Apparently, I am Poor and In Need of Assistance...

Just make sure your income tax returns are in order first...

lol - No thanks! I'm going to roll in my Durango until the wheels fall off

I hate car payments. My wife wants to get a new car, but it doesn't make
sense to me. The Durango is only 4 years old or so and still runs great, plus
we can drive it out on the beach

Haha yep I'd go with that! The look on the counsellor's face would be priceless!

Jeremy,

Thanks for that story! I laughed out loud, still have a smile on my face.

Marcia Yudkin

Stop the charade! We know you are poor. Why fight the help others want to give you?

While your at it, where is your new WSO? - YES! There really is such a thing as a FREE LUNCH! Stop paying and start eating! Learn my techniques to doing nothing all day and getting a Free lunch! Only $97

Jeremy, it might be time to add a "Buy Me a Beer' button on the little guy's blog. That way he could see how this whole thing works.

KJ

Hahaha that's great!

Whilst I do kinda like the mystery factor IM has to most regular people(bemused looks on their faces when you tell them what you do), it can also lead to embarrassing/uncomfortable(although entertaining) situations like this. If someone like Jeremy is 'poor and in need of assistance', someone like me(and a lot of us IM mere mortals) must be homeless and without 2 pennies to rub together

When kids ask my daughter what her father does, she just tells them that
he plays video games all day.

It's Jeremy's 3 year old that's going to be the next big internet marketing sensation. He makes a cameo on every video that Jeremy puts out.

That's so funny! Great story and thanks for sharing...

It's a little tongue in cheek, but my 16 year old daughter tells everyone I make the pop ups. Now some of her friends are mad at me for interrupting their computers.

On a more serious note, I found it hard to get my family to understand that I was actually working. Especially in the beginning when there wasn't any money coming in.

I love things that kids say.

My kids are self educated and don't go to school anymore. My 11 year old daughter & I were in Game Stop the other morning buying Guitar Hero and the cashier asked her why she wasn't in school. My daughter, with a straight face said, 'I dropped out in the first grade. It was cutting into my playstation time".

My husband told her to say that. LOL

Jeremy - this is wayyy too funny! What's sad (haha) is I can totally relate to you, I sat here laughing my *ss off but at the same time, nodding my head.

Similar thing happened to me years ago when my daughter was in her early years of school...

On one side of it when the teacher asked if her mom would be home, my daughter said, "yeah, she works ALL the time". (They thought I just played on the pc lol). Of course then it looked like I didn't spend much time with my daughter, when in fact as soon as she came home I stopped work and picked it back up after she went to bed ) (Obviously explains why at 13 1/2 now, she's actually very close to me - shocking for a teen girl LOL).

Another time, in grade one, they put the kids into a class to learn computers. (Now, picture ANY one of us who work on the net all day, being forced to sit down to a "this is a computer, this is how you start it" discussion )

She was bored.

So the teacher asked if something was wrong, if she was having trouble with it.

She said, "No, I'm just bored, I have one at home and I know how to use it".

Teacher says, "Oh, your parents have a computer at home? Or do you play video games on your tv?" (Obviously thinking playstation).

My daughter says, "no, I have my OWN computer. My dad built it for me and my mom taught me how to use it".

Apparently the teacher was just a little shocked that we had each had our own computers in the house (actually far more lol).

The teacher questionned further, thinking she was hearing wrong, so she asked what we do... my daughter said, "my dad fixes and builds computers... my mom does something on the internet".

"Something". LOL!

Can totally picture this too Kevin My hubby went on field trips a few times too... until he got a little annoyed that they thought he always had the free time to go on EVERY class trip! LOL! (None were overnighters though).

Its classic to see the look on people's faces though - Jeremy, did you get a chance yet to explain it to the school?

Curious to see what they'd say.

Its even more funny when people *assume* you can't afford something, practically refuse to sell you something (because they think you can't afford it), then you walk in with something that blows them away cuz someone else WOULD sell it to you.

We had a guy (friend actually) who ran a used car lot, who refused to sell us a car when we were in need of a new one, shortly after things turned fantastic for us online. He was willing to "loan us" the money to buy the car, we could make payments to him, on a car that was a $5000 used car. (We were just starting to look). We said it wasn't necessary, but he seriously thought we were in dire straits. (Okay, we had been tight financially a year before that, but we were okay by this point).

We left without buying anything, deciding to think more about it. (I wanted a new car, not used).

A couple of weeks later, my hubby saw him driving a one or two year old pontiac grand prix. My hubby asks how much one of those was going for. Our friend's answer: "You couldn't afford it"! :confused:

I wish I had on video his expression when we pulled up and saw him about 3 weeks later in our brand new Lexus LOL!

Classic. (Then he had his son come work for me for a while till I had to fire him for not doing anything LOL).

But its funny how as this thread has said - people either think you "do nothing", or don't believe you CAN earn a living online.... funny seeing faces when you see their responses and reactions

Amber

Get a job man

Oh, this made me giggle.

Now, what do we do about the grown-up relatives who still insist that we're not "really" working?