Oldschool reinvented noob got a few questions!

[Mr Exotic]

JD sounds like you have had your share of hard times man. I feel for ya as I have been there myself. I didnt get fucked on AVS sites since I never did them, but I started off making big money pretty much right off the get go back in very late 99/very early 2000. I was making all my money off CJ (circle jerk) sites, which pretty much ceased to exist around the end of 2001. Man I was right out of high school making money hand over fist not really even having a clue as to how to actually make a sale. Just throw up a java alert, an exit console, and throw up a few little things on the page that made 3-4k/month for pocket change, haha, pocket change back then. My dad has a very good job building transmissions at Chrysler and I remember thinking I was big shit because I made more than him just off my exit console sponsor, and I made 3-4 times more than that on my java alert thingie, I had more money than I knew what to do with. I was young and dumb (right out of high school) and thought hell I am gonna be doing this exact same thing the rest of my life. Then it just so happened that as the bottom fell out of the CJ site scene I ended up with some pretty serious health problems and I didnt have insurance. So by the time I was better I had spent all my money on doctors, hospitals, and meds. And didnt have any money to get anything new started. It took me quite a while, but with alot of help from family, and some help from some online friends to point me in the right direction I was able to get back on my feet and at least make a living again online. I had some bad times in between though, I worked for a few people online, had a couple of shit jobs which included a paper route, and GASP working at Walmart, hahaha. I aint even came close to making what I used to make, hell I would give my left nut to make a month now what I used to make in a week back then. But I keep on keeping on, made some ok money off galleries for a few years, and that started drying up, so I started the free site stuff about 10 months ago and like what I am seeing so far, and from what I have been able to gather from researching and talking with other people another 2 years of this and I oughta be going somewhere, haha.
Hang in there man and keep on keeping on until you find something that works.