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Originally posted by bunky
in all walks of life you must have money to make money correct? Example: I have 1,000 to my name, No offline Job, and i have about 800 Dollars in bills due before the end of the month. Plus Gas, food and cigarette money. Can i afford to go out on a limb risking what little i have to possible lose my ass?
NO. I'll work for Joe Blowe making gallerys and doing bitch workin so i can put so cash in the bank to become a CEO of a multi-million dollar corporation (Lensman).
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Not true, unless you're too poor to buy a yellow pad and a pencil. It so happens that good websites don't spring to life ex nihilo anymore, but what kind of investment does it take to write? I mean, if you are talking literally penniless, yes, you are up shit creek without a paddle fucked up the ass. However, a lot can be done on a yellow pad, borrowing time on a friend's computer (don't have any friends? time to find out why).
Opportunities are out there for those who don't give themselves excuses. Excuses like "it takes money to make money." That's true in some instances, but not all. So, you don't start with one of those instances.
Very few people are so destitute that they can't afford a small investment, and some starts require only a small investment and the ability to sell yourself.
Four years ago I lived in a one-room efficiency apartment. I scrounged and borrowed until I had a computer. The apartment was so small that I slept on the floor because I had to choose between a bed and a desk. It was so small that I had to sleep on the diagonal, because there wasn't enough room to straighten out my legs otherwise.
I went out to Nevada to work for X-Pics, which fired me after about 6 weeks (a distinction I wear with honor, given their subsequent history). So, I was stuck in Lake Tahoe. I got serious about my membership site and was finally able to rent a truck to get my shit back to Portland, OR. That's when I looked at all the content I'd created for my pay site and decided it was stupid to let it lay around doing nothing, which is how my content business got started.
I've reached the point now where I support one of my friends 100% and contribute substantially to the income of another one.
And I didn't do it by sitting around complaining that nobody would hire me.