analytics, I got to know that people from all over the world were searching for keywords that I was ranking for and hence I was able to make a lot of money because of that.

This also felt magical because it was the first time that I didn't have to actively work for something to make money, but I made my first dollar while sleeping, although I had set up the system, my website and its content in such a way that people would like to read it and enjoy surfing through my website.

I was also confused a bit because some of my pages were bringing maximum traffic so I had to figure out why was that happening and what other pages are not performing well.

These all questions made me more curious and I wanted to get answers as soon as possible so that all my articles ranked on Search Engines and driver traffic. This had given me a lot of sleepless nights as well.

Then comes the refresh syndrome.
Once you receive your first dollar, you get addicted to refreshing your AdSense account or the dashboard which is showing your total earnings on any ad platform.

I call it refresh syndrome because as you need some hit and you get addicted to drugs, similarly you get addicted to refreshing your dashboard to track your earnings, obviously because those are not automatically going to refresh.

This keeps you logged in to your dashboards forever and you also feel as if you are not happy if you are not refreshing and checking the revenue you made, and sometimes if you are not making a substantial amount, you start getting depressed and sad, and keep on always thinking what wrong you are doing and how to get things right.

Conclusion;
Earning or Making Money Online is a mixed feeling because there are a lot of things happening when you first start making money online therefore, you may sometimes feel happy, sometimes curious and sometimes even sad because of the amounts you are making.