I am always amazed how consumers surplant the need for hard work and ingenuity for laziness and ignorance. Oh don't start in with me - I am not calling anyone names - unless you are the consumer I'm blasting - if that's the case feel free to rip into me with your misguided qualms and underrepresented assessments. Even if you were able to muster up enough energy to get off the couch and move your fingers to the keys, you still would not do me as grave of a disservice as you have done yourself by spending your hard earned dollars on these 'get rich today', 'don't lift a finger to make money', 'you'll be rich in 48 hours or less', scams.

Don't get me wrong, I am all for making money. I'm all for doing it the best, most simple, and lucrative way possible. Hey, I'm even a little lazy at times. But, the difference between me and the next lazy person is, I refuse to be bamboozled. I refuse to put one buck into somebody else's pocket with no guarantee on any returns. Before I do that - hey, I'm going to do a little investigating. Snooping around you know. And that is just what I did. Now, this may be a little daunting for some of you because I know how trying research can be. Been there - done that - wrote that manual. Brace yourself for this litany of tasks that might possibly save you some untold fortunes in the future. Hold your breath and try not to become to exascerbated by the tasks that will soon be set before you -- READY...

The first thing you do before you put yet another, $2.95 to purchase a Google Start Up kit is --- PICK UP THE DANG PHONE...I did it and guess what - IT WORKED.

I called the Google office in Atlanta, GA and asked simply, "Can you please give me more information about your Google Start up Kits." You know what the rep on the phone said? He said, "Ma'am are you talking about the ones all over the internet. If so, that is not a Google product. Google does not have any work at home jobs. Everyone who works for Google reports to an office." Did you catch that? First, I picked up the phone. Then I asked a question. And then - well, that's pretty much it and dang it if I still don't have more energy. How about that - not a drop of sweat on me. Granted my fingers hurt a tad from all that dialing and my ear aches a teensy weensy bit from holding it for the 2 seconds it took the rep to answer my question - but other than that, I'm A-OK.

Listen, there is no accounting for the hard work that goes into building a business. I believe in at home businesses. This country was built on them. I even believe in Google. Google has the AdSense opportunity, but even that will not garner you untold fortunes, not until you build up enough traffic to your website and visitors really start clicking on those links, and even then, you wont become a Donald Trump or Bill Gates. It takes time, patience and a lot of hard work to make your business great.

My lasting advice - DO YOUR HOMEWORK. I know it doesn't sound like much money to send just to ‘see' if something is what it claims to be, but think of how many "suckers" out there (and I used to be one) have sent these scammers $2.95 and gotten rich that way. No. Take a vow today to do the research. Hard work is where real fortunes begin. So, let's get to work.