Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Why I created it...

I am creating this blog for the generation that I am from and social demographic that I was raised in. That being, middle class America.

If you are like me, you have found yourself coming out of college with a great degree, with more debt than anyone our age should ever be burdened with and the desire to get ahead asap.

As sour as the economy has been I do thank God for being given the opportunities that we're presented to me. I was laid off twice in 5 months but stuck through it and landed a very steady job. When I first graduated I didn't have the common sense and wherewithal to realize the most important thing an individual fresh out of college can do is get a full time job and start saving asap. The economy was hot late 06 to early 07 and I got greedy.

Let me just interrupt my thought here for everyone to realize that I am not a person who seeks wealth for power. I got greedy because I wanted to get out of debt asap. I put myself entirely through college and wanted to go to the college of my dreams and unfortunately got very little help doing so.

Since I came out of college with little experience I got pretty much bottom barrel starting salary as a software engineer and forced myself to find something that would be more rewarding for a long day of work. I scoured hundreds of websites and spent countless hours trying to something... ANYTHING that I could do to earn an extra buck while I was on the weekends while trying to maintain somewhat of a natural lifestyle early 20 year-old's enjoy fresh out of college. I tried things like "Apple Patch Diet" which basically posts its links for you and apparently "starts earning income right away" and "work at home data entry" which I even paid $300 dollars for and spent countless hours training myself in its field. Long story short none of this panned out to what everyone online swears it to be...

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