What exactly is the difference between an offline and an online career and which possibly has great potentials. Am asking because with the wide spread of the internet, what can be done with computer is beginning to be unimaginable. Great minds like mark zukerberg, youtube guys and some other guys that are involved in cloud computing and a host of other tecnologies are changing the face of technology. What is your take on this nairalanders?

By online do you mean working from home or anywhere outside the office?
Working from home is very flexible. You might wake up at anytime and work at your on pace without having to dress up in business attire. But you miss out on physically interacting with people on a daily basis and some people tend to work longer ours since the home office is right there.
Working in the office has its pros and cons as well. You get to know and mingle with your colleagues. Some of them can be annoying but you learn to deal with them and work with different personalities.

I meant kind of working from home and i am kind at looking at being self employed, being creative about what you do and probably taking it to a business where it get out of home.

Facebook and microsoft definitely started as home businesses but the innovations and successes took it out of the house to multimillion dollar business that no longer runs out of home.

We might not be able to develop the next facebook or google but it would be some good thing to start something that would be prosperous and employ a few people and move out of the house.

The only reason why starting off your business online is that it gets easier with less thoughts about logistics. If you are very successful, the business definitely comes back offline even though it still has an online presence.