Man turns being agoraphobic and laid off into profitable online business.
After a recent company shut down, this single, agoraphobic, father builds an online business to support his children. A few years ago Jesse Holalde was diagnosed with agoraphobia. Webster’s New World College Dictionary defines agoraphobia as “an abnormal fear of being in open or public places”. The National Institute of Mental Health describes agoraphobia as “Intense fear and anxiety of any place or situation where escape might be difficult, leading to avoidance of situations such as being alone outside of the home; traveling in a car, bus, or airplane; or being in a crowded area.
• Approximately 1.8 million American adults age 18 and over, or about 0.8 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have agoraphobia without a history of panic disorder.
• The median age of onset of agoraphobia is 20 years of age.”
After being laid off from his job, Jesse tried working in the kitchen of a local grill. However, the pay was so small he could no longer pay his bills. Jesse quit this job, dropped out of his online college and began focusing all of his attention on finding a better paying job. Still, being an agoraphobic causes much stress and anxiety, to make matters worse this is compounded by a feeling of depression stemming from the lack of understanding of others and a feeling of total isolation. All of this wears on the agoraphobic’s stamina, health and overall well being. This, in turn adds to the stress and anxiety and everything comes full circle and a snowball effect emerges. Nevertheless, Jesse pressed on forcing himself to go out, look for work and go to interviews. Fed up, he decided to ask the TWC (Texas Workforce Commission) if they helped people with disabilities. The TWC gave him the phone number of another local Texas state department DARS (Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services). However, after many attempts to get them to work with him, they only gave him the run around and never followed through with any actual help.
That’s when Jesse started looking online for a website that would help an agoraphobic work from the comfort of his or her home. After endless searching and coming up empty handed, he started his own website “Money Maker For Agoraphobics”. He started by going to webstarts.com where he was able to obtain a website absolutely free. After this he spent a little time building the look of his website. He then decided that it did no good for him to have a website if no one was going to see it and arranged to bring some traffic to his site. First by adding his websites URL to a few good search engines for free, using FreeWebSubmission.com and then using a few other great resources. After this he had to find a way to bring money in to support not only himself and his children but also to support his website to help other agoraphobics. You can find out just how he accomplished this, and more, by going to his website: http://s1.webstarts.com/MoneyMakerForAgoraphobics/index.html
