I just lost my appeal for SSD, it totally knocked me for a loop, It was as if they wrote about a totally different person, my family is shocked and from what I can see they left out 2 neurosurgeons, 8 months of PT & an experimental pain clinic oh and anohter bone doc and a chiropracter, what the efffffffff happened to my file? why didn't the Hon. LT Swain use common sense, for Gods Sake.......I'm sorry I'm digressing - this thing has me in knots

anyway my better half (or so he thinks anyway) says you can make money on the internet - so I try to make money on the internet- well folks that’s just a load of hooey- maybe someone will read one of my articles and click on an ad and they'll send me a nickel for the click- in other words I still have no clue about what I am doing - I do know I'm Irish and since I don't get out like I used to theres alot of gab stored in me- but I'm lousy at selling things,- years ago I had a big old '66 ford custom - this woman and her kids came to look at it and while my friend was extolling the virtues of the clunker- I was telling her that the car was not for her because it was unreliable & held together with rubber bands, paperclips and band aids (cars were simpler then & in my opinion BETTER.-but it is not in my nature to convince someone they need something they don't, or to let someone in financial straights spend money on something they do not need or that maybe they need something like it - well hell I'm just as likely to send them to a competitor if I know they have a better product- I guess that’s why I get so angry at the scams that abound on the internet-

Some things are not out&out scams but promise more than they can deliver, I recently spoke to a woman who was going to be my 'coach' if I spent over $300 on their product and they would set me up with the website - now I am quite sure she made money at what she’s doing, she seemed like a very nice person and the company has an A+ rating with the BBB - but years ago I believed an infomercial for SMC- I mean who wouldn't believe Tom Bosley? no, they do not help you set up your website and if you have questions well you had better ask them the first time they call you because no matter how many times you call back you will never get a human again- oh that is until they call & harass you for a good grand - anyway back to this nice lady, I’m sure she wasn’t lying but the small print says “results are not necessarily representative of what you can or will earn …” and so I made some calls…I heard it was a good product, that didn’t surprise me because unless this lady was ready for an Oscar, again nice lady! Finally came upon one of my daughters friends, whose mom sold the stuff, no, it didn’t work for either herself or her sister and she lost money on it- now this lady is a lot more outgoing than myself and has worked sales in various capacities- she explained that my gut was correct that it is a good company in the way it’s structured, but what it comes down to is like a pyramid scheme where not everybody is going to make money.

Okay, so I’m back to writing articles, I really think I’m doing something wrong but I figure if I keep at it, it’ll come to me eventually (I hope) so it says add this or that, drag and drop this - I HAVE NO CLUE! The only thing I do know though is that every time I check my email there are more ’make money online’ emails & when I read other articles I can’t help myself, I click on the ads that say ‘increase your income, get the most profitable Google ad-sense key words’ - I‘m kinda adlibbing on the ads because even though I have some common sense, (hey there‘s always that pie in the sky hope) it’s embarrassing how quickly I click, eager to maybe find out that all along I’ve been doing the right thing, the wrong way although I still have no clue what an ad sense key word is, but I can’t figure out whether I’m too smart to give’em my card number or too broke - so I guess they’re not going to get rich off of me - just the same I entered “Google Ad-sense scams” in the Google box on the top of my screen and a page came up warning people about these scams, they want folks to read the website below http://www.adsenseguide.info/adsense-scams.php

I read it and I’m finding more stuff out, it’s got a lot of information that should not only help folks like me that are just finding their way, I think it will help the more prolific writer (/dam I need money) internet (gee does entrepreneur cover folks who make $90 a month, as I’m finding out) whatever you do, I wish everyone well with their endeavors. I hope somebody reads this and says to themselves - “wait! I am not the only person that is doing this and as tempting as this offer or that offer is, and even though it looks legit, is it really for me? Even if it looks copasetic from online sources or licensing boards, keep checking, we are not in an economy conducive to dropping a couple hundred on bad investing and chalking it up to ’lesson learned’ (is any economy conducive to throwing money in the toilet?) call acquaintances, ask your children’s friends, you may be very surprised to find that nobody wants to see someone else fail. With the exception of these scam artists who I like to think have a special place reserved in hell, so far down they pass telemarketers selling ’payment-protection-plans,’ wouldn’t it be nice if….. Maybe one of these ‘legit’ offers really is LEGIT, and sends an email that is not “no-reply” that says “okay, so you want to earn money on your computer, this is what you do…no immediate investment necessary, we have orders that need processing or phone calls and/or emails sent (here is a list of the numbers/addresses, we will pay you for the amount of legitimate efforts you make to sell our product/ state our case, should you decide you want to invest, then we can make it so we will withhold some of you’re pay, you will have a link to keep an eye on your earnings, and easy accessibility.” Oh, my friends I would jump at such a chance, to be able to work as I can? To say “hey I can work in 20 min. increments- isn’t this great? I bet even with my pain, I would be able to get more done that way than some 25yr old fitness junkie (which I was way back when)

At any rate I really hope that everybody is as lucky as I am having 2 really wonderful kids.