Website Building Paradox

So I was trying to start my own business, which includes building a website. It didn't happen! One of the website builders advertised on TV wanted more than $400 and then I got this "free trial" for another that was entirely too complicated and the templates did not match anything that I was trying to do. If I can't handle the simple task of building a website, then maybe I can't handle running my own business. Or maybe there needs to be a simpler way of designing your own website. I don't know. I just know that I am now frustrated, tired, and I'm looking for more options. Meanwhile, I am broke and need a job that pays.

Schemes

What aggravates me, as a poor person, is all of these "get-rich-quick" schemes. They claim that you will make "$200 per hour" or something like that and personally, I think there should be laws in place against them! They charge a hefty start-up fee and that is how they really make their money. MLM schemes, stuffing envelopes, selling an expensive product, you name it. They claim it is so "easy" and I believe there is a dark place reserved for them somewhere because it's the desperate poor people who fall into the trap. The sad thing about it is that, even though I know they are all schemes, every time I see one, I'll say to myself, "If only I had the $49.99 to buy that." It's not because I'm dumb. It's because I'm desperate. I feel so sorry for those who HAVE had that start-up fee in their pocket and DID fall into the trap. I have fallen for two in my lifetime. They were listed in some "Money From Home" magazine and they offered "make money testing free electronics" and "make money selling concert tickets on Ebay". I bought both of them at different times. Yes, what they said sounded good, but you had to already have quite a bit of money to pay for the tickets and when I looked on Ebay to see how others were doing by posting these tickets, they had been relisted several times. The testing of electronics was quite complicated and I didn't have a printer for my computer. You were to write to the companies asking for free samples and then you were to offer to write reviews on the products. Then you could either keep or resell the products.

Another type of scheme that I want to point out is the one where you find an ad in the paper and they tell you that you are hired. Then they send you a check to "buy supplies with" and you send it to them, unaware that it is a scam. I almost fell into this one. They sent the check and I received it on Christmas Eve. I thought I was saved! I ran around trying to cash it and finally, someone called the numbers to have it verified and it turned out to be a fake check. This ruined Christmas for me and my family. These people advertised in our LOCAL paper! For some reason, they get away with it. I STILL see this same ad in the paper, two years later, and that was after I reported it to the newspaper. They obviously don't care as long as the scammers pay for the ads. Again, there is a dark place reserved for them.

I don't know why people like this get away with these schemes but they do.

Being Real

There are many blogs like mine. I have some really brutal and somewhat "out there" opinions. I've often been called "real" because I speak my mind more often than I should and what I say can and will offend many but also can and will amuse many. I am the mother of five, I hate politicians. I used to identify as a Democrat but that has changed. I now identify with the Libertarians better. I have a bit of a horror story to tell but not here. You can read about it in the book that I am writing. However, writing a book doesn't pay the bills until after it is written and even then, there is no guarantee. I have an interesting sense of humor and I always try to be funny and upbeat, no matter what. I am one of the poor and honestly, it angers me that the politicians only care about the "middle class". They care nothing about us, even those of us who want to be middle class someday...Like now but it's out of reach. What about some of us who DO have ambition, passion and desire but seem to have problems that act as shackles, keeping us pinned to the ground, thus keeping our material wants out of reach. I've heard about blogs for a few years now so I'm going to try it. I'll be blogging about anything on the top of my head. Anything from politics to being a mom to being unemployed. I can't make any promises about what I will and won't be posting about. Love me or hate me, take it or leave it. I have a voice and I will speak my mind. Okay, here goes nothing.