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Yesterday - Birthday - Today confusion

by Smeltzer
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I tell you nothing like having a birthday that coincides with a drinking holiday in the states and spring break. It is straight up insane. I am truly thankful for the cards life has dealt me.

Turning 38 made me realize I have no real world creds. If I was to write a resume *god forbid* of real world places I have worked it would be virtually empty. For some reason this really really bothered me yesterday.

I am semi-famous in some circles. I use to be an Admin at a time was a pretty big forum. I made a lot of friends made some enemies. Made some bad choices. Made some great ones.

I am the only person since penguin to take a brand new site and rank it for Make Money Online in one month and hold that position for one month. *Taste the sauce smells like money there*

I was responsible for a big forum's SEO. Even tackling other big forum's names and outranking them for there very own brand. Yes I am that guy. I will not mention the forums or say what forum I did this for not trying to generate any hate on myself.

Yet I have no real world office experience. I notice here in Clearwater there is a lot of SEO companies. Yet everyone and there brother claims to be a SEO pro so getting a legit job at one of these places is damn near impossible. I also wonder if I must follow and do there templates or will they let me implement things I know and have proven to work.

Perhaps maybe I should open up a for service thread here get some testimonials and maybe add those to a resume or link to the thread in my email copy to these places.

I do not know why but I want the experience of working in an office. I want to see what it is like to be a part of a physical team instead of a virtual one. I mean yeah maybe just maybe I should open up my own and try that way but then there is this whole hiring and firing thing I really do not want to deal with that. Much easier to do that kind of stuff online can not look someone in the eye and say you are FIRED.

So what is your take on this? Is it silly I want real world creds and to try my hand at working in an office? Is it silly I want to beef up a real world resume?

Also why is this bothering me soo much? Maybe I am suffering some kind of mid-life crisis or maybe because I skipped some steps in my life I am trying to go back and fill it in. I have no clue what is going on inside this brain of mine.
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  • Profile picture of the author discrat
    Hey Christopher,
    It sounds like you are going 'backwards' as it is related to the Mindset of most of the people here at WF.

    I mean, you want to taste what it is like to be a part of the Office and Team, where most of us just do not want to have ANYTHING to do with that.

    So I am not sure you will get any opinions or answers from people here that will sit good with you



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  • Profile picture of the author hbennick
    Are you making any real money online? Take some cash, start an analog business. Go rent jet skis to tourists, open a coffee shop, flip houses, whatever. No reason to put all your eggs in one basket - diversify.
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      So lets assume you have been at least moderately successful at your online pursuits, clued up and able to extract a living from it from early on and even now.. Correct?

      That is what a lot of people who do work in offices dream of doing. For you though, you must have got into it at the dawn of the internet considering your age, embraced it, was successful at it, but have a clean slate as far as conventional work is concerned.

      True, if you can succeed at making money sitting at home in front of a computer then it is to be relished, but it is a solitary lifestyle and humans like social interactions both in business and leisure. Something has awakened your curiosity to perhaps experience that which you feel you have missed out on.

      Believe me, it is no picnic to have to get up early on a regular basis, go to a job, get told what to do, follow a set structure, do repetitive things all day, feel the tensions of others, sample office politics, hate your boss, put up with stupid people, and unless you get lucky and land something really good, have a drop in your earnings.

      The grass is always greener on the other side, nope not in this case. Perhaps though, you should try it for a few months, get it out of your system. Perhaps you will prefer the change, who knows? But, you will soon understand what I mean.

      If you do, you will come home tired, mentally drained and you may find that you cant always be bothered to keep up with your online pursuits. You will neglect them. It takes a lot of strong will and effort to keep up with staying focused online and hold down a job. The dream is to go all out online as opposed the job for most but few succeed.

      If you are somewhat a bit of a master at what you do and doing well it it I would find ways to go out into the real world and teach it to others. At least there is a bit of interaction with real people, something you seem to miss and crave.
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      • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
        Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

        The grass is always greener on the other side, nope not in this case. Perhaps though, you should try it for a few months, get it out of your system. Perhaps you will prefer the change, who knows? But, you will soon understand what I mean.

        If you do, you will come home tired, mentally drained and you may find that you cant always be bothered to keep up with your online pursuits. You will neglect them. It takes a lot of strong will and effort to keep up with staying focused online and hold down a job. The dream is to go all out online as opposed the job for most but few succeed.

        If you are somewhat a bit of a master at what you do and doing well it it I would find ways to go out into the real world and teach it to others. At least there is a bit of interaction with real people, something you seem to miss and crave.
        Yes, l read about someone who was sick of their job, and started an online business, (l think that it was writing).

        And he typically worked on it til the morning hours.


        Then he worked on it more and more, til he literally worked on it all night.

        This obvious went on for a while and his daytime work suffered, got there late, didn't do all the daily tasks, etc.

        Then eventually he got fired, and then made the decision to get this to work, which he eventually did!


        Even when you have found that right path and know what to do, (like l have) it might still look iffy, but one thing you quickly learn online is that, persistence can lead to good opportunities, or new businesses and opportunities can arise, even if most of the well established ones, are dead!

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  • Profile picture of the author NeedBucksNow
    There is always Skype if you wanting to work with people online and still be able to see them and have the real interaction that you are looking for. I understand that is one of the good things about working in the real world and I would often be ready to go, just to be able to see my friends. If you are making money online, then you already have that safety net of not having to worry about the security of your job and can actually go to work just to have something to do and insurance
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  • Profile picture of the author positivenegative
    Originally Posted by Smeltzer View Post

    I tell you nothing like having a birthday that coincides with a drinking holiday in the states and spring break. It is straight up insane. I am truly thankful for the cards life has dealt me.

    Turning 38 made me realize I have no real world creds. If I was to write a resume *god forbid* of real world places I have worked it would be virtually empty. For some reason this really really bothered me yesterday.

    I am semi-famous in some circles. I use to be an Admin at a time was a pretty big forum. I made a lot of friends made some enemies. Made some bad choices. Made some great ones.

    I am the only person since penguin to take a brand new site and rank it for Make Money Online in one month and hold that position for one month. *Taste the sauce smells like money there*

    I was responsible for a big forum's SEO. Even tackling other big forum's names and outranking them for there very own brand. Yes I am that guy. I will not mention the forums or say what forum I did this for not trying to generate any hate on myself.

    Yet I have no real world office experience. I notice here in Clearwater there is a lot of SEO companies. Yet everyone and there brother claims to be a SEO pro so getting a legit job at one of these places is damn near impossible. I also wonder if I must follow and do there templates or will they let me implement things I know and have proven to work.

    Perhaps maybe I should open up a for service thread here get some testimonials and maybe add those to a resume or link to the thread in my email copy to these places.

    I do not know why but I want the experience of working in an office. I want to see what it is like to be a part of a physical team instead of a virtual one. I mean yeah maybe just maybe I should open up my own and try that way but then there is this whole hiring and firing thing I really do not want to deal with that. Much easier to do that kind of stuff online can not look someone in the eye and say you are FIRED.

    So what is your take on this? Is it silly I want real world creds and to try my hand at working in an office? Is it silly I want to beef up a real world resume?

    Also why is this bothering me soo much? Maybe I am suffering some kind of mid-life crisis or maybe because I skipped some steps in my life I am trying to go back and fill it in. I have no clue what is going on inside this brain of mine.

    What a completely nonsense post. Learn how to communicate with people first - in plain English rather than "babble" speak, and maybe you'd not have half the problems you've apparently got now.

    Just my opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I have many years of real world working experience and I wouldn't trade it for anything. You've mentioned all the things you've done online .... are you actually making any money?
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  • Profile picture of the author Frank Donovan
    Originally Posted by Smeltzer View Post

    I am semi-famous in some circles.
    That's nothing - I am fully famous in some semi-circles. And Claude is famous for being almost completely circular.

    Oh, and just FYI..
    If you did you would see I actually have been making money online since before the warrior forum even was a thing.<snip> I have been online and doing business since 1999.
    I'm pretty sure this forum was started around 1997.

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