What This is About

I have been a cab driver, assembly line worker and foreman trainee, carpet installer, corrections officer, bowling alley mechanic/porter/deskman, welder, USAF airman, pool hustler, Manpower day-worker, alarm installer contactor, painter, maintenace contractor, professional starving artist and writer, bus boy, cleaning contactor, landlord, options/commodity trader, and at least 6 other things that I can't remember right now because I'm drunk.............

Oh yeah! An OTR trucker--owner-operator! That's what I do right now! Yeah--so I'm drunk--so what? Know what my CB handle is? Mr. Magoo! Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Nah! My truck is down for repairs and I'm in a hotel. I got lasik surgery, and I don't touch alchohol except in circumstances like this. And I'll let you merge (or cut me off), because I'm a real pro and an adult.

I have another site on blogspot which can give you a better picture of me, personally. I just started this one, because it dawned on me that I have some pretty good advice to give.

This will be my affiliate site. I want to make some extra money. This one, I can actively promote to a niche-audience to which it will be valuable. That will be lesson #1, in my next blog...whenever I get around to it.

For now, understand that I'm an idea-man. Some of this stuff, I have done successfully--but somehow got destroyed at after awhile. Other stuff is stuff that I tried, or just thought of trying, with mediocre or zero success.

You will find here not only ideas and plans, but also my failures, and the reasons for them.

The fact is, I'm disorganized and lazy. In my (somewhat protracted) adolescence, I failed to recognize these weaknesses, and they undid me. And, too, this failure to see myself clearly made me unhappy for much of my life.

This won't be just about making money, friend. It will be about success. It will be about being realistic, and being happy.

The way I'll be promoting this, many of you who read it will be better-suited to execute much of the stuff you learn here. You will be better organized and more disciplined. You will learn from my failures. You can take even what I've never attempted--but learned and refined--and make something of it.

Just to finish this first blog: Today I'm that owner-operator. I'm doing well, and have redeemed myself, pretty much. I love what I do, still have grandiose plans (which I CAN execute), but (most importantly) am fairly content and secure.

I'm starting this blog more to share what I've learned than to make money, and that's the truth. Only, this is the one that's targetted, and which I'll actively promote, and I hope to make a few bucks in affiliate deals, and/or possibly turn it into a book.

I'll make recommendations and provide links. Not exclusively to help you MAKE money, but also to save it. (A penny saved is a penny earned. Nobody thinks about that. Start thinking about it now.)

You will get the truth from me, though. That's the first thing I can teach you (if you don't already know it): If you want people to come back, or send their friends to you, and expand your clientele or audence, you'd better damn well shoot straight.

And I'll tell you something else: I'm SMART.

Stay tuned.