[Mr Exotic]

Hey JD missed this thread, I havent been on the board other than just checking in for a few minutes a couple days ago for a while. Been busy and crazy here, the wife had every single one of her teeth pulled yesterday (has some kind of deteriorating jaw bone disease that is hereditary) she's been passed out on pain meds and I gotta wrangle the little heathens and try to get something done at the same time. When she is awake from the pain meds she's being a phsyco bitch from hell because she cant smoke at all, so quitting smoking on top of all that other shit.

Like I was saying before man, its all about just sticking with it, and even then you are gonna still have bad times, last month was my worst month of the year, the last week of the month was what I am hoping a complete fluke, there are a couple of reasons that I know for sure contributed to this, so at least I know what went wrong. The first thing is that a new site I started promoting changed all their content, at first they were doing better than any site I had ever promoted before, so I thought hell I am gonna go balls to the wall with this site the rest of this month, then they changed all their content and I went from getting 7 sales with the first 1800 hits sent (and they count more hits than most sponsors) to getting 2 sales the rest of the month! Then the other (my poor wife), my wife had a buch of doctors appointments and shit to go to, not only for her mouth, but this last July hurt herself at work and we just finalized getting that all taken care of and she just a week ago was realeased from her restrictions, I have been running her all over the whole fucking state of Indiana to see all these different doctors for her various ailments instead of making and submitting free sites, I probably missed at least 10 days of submitting in November.

Yeah it does suck and I have been feeling burnt out for the last few months, but like you said it sure beats the hell out of working at McDonalds. My wife works hard at peice of shit factory where they actually sit there and time people with a fucking stopwatch and if you aint fast enough you get bitched out big time, and if your a new person and aint fast enough to get the boot your first day, my wife has been working there busting her ass for close to 3 years now I think and they said they couldnt afford to give raises this year, so she might be making like 80 cents more an hour than what she was when she first started.

She gets up at 4:30 in the morning drives 20 miles there to start at 6 and goes full speed until 2:30 then drives 20 miles home. On my worst months we make about the same (like last month), but pretty much every month I make at least 25-30% more than she does. And I get up whenever the fuck I want to, go to bed whenever the fuck I want to. I wake up in the morning sit and watch the news, drink my coffee until my poor pathetic ass thinks I am ready to go and get some work done. And by work, I mean sitting on my ass looking at porn, make some web pages, then go to more porn sites, fill out some simple forms (for which I have software for) and click the submit button. I should have it so hard, haha.

When I start feeling bad for myself and thinking oh damn how am I ever gonna go on, I am so burned out, if I have to make another gay sex movie site I am gonna puke, etc. I just think about my wife's day, and the shit she puts up with from her boss. I mean if I actually count the hours of actual work I do (not reading boards, reading articles, chatting, getting side tracked and finding myself reading about the Cubs, Colts, and Pacers, but actually dealing with content and buidling pages) I probably only work a couple hours a day on most days, now there are days where I have extra to do and there might be a couple 12 hour days a month, but the average day consists of very little actual work. After thinking about all that, haha, I always come to the conclusion that gee maybe I dont have it so hard after all.

I know I went thru a stage exactly like what you are doing right now man. I got so used to making easy huge money hand over fist with little or no work at all, or work a bunch for a while and then not have to do anything for months. My work day back in the day used to consist of looking at my traffic trade script stats and chat with the other webmasters I traded with about how drunk and fucked up we got the night before, making the money in 2 days what I now make in a month. I used to go from different thing to different thing because surely there has got to be something no one is telling me about, there has gotta be that one hidden secret, and no one will let the cat out of the bag. I always gave up on shit before I even fully figured it out, because I had gotten so spoiled, got so used to making so much money with so little effort. I went on for a long time like that not making money at all.

Then I got my wake up call, I had a few little side jobs here and there that sucked, had a paper route (what a fucking joke), but the one thing that got to me the most that I had to do or become homeless was WORK AT WALMART!! HAHAHA, I worked in the garden center. I loaded 40lb bags of dirt into people's mini vans, once loaded so many patio blocks into a station wagon that the exhaust was dragging on the ground.

Basically man I figured this out, the big secret is that there is no secret, you just gotta keep on keeping on. If you aint happy with something fix it, always go thru and see if there are things you can do better. I know my mind runs continuously 24/7 about how I could tweak this or improve that. Your best two friends when making free sites are hard work and time.