Originally Posted by Colmike7

I might as well try to help, success stories are fun..
Edit: For example, a few years I was broke as shit living in the worst apartment that you can think of on a big college campus ghetto. So one day I found 3 late 90s computer cases with random components in an alley that I was able to rig together to barely work (333MHz, 1.2Gb HD, XP that was hacked and loaded to a blank desktop and no explorer.exe that I could exploit to open IE and work for 45 minutes at a time until it restarted with no warning..) and connected wirelessly to a 0.7Kbps connection from a donut shop 2 blocks away. Then I cashed checks at local head shops until I got to where I am today (2 houses and bought my dads house to stop foreclosure and gave my brother 10k a few months ago).