Working - Doing What I Enjoy

Gatesville's "The Sign" is on our main street and is seen by thousands of people each day.

I'm up late tonight working on my website(s) getting everything just right for when my ad goes up in a couple of weeks. We have one of those big signs in town where they can change the message to advertise something different every day, and I've purchased four days. The first two will be on the 26th and 27th of August. Until then I will be spending much of my time making my website as useful and attractive as possible. (Input is always welcome.) The website that will be advertised will be this one. It will, hopefully, lead people to this one, which will be the real money-maker. The second two days will be later, in September.

It's amazing how many rip-offs there are out there for people who are trying to make some money on the Internet. Be very cautious if you plan to research this sort of thing. It would be great if there was one resource where people could find out what's real and what's a money-making scheme. Maybe there is and I just haven't found it yet.

Free at last! Or am I?

I finally got fired today. I didn't especially like the job, and they made it very easy to get fired, so I did. I could have quit, sure, but then I wouldn't be able to apply for unemployment insurance.

I don't plan to become a slug. At least, not now. I'll do that after Publisher's Clearing House delivers the $10 million check.

Right now I hope to become self-employed. I will create websites. I will also sell specialty advertising. If you need a simple website or you need your name on a pen, I'm your gal.

I have a website for my website design business. You can find it here. I want to have a website for the specialty advertising, too, but that will be sometime down the road.

And I have some other advertising ideas, too. Small stuff to start with, until I see if it will work out.

I don't need to make a lot of money. Just enough to feed the furchildren!

Time For Change (Almost)

Two more days at Walgreens, then the weekend off, then I start my new job. I'm a little scared. Not that I can't do the job. I can. It's a very simple job. What I'm a little scared of is that I'm still suffering from this "chronic fatigue" and yet I'm starting a new job. For the first five weeks I have to show up at 7:00 a.m. and I'm not allowed to miss a single day because I'll be in training. It's going to be harder than hell to get out of bed that early! I'm going to have to set my alarm for 3:00 a.m. just to be sure I'm out of bed by 5:00 a.m. And I'm going to have to ingest a LOT of caffeine while this training is going on, I think.

My boss at Walgreens hasn't chosen to talk to me about why I'm leaving or where I'm going. That surprises me. My guess is that he's made some assumptions and he's sticking with them. Just to stifle those assumptions a bit, I asked him the other day, "If this thing with Convergys doesn't work, will you let me come back?" He just gave me an evil laugh!

What I really need, since Publisher's Clearing House doesn't seem to be coming to see me any time soon, is to be self-employed. I've got several ideas, but I guess I'm just worried that I wouldn't make enough money to survive.

I think I'm going to get busy getting a sales tax permit from the state so that I can do something to make my own money. I'll see how it goes then decide if I should quit my job!

I also have ideas for two great products, but I have no idea how to get them made or who I can trust with my ideas. So I have the potential to get rich quick, but have no idea how to go about it. Anyone have any ideas?