Your Worst Financial Situation and How You Emerged From It
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I was once at negative fifteen hundred in PayPal in march this year and I wrote my ass off to get cleared. I called it even in april and I have gone fishing since then. I had one thing that motivated me to go on. I would like to share.
Not surprisingly this is also the reason I went into a deficit.
Not surprisingly this is also the reason I went into a deficit.
Lowest point for me is: $34k+ credit card debt. Less than a buck in the checking account. Rent is past due. No money to buy food. Hungry as fuck.
How I got out of it? That was "easy." I went to a corner where all illegal immigrants get picked up to do shit work and elbowed my way into a car that stopped.
I was probably the only person in that crowd who could actually legally work. Yet, $6/hr paid in cash at the end of the day every day no questions asked was a better deal than getting minimum wage (with taxes subtracted) paid with a check two weeks after you begin.
From there, I eventually got a steady job working for one of the people who "picked me up" there, and worked my ass off hauling fabric bolts for several months.
It was actually a pretty good life experience.
How I got out of it? That was "easy." I went to a corner where all illegal immigrants get picked up to do shit work and elbowed my way into a car that stopped.
I was probably the only person in that crowd who could actually legally work. Yet, $6/hr paid in cash at the end of the day every day no questions asked was a better deal than getting minimum wage (with taxes subtracted) paid with a check two weeks after you begin.
From there, I eventually got a steady job working for one of the people who "picked me up" there, and worked my ass off hauling fabric bolts for several months.
It was actually a pretty good life experience.
Even im drunk ads fuck am not gpoing to shit ya. I was so low i piced up trash at the landfill. But I was yopung, dumb and ful of cum. the best advise Ihave ever gotten was "keep going forward" Iknow is sound stupid but it it does pay of in th elong run. Fucj all the bs pimps and niggas all you gotta be is real and work your ass off. to be your own boss you must take responcibility for yerself.
titties never hurts either
titties never hurts either
never really been in debt but at 16-18 I worked part time and saved up about 6k. then I started playing poker and dropped it all in 3 months being a degen. during this time I had to move out and live on a friends lay-z boy for a few weeks. during this time I screwed around on the internet while looking for a job. screwing around meant macking on hot bitches myspaces trying to get laid. this was when myspace was just starting to take off and an idea just hit me when I posted a link to a video in this one girls comment section. the video got like 1000 hits in a few hours and I was like fuck why don't I just spam links on hot bitches profiles all day and make money that way it works for people who sell dick pills through email. so I tried this out with dumb shit and eventually settled on pay per install programs and within 2 weeks i had the whole operation scaled to like 1500 popular profiles making like $500-$700 a day. basically wrote comments for like 6 hours everyday by hand SUCH A GRIND. I didn't want to hire anyone to do it for me because I was super paranoid that anyone willing to do this for money would see how easy it is to do and start doing it themselves.
anyways I was like the comment spam pioneer because I don't think I ever saw someone monetize profile comments before me. I did this for a few months by hand and then some people smarter than me started making bots, I got one and automated everything. hit an earnings ceiling before I got the bot so I wasn't making any more but I was basically doing the same 5 hours work with about 10 seconds of effort.
in like 6 months I had my own place and about $60k saved up and tried my hand at other things but I wasn't successful and I kind of gave up with the internet marketing game. would have loved to keep spamming comments but a few dumbass 16 year olds screwed that up for everyone who was thinking about it past level 1. seriously if there's one thing that pisses me off it's the retards who thought it was a good idea to phish a million profiles to make a $1000. you shot everyone in the foot with that move. some of you even went to jail or were ordered to pay 10 fold what you made. stupid tax anyone? that makes me laugh.
but like I said no more internet marketing. luckily for me I'm a dumbass myself and tried poker again, this time though I played smart and started with like $100 and 100% focus on improving everyday. now I support myself with that and I'm thinking of moving to vegas/la to teach myself casino pokers. and by teach myself I mean learning how to keep my sanity while playing like 35 hands an hour when I normally play like 500. the money is there though which is all that matters. I'll keep playing online but I need to diversify my skillset because the future of online poker is looking a little hazy.
anyways I was like the comment spam pioneer because I don't think I ever saw someone monetize profile comments before me. I did this for a few months by hand and then some people smarter than me started making bots, I got one and automated everything. hit an earnings ceiling before I got the bot so I wasn't making any more but I was basically doing the same 5 hours work with about 10 seconds of effort.
in like 6 months I had my own place and about $60k saved up and tried my hand at other things but I wasn't successful and I kind of gave up with the internet marketing game. would have loved to keep spamming comments but a few dumbass 16 year olds screwed that up for everyone who was thinking about it past level 1. seriously if there's one thing that pisses me off it's the retards who thought it was a good idea to phish a million profiles to make a $1000. you shot everyone in the foot with that move. some of you even went to jail or were ordered to pay 10 fold what you made. stupid tax anyone? that makes me laugh.
but like I said no more internet marketing. luckily for me I'm a dumbass myself and tried poker again, this time though I played smart and started with like $100 and 100% focus on improving everyday. now I support myself with that and I'm thinking of moving to vegas/la to teach myself casino pokers. and by teach myself I mean learning how to keep my sanity while playing like 35 hands an hour when I normally play like 500. the money is there though which is all that matters. I'll keep playing online but I need to diversify my skillset because the future of online poker is looking a little hazy.
Even im drunk ads fuck am not gpoing to shit ya. I was so low i piced up trash at the landfill. But I was yopung, dumb and ful of cum. the best advise Ihave ever gotten was "keep going forward" Iknow is sound stupid but it it does pay of in th elong run. Fucj all the bs pimps and niggas all you gotta be is real and work your ass off. to be your own boss you must take responcibility for yerself.
titties never hurts either
My Life Story
Bahahaha, spammer back in 06? Man, my best day with that shit was about $15k, with $0 expenses. That was the life...
I invested my school fees into stock futures and I was down to Zero. Had to ask Dad for the money again. Dad wasn't too angry.. he thought It was part of the curriculum since I was studying business.. But I felt like a messy pile of shit
I'm sorry to break it to you but your dad is a dumb shit. Stop taking handouts and make a fucking dime on your own. I know this is vague but that is the point.
nice, but yea I was nowhere near that so I can't relate at all lol. going from looking through the papers for minimum wage to doing myspace was fun though. the guy i lived with thought i was selling drugs over the internet but i was around him all the time and he never saw anything so he would give me a wtf on the daily. for obvious reasons everything I did while living with him was never explained until after.
0hh Back in 2005 five checked into detox after a bender of 5 weeks. Woke up few days later after I checked in got my ass in rehab. I was 23 years old and didnt have anything I lost my apartment and didnt have any funds or any job, and negative $17,000:-.
Went to Norway and work my ass in a fish factory6-7 days a week and pulling 10-12 hours every day. Since then have I got myself out of debt kept sober and clean traveled the world. I'm really successful in my line of work, and I just started a few months ago focusing on IM, and resonantly quit my job so i can give this ago on full time. The best part is I cant see how this is going to go wrong I've had enough success in my life today in different ares so I know what it takes if you want to become in the top 5% off something. The Secret is HARD WORK bite sizes of knowledge and apply everything to test it.
-M
Went to Norway and work my ass in a fish factory6-7 days a week and pulling 10-12 hours every day. Since then have I got myself out of debt kept sober and clean traveled the world. I'm really successful in my line of work, and I just started a few months ago focusing on IM, and resonantly quit my job so i can give this ago on full time. The best part is I cant see how this is going to go wrong I've had enough success in my life today in different ares so I know what it takes if you want to become in the top 5% off something. The Secret is HARD WORK bite sizes of knowledge and apply everything to test it.
-M
government fucked my company and business model overnight went from making a shit ton to owing customs and excise $75,000, suppliers about $50,000 +, wages and commissions for over 50 staff, office rent, phone fax etc etc etc.
had to sell my house, empty my bank and savings and get a shitty job and run up about $60,000 of credit card debt.
shit nearly killed me
how did i get out, by never ever ever fucking giving up not once not for a fucking second did i quit trying to get out of it. didn't declare bankruptcy and have now paid it all off.
fuck you, fuck the world and fuck everyone and everything that aint me and is in my way.
never ever ever say die.
my plan is now extended by a few years but fuck every motherfucking last one of you, I am making it and will never stop making it.
you wanna stop me then you'd better be prepared to fucking kill me cos thats the only way you'll stop me.
put a barrier in my way and i'm going through it, under it, around it, over it or just blasting it outta the way.
there is a funny side though, when homeless people ask you for money in that situation they just dont understand that their net worth is a couple hundred k more than yours now thats irony.
and the best bit, i know for a fact that if the same shit happens again it aint no thing as i have done it once i can do it again
had to sell my house, empty my bank and savings and get a shitty job and run up about $60,000 of credit card debt.
shit nearly killed me
how did i get out, by never ever ever fucking giving up not once not for a fucking second did i quit trying to get out of it. didn't declare bankruptcy and have now paid it all off.
fuck you, fuck the world and fuck everyone and everything that aint me and is in my way.
never ever ever say die.
my plan is now extended by a few years but fuck every motherfucking last one of you, I am making it and will never stop making it.
you wanna stop me then you'd better be prepared to fucking kill me cos thats the only way you'll stop me.
put a barrier in my way and i'm going through it, under it, around it, over it or just blasting it outta the way.
there is a funny side though, when homeless people ask you for money in that situation they just dont understand that their net worth is a couple hundred k more than yours now thats irony.
and the best bit, i know for a fact that if the same shit happens again it aint no thing as i have done it once i can do it again
I was fucking dead broke failing at internet marketing about to put a gun in my mouf but then Jon showed up and said $50 for boobie pics and now I'm making monies posting titties on teh internet.
Shit, that sucks.. It's one thing being financially strapped, another having something working and losing it overnight. Still curious though how they could have fucked you over that bad, what happened to all the savings?
Heavy weekends and gambling got me in the shit. As far as being homeless, mountains of debt with the door getting hammered through etc. When you hit these lows though, it can usually be what's needed to trigger a switch in the mind. You start to appreciate things more and work smarter once forced into a corner. Rags to riches is always the best way.