Not Prince Hamlet

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This blog post is to introduce myself. My name is Jim and I’m a retiree in Seal Beach, California. The title of this post is from a poem by T.S. Eliot. It pretty well sums up how I see myself. I’m not the main character, even in my own story. “ Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role” is what I’m going for. Not sure if it’s humility, cowardice, or just laziness.

So why Wealthy Affiliate? My original motivation was money. My fixed income doesn’t quite cover my needs. I’d like to earn a little more. But my age and health problems make a “get up and go to work” job impossible. I’m pretty much housebound. So, since I spend most of my day on my iPad, a lot of the time on social media. I figured I’d look into ways to monetize my online presence.

I started perusing YouTube on the subject and, well you know what I found. Hundreds of twenty something millionaires willing to take a little time off from driving their Lamborghinis to show how I too could become rich overnight— for a price, of course. It was very discouraging . . . And very sleezy.

But one channel did impress me. It belonged to a young man who called himself BenjisDad. He too was talking about making money online, but more realistically. He didn’t pretend it would be fast or easy. He had an air of trust and sincerity and a very genuine natural online personality. No hyped up sales rant. When he recommended Wealthy Affiliate I checked it out.

I was immediately impressed. The scams all say “Give us a big hunk of cash up front and we’ll tell you our secrets.” WA said “come in, check us out, use our software, take a few courses, all at no cost. Then if you decide it’s worth it, you can subscribe.”

This is going on too long so I’ll save my early experiences with WA for another post. Suffice it to say I’m now a premium member.

More later.

TheJimB

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