Back To The Internet Dream.
So I started out 2006 pretty much broke, Tanya back in the Ukraine for 5 weeks because her mother had a stroke, pretty well depleted financially, emotionally, physically, and going through 30 days of rain here in the Pacific Northwest in January. It was not a fun month. ‘)
Back in November, I could begin to see the handwriting on the wall. And I said to myself, “Self, what are you going to do?” So I began to explore the Internet once again.
I go one of the “Internet business in a box” product. That was the beginning of my self-taught Internet Business education. What you get is this:
A pre-fab web site, some affiliate programs to sign up for, and some basic instruction. The only problem is that there are a lot of pieces of the puzzles that you have to figure out where they fit.
In February of 2005, I went back to driving truck on a part time basis doing local delivery. Unfortunately in the middle of April, I had a detached retina and no longer had the required vision in my left eye to have a commercial driving license. To top it off, I had to have an operation on my eye 10 days before my Medi-Care health insurance kicked in.
They put a gas bubble in my eye so that the hole in the retina would heal. The gas has just about dissipated when the hole opened again. So July 1, I had a second operation – this time they put in a silicone gel bubble. Of course, a year later I had to have a third operation to take out the get as it does not naturally dissipate as does the gas bubble.
(My eye is OK – I have about 50/20 vision in my left eye and lost a small bit of vision in the center where the hole was. All in all, I guess I am pretty lucky.)
Back to the Internet. Nothing is happening. I don’t know how to get traffic to my web site. The things that I try don’t seem to work. I’m not able to stay focused on the business due to all of the other stuff going on in my life. Pretty depressed in July as an aftermath of the operation. Woe is me. 
There was a big box computer store withing walking distance of our apartment and so at the end of July I got a job running a cash register at the check out. Started out at $8.00 an hour. Tanya got a part time job at the local high school in the cafeteria and we begin to survive again.
I’m now 64 years old and beginning to think, “How am I going to get out of this mess. What’s the next step.?”
Interestingly enough, that’s the title of the next post in the series. So go and read, “What’s The Next Step.”
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