I just had the great pleasure of interviewing Michael Dunlop, he is a great advocate of working on your own terms and not letting it rule your life, but using it as a means to enhance your quality of life. He is in the process of building quite the online empire, so watch out!!

Here is what he had to say:

We know you’re a “Young Go Getter”, but so our readers know, how old are you?

Hello everyone, my Name is Michael Dunlop and I am 20 years but started my first business venture when I was around 10 years old.

Can you tell us the quick history about yourself, and what drives you to succeed?

So many things drive me to success, mainly I want a life style that allows me to do what I want when I want. I hate the idea that I am not FREE just to do that, everyone has so much holding them down, not me and never will I. Being an Internet entrepreneur means most of the time I don’t know what time it is and what day it is, because it doesn’t matter!

History… Well I dropped out of College here in England at 18 years old with out doing my exams, which is high school for you Americans. I failed most things at school and I hate to play the Dyslexic card as it seems to be over rated and used as an excuse but I was very bad a reading and writing. I remember even at 13 years old my mum trying to get me to read and fulling asleep because I was so bad.

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Just got that video from YGG member Satish Kanwar, what a great idea and a result! Get more info here!

We are finally nearing the finish line, we almost have the site ready to rock in full force again. The forums should be back very soon, next day or so on them.

Then we will be back to posting regularly. Also there will be a pretty cool contest and some ways for everyone to get involved.

Cheers!

What an eventful week plus for YGG. We have been down for the past week due to a hacking of our site by someone out there. We are just working to tweak the old template to work with the most current version of WordPress, so that should be ready for Monday.

I just wanted to come …