"It's a long and a dusty road" wrote Tom Paxton

bymikehfisher

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5 years ago

The image above is of a very young looking Tom Paxton who was one of my favourite folk singers. I was always a folk junkie.

Famously he wrote this song, "I can't help but wonder where I'm bound"

It's a long and a dusty road, a hot and a heavy load

The folks I meet ain't always kind

Some are bad, some are good

Some have done the best they could

Some have tried to ease my troublin' mind

And I can't help but wonder where I'm bound

Where I'm bound

Can't help but wonder where I'm bound

If you don't know it, listen here...

I thought this almost appropriate except that:

I do not wonder where I am bound..I know where!! I will succeed and earn a retirement income with WA's help.

"Some are bad" has not been my experience in the WA community. Without fail, everyone I have interacted with has been kind and good and go out of their way to help. This is why I know "where I am bound".

My not-quite one-month-old journey has only reinforced the fact that most people need to acknowledge. If it were really easy, everybody would be doing it and the rewards minimal. Whatever is worth doing for good rewards is by definition not an easy road. "A long and dusty road".

I came here very sceptically, having been through numerous "get rich online schemes". I also came here quite arrogantly thinking that for me, as an IT professional of over 35 years, it should be a walk in the park. The truth is, in all those years, I never built a website. I was considered a networking and telecommunications expert but WordPress and SEO were for me vague terms that I understood almost nothing about.

Today, I am a lot wiser after about 3 weeks of training and trial and error and questions and discussions. A lot wiser but far from an expert. One day I will be. I may be old but you can still teach an old dog new tricks.

I have a deeply personal interest in the niche my site is based on. See

https://adult-autism.com/

My adult son, who now lives with me, is profoundly on the Autism Spectrum and this has had an enormous effect on my own life and of course his, including getting himself incarcerated.in prison and then a horrible state mental institution for 4 years, due to a violent autistic meltdown.

This niche is not so obviously suitable for affiliate products and revenue but I am passionate about the subject and my experience is that most autism sites are for childrens' resources and for developed countries. We live in a developing country, South Africa.

The site is still very much a work in progress. Content is a big challenge. Especially as most material on the web has been created by health professionals. I plan to try and make it more personal and anecdotal. I am pondering diarising his whole life story or biography but there are sensitive issues involved. Yet, I am proud of what I have achieved in this short time. I am proud if I help create awareness. Of course, very low traffic so far but Google has indexed me.. :)

In the next 3 months, I want to see a viable website, with some decent traffic and in 6 months time I want to make my sole income.

Thanks to all you special people out there for all the help and patience. I know I often have asked questions that are covered in future lessons but that's just my impatience and my male ego - you know that guys don't read instruction manuals!! :)