My Journey - From work a holic to wheelchair

byJamcoman

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Updated 6 years ago

All my life I have been a workaholic. I did not stop to smell the roses. It was very rare for me to take a vacation. I had my own business as a Chimney Sweep and Stove installer. I was busy all year round. Never did I have to advertise. I offered a fair price and I always showed up on time. At the age of 62 I came down with mouth cancer caused by the sun.

I went to holistic medicine but it did not work. The cancer hospital put me on radiation and chemotherapy. I then needed surgery. This hospital did not have the expertise to deal with my case. I was sent to Jefferson hospital. There I went through 23 hours of surgery. When I woke up, I did not have a tong or any teeth. They had to replace my lower jaw using my shoulder blade and used my skin and tissue to replace the skin on my chin. I don't have a lower lip.

After a few months I got a job as a warehouse assistant. This allowed me to maintain my bills. I was on Social Security and my part time job worked out well even though I was unable to talk.

About six weeks in I was on my way home from work on a Saturday afternoon. An SUV driven by a drug dealer ran the red light and hit me in the side. They found drugs and a loaded pistol in his car. It took rescue forty minutes to cut me out of my car. I was frowned to the same cancer hospital I went to for cancer treatment. I had a concussion, broken ribs, cracked vertebra, and my lower right leg was crushed. As you watch the video, remember I was in the red car. Video of my accident

Is My Life Ovr Now?

There I was lying in a hospital bed in my sun room thinking, how will I make my bills after my savings are all gone? Is my life over now? The guy that hit me only had the lowest insurance allowed by law and he did not one anything. I got twelve thousand and my hospital bills were paid but I will never walk again. Life some times sends you a curb ball. Ok I started to sell things that I will not ever used to help pay my bills.

There is only so much that I can sell so now what? Oh I can buy things low or free and sell them. Letgo.com you can list your things for sale for free. That's a whole lot better than eBay which has an awesome client base and your item usually sells fast but there are fees involved.

There has to be a better way. My wife does not work, in fact she had never had a job. Lucky her. I started looking around the internet and found a few great opportunities. I started to recruit people into the business. My business started to grow then just before I was to get the big pay off, the website disappeared. You can imagine how upset I was. There are a lot of bad people out there. I started to get depressed. Why is life this way. How can I try to make it better? Is there a way to help others from falling victim to the bad people of this world? After all, I'm only one person.

The internet reaches all across the world. The only barrier is language. There are programs out there that will translate a website to almost any language. Ok so this is not really a problem. So now I want to build a website but I don't know anything about building a website. I would'nt even know where to began. The cost of having someone else build one for me is too costly. I can't afford that. So I keep looking. Guess what I found. Wrong, I found Wix.com.

Oh its so easy to build a website they say. I tried it. Lost was not the word. They had very little training. How do I know if I'm doing this right? Will the search engine like what I had done. Will it rank? Where do I have to advertise so that my business will start to make money? will the cost of advertising cost me more than what i'm making?

I saw the Light at the end of the Tunnel

There it was, the light at the end of the tunnel. My only hope is that when I get to the end, that the light will still be on. There it was, at least I thought I had found the answer I was looking for. Right in front of me was an add by Wealthy Affiliate. I took the time to check it out. They are telling me that I can build my very own money producing website. They have the training that will take you by the hand and gently teach you how to build the best website that if you follow their training will rank on the first page. I discovered that they have all the tools to do this for me.

Okay I can sign up for free and take their training while I'm building my website. They have a community of like-minded people with the same goals. Is this for real? How come I never heard of them? I decided that I wanted to try this for free and so I signed on. I quickly learned that I needed to commit to this training and take it very seriously. Going through the courses lying on my back with an iPad without dated browsers was not easy at all. Sometimes I had to go to my laptop to get a few things done.

Its true and Wealthy Affiliate has helped me make my Website and I know now what it will take to get ranked on the first page for my keyword rich content. Thank you, Weathly Affiliate. Most of all Thank You, Kyle and Carson. You have helped me and countless other people find there dreams.