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FIB - Scams 101 - Ye Olde Archives
Posted By: MaaMaw In Response To: Dear The Truth.... (MaaMaw)
Thursday, 29 September 2005, at 5:55 p.m.
From 1980 to 2003 -- twenty-three years by my count -- I gave almost 100% of myself to my business, so (contrary to popular belief) I am quite capable of focusing my efforts.
I never got rich or became financially independent because I wasn't much good at firing people, so I wasted far too much time redoing inferior work.
But I earned a pretty decent living and was the sole support of my family for 23 years.
Surprisingly, I also started Friends In Business during that time and managed to bring in between $500 and $2500 a month by "dabbling" in internet marketing. I'm not proud that I haven't risen to great heights out here on the internet, which I dearly love, but there's more to life than making a living.
The sad part about giving almost 100% of myself to my business is that I had very little left to give my daughter. I was determined to be home with her, so for about 15 of those years, I worked (literally) 18-20 hours a day 7 days a week. She's 27 now, and what I did to her childhood is the biggest regret of my life.
My other daughter is 10. I saw her childhood going the same direction, so I packed up and headed north, and I will never regret that decision.
I'm not an idiot.
I know I chronically have too many pots on the stove -- but y'know, I learned the hard way that it didn't pay to keep all my potatoes in the same pot either.
I'm looking at AmericaZoo as possibly -- just *possibly* -- a way to turn off the burner under some of those pots (FIB not included; it's here to stay).
I could never in a million years have built such a site -- although the creator of the site was not an internet marketer nor did he aspire to be, and I realize there are certain things that need to be done to make it successful -- and I'm not going to tell you what I'm paying for it, but I venture to guess that if you knew, it would blow you right out of your drawers.
Only a moron would have passed up such an opportunity, and while I will never be Donald Trump, I ain't no moron.
No how.
Luv,
MaaMaw
AmericaZoo -- MaaMaw & Katie's New Baby
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