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@Zania, based on your writing here I wouldn’t have suspected that you would have a site focused on depression and related conditions. I am sure it is a story for another day, but it looks like heart-felt, fine work that you do. I will read more of it as I can. We’ll swap stories some time. I have had my bouts with OCD and related sundries over the years, for now I have sworn off all of the hard stuff and am down to Valium and light alcohol abuse, or as I call it, dessert. Actually feeling better now than in many years when I was on meds trying to remember what good felt like. The human condition and what we have to do to keep it together. Keep up the good work.

One man to another, don’t think twice about pulling out of a bet with a huckster. I only bet with people I trust. No shame in waving it off. I agree with the consensus here, it is nonsensical. I have some loud mouthed “associates” who like pulling that kind of thing out when they are wounded grievously. You know you are being baited, and that he is all talk anyway. You hears the bleating about how much his income has sunk recently. It is a neanderthal knee-jerk reaction to want to start a pissing contest instead of concentrating on putting out his fires. Irresponsible and ignorant on his part and a waste of everyone’s time, but for the train wreck fascination of it. I wouldn’t bet lunch with someone willing to post their themselves having a break from reality on the internet, even if it was a sure win.

Anyway, again thanks much. I am cobbling something together to float out in the next few weeks or so but I will stop in and check things out when I take breaks. I enjoy your work and I suspect I can learn a lot from you and your friends here. All the best.

I’ve already got one of those, lol!

And check out today’s title

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I think the next blog I’m going to create will be the blogbog… where we all can share drunken moments of depression and self loathing. LOL. Anyway, thanks again for the great comment, we look forward to seeing plenty more of ya!

That aside, interesting post here Mt. Biscuit, and an equally interesting video Vic put out.

BTW PB: Using an alias, sorry, I am newborn to this game and prefer not to draw attention to myself as I ask stupid questions.

Regarding Vic (I never heard of him until I saw the video and read more here), he came across like a many sleazeballs I meet in South Florida. Maybe he is a nice guy when he is not in a lather, I don’t know, but if he addressed me that way to my face I would have decked him before my next blink. Based on that criteria, I have to call him a complete jerk for over the top flaming of people like that from the safety of his keyboard.

He had me feverishly Googling BANS though, but after reading about 40 pages of material on them, I think the name is appropriate. Designed to get you BANNED from search listings in due time. Not to mention a hell of a lot of work for nickles and dimes.

I am running into so much shyster junk from these get rich quick schemes advocating abusing services to pile up the nickles and dimes, it is making me sick and reconsidering getting involved. Like he the man said in his video, some people aren’t built for this. Some people prefer an honest dollar was what he didn’t say. I am pretty sure most who do that sort of shell game use the “as long as it isn’t legal, why not?” argument so they can sleep at night. But its like having people dumping waste into my swimming pool.

I am a pretty hard core technologist by trade, 20 years in the business, so I am into the design and creation and development aspects of the medium. Only recently have I given serious thought to developing my own properties instead of spending 100% of my time building them for others. From what I can tell, the money is much better per hour hiring myself out than trying to fight tooth and nail producing original content and playing catchup with the SEO brainiacs AND/OR black hats who have all of this stuff down, but I haven’t written it off yet. But really, the gutter level stuff I can live without. I am not built for that. I am no shrinking violet, don’t get me wrong, I have looked at everything from blogging about what I know and love to the other extreme, even building porn sites. I have the technical know how to do what I want. I always look at an investment with a completely open mind, and will look from the abyss to the sky before I settle somewhere in between.

But I do have to look myself in the mirror and I am having a hard time sorting out where it is that I have to draw that line because I don’t want a quickie hit and then pump and dump business. I would like fast money, like anyone else, but I want sustainable money more than anything. Sure, I’m a whore, even in my day job. I will write you the most beautiful face for your most utterly ridiculous idea and cash your check, but that was your idea, and I just accommodate you. I don’t first give you a bad idea and convince you it is the best thing since boobs on a stick and then take your money.

This black hat stuff (see I learn a few new words every day), just doesn’t jibe right for me. I have been in a cutthroat business for 2 decades, but there is always a line that almost no one crosses in every business. Those who cross it, well you get the scarlet letter and it doesn’t fade for years. Who needs it? I know these things because being in the software business actually gets you deep into the inner sanctum of dozens of other types of businesses, mom and pop to Fortune 10, over the years so you can get some serious perspective in my field.

Ok, somebody besides Vic and Jesus, tell me how to get rich doing this stuff and not have to drink myself (more) into a stupor or go on (more) meds to live with myself?

Nice site. Virgin visitor, but will be reading more here if this wasn’t to lame for you.

Thanks,
Asim

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