09-02-2022, 11:47 AM
Sometime during the DOS era I got started with offering customized IBM PC clones for good prices as my main biz and they sold well until my main venue was no longer open and I had to move on.
The timing was good though and I was able to move hundreds of miles away and start it all up again pretty easily - the demand was high.
Back around 1993 or so, as an OS/2 user I was offered to become a user of IBM.net direct internet services via dialup.
It was interesting - but since the only other 'online' users back then were members of AO-ILL or Compukeserve it was too early to spend much time on it - until my clients heard about email, then things started to roll faster.
In all the years between then and now I kept my tiny biz tiny on purpose because I found that availability and personal hands-on support made for loyal clients.
I didn't look into MMO just because I was busy enough not to need to, BUT:
Knowing that one day I'd need to cope with aging, I began check it out.
Lucky for me (sort of) a kind soul saw me floundering about at W+ and redirected my attention to BBHF.
An exciting time for me to say the least !!
All this STUFF - and having been into w*r*z since the DOS days - well, BBHF was exactly what I needed.
Of course I also fell into shiny object syndrome for a while like most folks tend to do.
Too much stuff though = too LITTLE results because it -IS- a rather harsh learning curve and by then I'd already gathered up WAY too much overly exciting stuff to EVER get good uses from it all.
Now it is 5 1/2 years since I got into BBHF;
It is also GBs of (mostly useless) guru turds and courses piled up and time for mass deletions.
After all this time I finally realized some things...:
- At my age and place in life (mostly retired) it is NOT a time to start any sort of demanding, new full time career;
- The internet is a hot MESS - made even worse by all the SAAS krap now;
- Most of those peddling IM stuff are spouting utter BS;
- Most of the truly profitable opportunities involve openly lying to folks to get their $$$;
- Most of the courses gotten from pewdemy are of such low quality as to be useless, really;
- Other genuine avenues to MMO either involve loads of work in gaining any audience and traffic, or=>
Trusting monolithic corporations (like Azon, etc...) to generously ALLOW you to make ANY profits until they decide that they will instead eat ALL of your lunch.
Previously I posted here about seeking some smallish means towards getting some smallish returns and not wanting to fight my way through fiverr or other such places.
Pretty clearly this was of zero interest to other members.
But this all came to mind since I cleaned out the original post here - so I'm sharing this instead.
The timing was good though and I was able to move hundreds of miles away and start it all up again pretty easily - the demand was high.
Back around 1993 or so, as an OS/2 user I was offered to become a user of IBM.net direct internet services via dialup.
It was interesting - but since the only other 'online' users back then were members of AO-ILL or Compukeserve it was too early to spend much time on it - until my clients heard about email, then things started to roll faster.
In all the years between then and now I kept my tiny biz tiny on purpose because I found that availability and personal hands-on support made for loyal clients.
I didn't look into MMO just because I was busy enough not to need to, BUT:
Knowing that one day I'd need to cope with aging, I began check it out.
Lucky for me (sort of) a kind soul saw me floundering about at W+ and redirected my attention to BBHF.
An exciting time for me to say the least !!
All this STUFF - and having been into w*r*z since the DOS days - well, BBHF was exactly what I needed.
Of course I also fell into shiny object syndrome for a while like most folks tend to do.
Too much stuff though = too LITTLE results because it -IS- a rather harsh learning curve and by then I'd already gathered up WAY too much overly exciting stuff to EVER get good uses from it all.
Now it is 5 1/2 years since I got into BBHF;
It is also GBs of (mostly useless) guru turds and courses piled up and time for mass deletions.
After all this time I finally realized some things...:
- At my age and place in life (mostly retired) it is NOT a time to start any sort of demanding, new full time career;
- The internet is a hot MESS - made even worse by all the SAAS krap now;
- Most of those peddling IM stuff are spouting utter BS;
- Most of the truly profitable opportunities involve openly lying to folks to get their $$$;
- Most of the courses gotten from pewdemy are of such low quality as to be useless, really;
- Other genuine avenues to MMO either involve loads of work in gaining any audience and traffic, or=>
Trusting monolithic corporations (like Azon, etc...) to generously ALLOW you to make ANY profits until they decide that they will instead eat ALL of your lunch.
Previously I posted here about seeking some smallish means towards getting some smallish returns and not wanting to fight my way through fiverr or other such places.
Pretty clearly this was of zero interest to other members.
But this all came to mind since I cleaned out the original post here - so I'm sharing this instead.
