What I want to do when I grow up....

I think I have found what I want to do when I grow up; affiliate marketing and lead generation. I have had several conversation recently about how you can seem much larger than you really are with all the business tools that exist now. You can set up a domain, emails, faxes, etc all electronically within minutes. Accounting, paying taxes, setting up thing online are so automated now you can create systems that do all the heavy lifting if you can create the vision on what you want to create. The beauty of all of this is you can run your empire from a computer with internet access. I think the idea is pretty neat. I have always held myself out as pretty intelligent, I guess this will be the litmus test. Can I learn how to do this with little formal instruction, the way the real world operates?