Well, today was one heck of a curve ball. Now if only I could find some work..

jettblackEST

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"Curve ball" is a very serious understatement.

I woke up to a knock on my door at 7:30 this morning.
As I open it, my two half pits decide to try and kill each other.
While breaking them up, one of them bit a huge gash in my hand, causing me to bleed all over the floor.
I've had them both since they were born, finding them a new home will destroy me.
But apparently it destroyed my fiance first. She flipped out, then left me shortly after.
Both of the gigs I was excited for wrote me back with a polite "no thank you."
Now I'm sitting here alone, broke, hurting, and unemployed.

Hopefully my misfortunes will brighten someone's day.
 
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To find some work would definitely be a big improvement. I don't know why but I went from staying busy all the time to spending 200 connects on Upwork and not getting one job out of it. I just need some work, whether it's gig, part time, full time, whatever. I just need something because its really starting to make me feel like a bad person, parent, etc.
 
jettblackEST said:
To find some work would definitely be a big improvement. I don't know why but I went from staying busy all the time to spending 200 connects on Upwork and not getting one job out of it. I just need some work, whether it's gig, part time, full time, whatever. I just need something because its really starting to make me feel like a bad person, parent, etc.
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Life threw a tough one at you to say the least. On the brightside, there's nowhere to go but up. Keep applying to jobs and gigs, have to keep digging ;)
 
reaaski said:
What people have in heads to keep wolves at home. It's XXI Century.

Frankly I want to boil and eat a dog.

I had community service to service dogs. I didn't go to serve as I can't stand dogs. Now I have to escape country due to sentence prison for 9 months which is replacement for undone service.

I also want to buy a machine gun because of my "misfortune". What if we make the day of retribution happen.

As to work, emigration is key.
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Oh, man. I'd say facing the dislike for dogs would've been preferred over 9 month prison sentence?

Don't point the machine gun at me for saying this, there probably were better ways to handle this, but now at least document your law enforcement evasion journey here :D

Can I ask what landed you in trouble in the first place?
 
AshOasis said:
Oh, man. I'd say facing the dislike for dogs would've been preferred over 9 month prison sentence?

Don't point the machine gun at me for saying this, there probably were better ways to handle this, but now at least document your law enforcement evasion journey here :D

Can I ask what landed you in trouble in the first place?
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Posession of cartoons and funny cigs. Not much.

I got angry off anger of angry people and didn't want to service. I'll try again. I'll explain one more time what went wrong. :D
 
jettblackEST said:
"Curve ball" is a very serious understatement.

I woke up to a knock on my door at 7:30 this morning.
As I open it, my two half pits decide to try and kill each other.
While breaking them up, one of them bit a huge gash in my hand, causing me to bleed all over the floor.
I've had them both since they were born, finding them a new home will destroy me.
But apparently it destroyed my fiance first. She flipped out, then left me shortly after.
Both of the gigs I was excited for wrote me back with a polite "no thank you."
Now I'm sitting here alone, broke, hurting, and unemployed.

Hopefully my misfortunes will brighten someone's day.
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I am very sorry about all of this happening to you, but I guarantee things will get better in a month's time. I am also going through some tough stuff now, and I know it only can get better with time and perspective. As others have nicely done, I will do the same and give you a virtual "hug" as well.
Mark my words; this will not define you!!!
 
jettblackEST said:
To find some work would definitely be a big improvement. I don't know why but I went from staying busy all the time to spending 200 connects on Upwork and not getting one job out of it. I just need some work, whether it's gig, part time, full time, whatever. I just need something because its really starting to make me feel like a bad person, parent, etc.
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No need to feel like shit, it's not your fault. Couple months ago I lost all clients. Talked with freelancer friends from various countries and they got drop in clients too, friend that worked in an agency - his employer stopped paying till he just left. Right now I started getting clients again but it's slower than usual, less response rate for outreach, etc. I know people online love to say you can control everything and everything depends on you, but in this case I really think there was/is some low in the economy (it might depend on your niche, service, etc of course, some things might be in more or less demand). On the plus side, when I was furnishing my new place I got literally every furniture piece with a discount xD. Generally small businesses complained more than usual during this time and I've seen bad things happen on my clients ad accounts (except 1 niche that was doing just fine, got shitload of leads and I got paid very little... Yeah).
 
SilverClouds said:
No need to feel like shit, it's not your fault. Couple months ago I lost all clients. Talked with freelancer friends from various countries and they got drop in clients too, friend that worked in an agency - his employer stopped paying till he just left. Right now I started getting clients again but it's slower than usual, less response rate for outreach, etc. I know people online love to say you can control everything and everything depends on you, but in this case I really think there was/is some low in the economy (it might depend on your niche, service, etc of course, some things might be in more or less demand). On the plus side, when I was furnishing my new place I got literally every furniture piece with a discount xD. Generally small businesses complained more than usual during this time and I've seen bad things happen on my clients ad accounts (except 1 niche that was doing just fine, got shitload of leads and I got paid very little... Yeah).
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Back when I first started working online I actually loved the chaos of it all. It was almost like gambling, in a way. Some days you're just killing it; leads chatting you up, invoices paid early and life is good. Then there's the bad days where your deposits somehow get lost, your clients forget how to answer an email, and Reddit takes down your posts just because. I feel like I've been on a month long run of non stop bad days and its getting old.
 
Amateurs. You need to learn how to not give a fck. I think your freelance based businesses are not much better than selling on local bazar.

Just my humble opinion.

And it's more effort, probably close to analyzing scientific data.

Do you even make $70k annum with it? If not, you're just wasting your time.

Get a job. Learn a skill. Forget freelancing...

It's the least stable way of making money I can think of. So if you don't have months of 20k+ revenue, then it's just a worse type of job. Much worse. Probably comparable to modern slavery.

Go big or get a job... $20k a month you can get with a team of 5 people. Not that much. I saw it too many times to keep on repeating it's worth mental effort and mental health and comfort to pursue less than that.

I'd rather have nothing than work my ass off to keep few clients who come and go. That's a trap.

Services where you have to do the work is probably the most job-like approach to business which will not build your business and only provide replacement for a job. A bad one. One where you don't have proper organization and your finances don't flow.

Business is all about cash flow. Without it, it's just a temporary gig. Anyone can have it.

I started that type of thing when I was teenager. I lived in denial of how bad it was for me until I realized recently. It doesn't work.

As someone said, the dopamine hits you like you gamble. But tf is this? It's a catastrophe to make money off things like that long term.
 
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reaaski said:
Amateurs. You need to learn how to not give a fck. I think your freelance based businesses are not much better than selling on local bazar.

Just my humble opinion.

And it's more effort, probably close to analyzing scientific data.

Do you even make $70k annum with it? If not, you're just wasting your time.

Get a job. Learn a skill. Forget freelancing...

It's the least stable way of making money I can think of. So if you don't have months of 20k+ revenue, then it's just a worse type of job. Much worse. Probably comparable to modern slavery.

Go big or get a job... $20k a month you can get with a team of 5 people. Not that much. I saw it too many times to keep on repeating it's worth mental effort and mental health and comfort to pursue less than that.

I'd rather have nothing than work my ass off to keep few clients who come and go. That's a trap.

Services where you have to do the work is probably the most job-like approach to business which will not build your business and only provide replacement for a job. A bad one. One where you don't have proper organization and your finances don't flow.

Business is all about cash flow. Without it, it's just a temporary gig. Anyone can have it.

I started that type of thing when I was teenager. I lived in denial of how bad it was for me until I realized recently. It doesn't work.

As someone said, the dopamine hits you like you gamble. But tf is this? It's a catastrophe to make money off things like that long term.
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It's shit but when I tried to get 9 to 5 in the same profession a job would pay less and require more work hours. Not a big fan of freelancing, but it's a lesser evil.
 
SilverClouds said:
It's shit but when I tried to get 9 to 5 in the same profession a job would pay less and require more work hours. Not a big fan of freelancing, but it's a lesser evil.
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Not the same profession. You don't work in profession unless you have a brand / good career in comfortable place with good people. I know it's ton of work but what am I supposed to lie here...

You need trust in business of big boys who will let you play big with their budgets. Otherwise, don't work any marketing.
 
reaaski said:
Not the same profession. You don't work in profession unless you have a brand / good career in comfortable place with good people.
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By that definition most people in most professions don't have a profession xD
 
SilverClouds said:
By that definition most people in most professions don't have a profession xD
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I have x professions. My friends at work the same.

We don't work in our profrssions. Why?

Minimum wage in Poland makes it that almost every job pays the same now. With 30% deviance for some. But 30% increase isn't worth effort.

Work comfortably that's all. It's a long run so don't rush this and that idea.

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/massive-saturation-of-everything-not-as-easy-as-before.1576843/page-5#post-17399215
The above is how to scale. Don't do unscalable or where you can't scale.


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They all have professions. Problem is they're not leveraging it. You don't work in profession to hurt yourself and get mediocre results. You work to shine.

I won't go to software house as an engineer and burnout. I wouldn't even get accepted but that's another problem.

So I'll use engineering skill in business and get to work on serious scalable shit.

If someone is a doctor (expert at healing), they're not money making experts. Sociopaths like Tate are experts. You need little bjt of Machiavelli mindset. Not full but little bit.
 
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Tate is involved in money laundering and sex trafficking. Of course mafia makes shitloads of money, but I'm personally not a fan of a guy that does sex trafficking.
 
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