Thank you WA and Community for being Here!

byiblanco

478 followers

8 years ago

Sometime during the month of September of last year I was hit by a blast of reality. Even with all my good intentions and commitment I was not going to make any money here at WA in the immediate future. So I would have to return to the grind of playing for 12 to 14 hours per day as a busker to pay my bills, save my store and storages and get myself back on the road to financial health. So reluctantly, I had to give up my Premium membership and temporarily put a lid on my quest to become a Network Marketer.

With a heavy heart I had to get back into the space of being a busker in the Subway System which I had been doing for the last nineteen years. Although I made it fun( I am a musician first and foremost), it's also a grind- a totally stressful public life fraught with pan handlers, thieves, bullies, racists, bums and inconceivable inconveniences for which I had developed a thick skin. Pardon the overkill, most people are wonderful-they do tip.

My only alternative would be to sell my stuff- art, records, collectibles,electronics,books etc. That operation in itself was a laborious a task just to think about- never mind getting it done. I was in a Catch 22 situation- no money to do anything, not even to hire help to liquidate the assets; I was in fear of losing everything. Not only did I not have the funds but I knew nothing about the new technologies that had come into being over the last two decades that could bring me some funds. I was then busy playing and planning for the brick and mortar store (the only model I knew) which would be my vehicle for retirement.

So, like some people in my "old school' age group I struggled and still struggle with everything to do with technology e.g. I never think to look for information on Google, study tutorials on UTube, check for text messages, use apps, put things for sale on Kijiji, post or sell stuff on Facebook, sell on eBay, use the Music platforms on line etc. So I really could not help myself any other way but to go back to busking- a dreaded proposition. But I did. And I know now that those options I just mentioned exist because friends and well wishers suggested them along the way- that it was all so easy....like why couldn't I do this or that?

Well, the learning curves will take some time but I will do all of it. I know that I will because I have a tremendous community to support me. I did the work- yes I did suffer. I busted my fingers several times, have pains in my fingers and hands and my right shoulder is"out". But I paid all the bills, the outstanding rents on the storages; everything is up to date including my one year Premium Membership, the acquisition of which I consider my prime accomplishment of 2016- a true potential for success.

So I'm going back to the green box yet another time to Get Started Here. Thank you WA and Community for being Here.