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Posted By: Dave Mauder (eDave) <dmauder@NOSPAMmauder.com> In Response To: Thanks Dave (The Tim)
Thursday, 7 April 2005, at 12:04 p.m.
Darn you Tim! I had to look up "tangential"... :-) HAHA!
Anyway, thanks for the response. I'm doing OK on my site with affiliate marketing too, but I definitely can't quit my job yet.
I hear what you are saying about all the legal and ethical ways to make a living, but I also think it's human nature to look for the easy way out - the "magic bullet" so to speak. Of course, there's also the problem of not knowing what I want to be when I grow up.
Seriously Tim, I struggle with it all the time... I'm a computer engineer and have been for 16+ years, but I feel like I'm not doing what I was called to do. I should be a financial planner or something along those lines, but can't get myself to do it for some reason. Fear of change, fear of success, fear of failure...I dunno. :-(
Dave
> I think many mistake my cynicism for negativity, but that's ok. The Karma
> thing is spot on. I'm sorry if you think I'm targeting YOU specifically. I
> recognize you're just a tangential player. I even understand your
> reluctance to just walk away from something even though you know in your
> gut it's bogus since YOU are making money. That's human nature. I think
> you're massaging your conscience by building a wall of 'possible legality'
> for something that is quite obviously not, because you do care about the
> Karma factor and it helps to think you're not harming anybody or breaking
> any laws. Hope you're right.
> There are so many legal and ethical ways to make a living, I'm bemused by
> the amount of time and energy many go through trying to find the perfect
> dizzop. If they spent half as much time on just about anything else they'd
> be much further along the road to success. Reading between the lines of
> your and MawMaw's experience with DXgold leads me to think that it's
> either complicated by design (to frustrate folks from really figuring
> anything out) or even if legit (for purpose of discussion ONLY) it's so
> complicated you could learn nuclear medicine or rocket science (real
> professions) in the time you waste mastering the arcane and artificial
> DXgoldspeak.
> Enjoy.
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