The Better Idea Commercial Publisher

2008-05-18


Where have you been and where are you going?



As I was growing up I can remember my grandfather telling me someday you could be President.

That was many, too many years ago but you soon realize that no matter how hard you work you never meet your expectations. I can remember thinking about what life would be like when I retired.

Being raised on a farm in a small community in upstate New York my working life began almost as soon as I could walk. I had chores to do starting at about 4:00 am and then getting cleaned up and ready to get on the school bus.  After school I still had chores to complete, whether it was cleaning my room, milking and feeding 40 to 50 cows everyday.

As I grew older and graduated from high school in 1959, I soon learned that the life growing up was very easy.

I had no idea back then that I would still be working a full time job at age 67. I have retired 3 times and it does not look like I will fully retire anytime soon.  After spending 4 years in the US Air Force, I spent 30 years building boilers for the power industry. Yes, boilers that I worked on are supplying the power that produces the power to your homes.

I retired from that and built gas stations and conveneant stores in Florida for 6 years that is where I met my wife Faye and we moved to Louisiana where I went to work for Family Dollar Stores, after seven years I retired and moved to Texas and went back to work for Family Dollar Stores because retirement funds did not pay the bills.

In the between all of that I got interested in the Internet in 1998 and bought a computer thinking that I could make a living on the Internet.  That didn't work as a means of supplementing my income, during that time I probably made a total of 10 dollars. So when I hear someone mention about retiring tomorrow because they have the best money maker on the internet I just have a good chuckle.

I am sure there are people who have made a good living off of the Internet. My dream has always been to be able to generate an extra income of 500 to 1,000 dollars extra a month so that I don't have to work a full time job at the rate of 60 to 70 hours per week and only get paid for 52 hours.





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