Coming from a Russian that dates black chicks...

While I don't have complete sympathy for Mike here, it can be hard to get back into a job like this if your body isn't conditioned for it.
If I had to stand on my feet all day I'd probably loose 15-20 pounds from my upper body, as even muscle can hurt my back over long periods of time. I was a server 5 years ago and at 6'2'' I had to weigh a lean 180 to not feel any back problems over the course of 8 hours. My back may be a little weak but my body is in good health.

Just like Loki, my stripper friends, and Mike in this case... You get off on digging into those who are not as robust. You bitch and nothing will be accomplished, but it's Mike's fault for bringing it up. :)

Granted I don't feel as much sympathy for Mike because I offered him a decent amount of space on a dedicated server with no hangups, he didn't act on it. He still continues to pursue freehosts, at least up until recently anyway.

I've worked double shifts as a welder and doing other jobs, and the time went by fairly quickly. Time goes by very slowly in a McDonalds and I would go nuts working at one for more than a few hours, back when I was 16.

edit: Still like your posts Squealer

I didn't read all the replys but I agree with TheSquealer.

Fucking quit complaining. You are being paid to do a job. Aww your back hurts quit. Don't wanna quit then do your job.
There are many that would jump to do your minimum wage job.

Breaks should be at discretion. You pull your weight you get a break, you bunk off and try to get by doing as little as possible work through their break.

I suspect you are the latter.

He could have phrased it a little softer, but I can understand the facepalm side of it. You repeatedly solicited advice & feedback on here, then repeatedly ignored the Webmaster 101 stuff people patiently tried to help you with - buy your own domains, don't use free-hosted blog networks if you want any sort of stable income, focus on quality over quantity, the list goes on. Just banging your head against a brick wall.

I mean, Squealer isn't the only one exasperated here: https://gfy.com/showthread.php?p=19981687#post19981687

Then you - as a grown man - for some reason announce to the forum you're taking a job flipping burgers at McDonalds, then start repeatedly complaining about said minimum wage job within a week or two..... what kind of reaction do you expect?

I say this because you seem like a decent honest guy, but take a look in the mirror and maybe consider therapy or something. Sheesh.

I'll say it again since there is confusion. I have nothing but respect for people who want to try. For people who understand they need to do what they have to. I have zero respect for whining, complaining and excuses while fishing for sympathy, rather than advice.

It's all about character.

Mike I don't like when people kick someone when they are down. I'm sorry you are going through all this.

But, I don't think you ever answered the question most people have asked throughout the years (and I silently did too).

Why did you never get cheap paid hosting?

Would have made a big difference.

I would bet you a hundie it would be less than 10 offers. Maybe 0, 1 or 2 at best. For more than few weeks old.
Established forum member like mike - maybe 1-3 offers ?
It would be interested to test, I think you are over positive in this regard. not many people are hiring....

You may be right. I should have just said "you didn't even try..."

;)

Im wondering why you would choose a fast food place to work at. Everyone knows they are one of the most frustrating jobs out there. I would have applied at walmart or hundreds of similar jobs before I would have entered the fast food industry.

What is so frustrating? I worked there when I was a teen. Had a great time. And I was not being lazy, usually I did twice as much as average fuck. Seriously, the "talent" there was low end... Slow as in slow motion. :1orglaugh
All grown up adults working there were complete losers..
I hear nowadays it is a bot better as due to unemployment even "normal" adults work there.

Well the monotony of it would have to be killer. Id think a job with a little more variety would make the time go by faster. Even if it is just stocking shelves. Standing in one spot flipping burgers for 8 hours would probably drive me insane, unless I was able to drink beer while doing it.

I have paid hosting. The ROI of time in adult is just not what it used to be.

Have you tried a low carb diet? It have worked for many people with IBS.

https://www.google.com/search?num=20...q=ibs+low+carb

Goddamn, IBS in not IBD. IBS is like a fucking tummy ache.

LOL, ok, but why do you want IBD then? It doesn't seem to be good for you.

Right. ....

And you've then cleverly reasoned as a next life move, that the best ROI on your time can be found working part time at McDonalds for minimum wage. Because that makes perfect sense.

Do they teach math where you are from or are you just irretrievably stupid?

You set your value as a grown adult in the workforce at $7.50 or so per hour and then came back to announce after a few shifts that you are actually worth far less in the work force than an inxperienced, uneducated, socially retarded high school student.

You don't seem to understand. Everything I am going through can be attributed to the fact that I have a chronic illness that is not being medically treated or dealt with by my family. I am not allowed to apply for medicaid or SSI because of very manipulative people in my family. It's hard for me to leave my living situation without abandoning said family members but they have cut out my social safety net from under me.

So I hope you understand I cannot handle any job that requires actual labor and fully expect to pass out in the coming months if I continue to have to work more than a 6 hour shift.

And most people on this board are not making minimum wage as adult webmasters.

I understand completely.

You lowered the bar for yourself income-wise to almost zero... then you've literally made zero effort to actually work in the business you are in and to search for work here. You've made zero effort to try to find work as a webmaster, as a writer etc etc etc in this very industry. You just insist you can't work at all... yet attempt to work for minimum wage at a job you've made abundantly clear again and again that you can't do.

You could very easily find a job writing text descriptions and submitting videos or writing content or doing basic webmaster work that would earn you the same as working at McDonalds for less than an outsourced Indian or Filipino, which you keep saying again and again that you are incapable of doing.

You are simultaneously telling the world "i can't earn more than 150.00 a week" and "i'm not worth more than 150.00 a week". So of course, your life is going to be paved with food stamps, homeless shelters and soup kitchens. In the meantime there are people on this forum that can't even get out of their wheelchairs that are running circles around you as you throw an online pity party for yourself.

:2 cents:

Speaking of mike looking for work on the forum. I am not sure if that was actually mike, but I remember him asking for some work (writing). Somebody wanted to give him work, but he kept ignoring that person, making excuses that he did not get his email or something like that. It went for few days until that person gave up.

Yeah, I remember that one too. It sounds like there are possibly mental health issues going on here - no shame in that, he wouldn't be the first GFYer who could seriously benefit from therapy....

If you wanted to get fixed, you'd make a lot of phone calls, do something, figure it out. Funny thing in my life is if I set something as an agenda, it gets done.
You've pretty much burned all credibility or sympathy reserves.

Back when I had my first apartment I had a guy, that did not graduate high school, same school same grade move in with me. He had no where to go because his girlfriend's parents had kicked him out of the house for being a bum, he couldn't hold a job... everyone was out to get him.

He got along with me alright because I didn't see him much from working so much. Not long after moving in, I got a phone call from the landlord telling me he was invading peoples' parties and "this weird guy."
I ended up talking to his mom and it sounded like he had a place to stay with her and his sister as well, but he couldn't do it for some reason.
He eventually got the boot. I drove him down to a Wal-Mart supercenter in Peoria, Illinois, handed him a $20 and said "good luck Jake."

Family can get in the way but it's time to look in the mirror.


Unfortunately, I'm 100% on your side.

I offered him 30GB (or some large amount with unlimited bandwidth) of free hosting on a dedicated server to help him out in response to his thread of I Need Someone To Tell Me It's Going To Be OK: http://m.gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1114394&page=1

He was sluggish about even getting back to me, then of course didn't take me up on it.

There's a retired superstar ex-pornographer that use to post here, I host his splash pages for people to contact him. :)

Money is an issue here, my best advice would be exercise (5 mile walks in the park) and other means. Exercise has a lot of benefits, so does getting sun.

deltav even mentioned injecting other peoples' feces and Mike said "that's only a temporary solution" which means to him, why even bother?

No one to blame but yourself Mike, you are a straight up loser.
Do something about it if you want, that is 100% up to you.

I'm thinking Mike, Squeals and a few others could get a group therapy discount.

Or maybe they could all get naked in a sweat lodge while a shaman spanks them with his medicine stick.

you think he is going to listen to anyone talking complete sense in this thread, when he has proven time and again that he won't listen to anyone, preferring instead to look at the why-nots, why it can't be done's, why this or that will fail, why xyz isn't worth the bother, and so on and so on and so on?

This guy is markham from a different angle, he already knows ALL the answers, and all these advice-seeking posts are 'pander to me' and 'listen to how bad I have it'. You hit the nail on the head mate with pity party, fuck wasting keyboard strokes on that, if you're bored send me an email with an idea or two you've had but never implemented rather than waste time on this guy.

And mike - sorry to sound harsh, but fucking hell, man up. DO something about your shit life that you want everyone to know about. But please don't make that something another whine. We all need help at some stage or other, fuck, I've been there more recently than I'd have liked, and there's no shame in that, but take the previous advice and/or help offered. It's not brain surgery.

Hey Mike, on a serious note I really think that you may have some mental health conditions that treatment could help with. Sign up for the new Obamacare and see if you can get in to speak with someone. It could change your life.

5 years ago, I mentioned in Mike's general direction during a quality versus quantity debate that a single quality paid for site would make just as much $$$ as numerous derelict free hosted blogs and splogs.

Still holds true to this day.

Just a few hours a week focused on one simple affiliate site and you can say goodbye to the Hamburglar.

I think that at the end of he day, I ran away from home when I was 16... I finished school on my own. I worked hard. I learners instantly that life is not "fair" and it's not "unfair" ... it's simply whatever you make it. I personally don't care about a single person begging for attention with his "woe is me" story. What bothers me most is all of the people that jump in an validate self destructive behaviors, horrible attitudes and general laziness as if there is nothing that can be done about it.

Life is what you make it.

You are always the sum total of your will, your determination, your drive and your ambition.

There is nothing wrong with being poor. I have respect for anyone who tries... or anyone that has found happiness in life. I've been through hell in my life and it just made me focus more. It made me try harder and it made me work harder. It took me many years of giving up everything, risking everything and spending 50k a month on absolutely nothing before I discovered what made me happy. For me, it was meeting my wife and falling in love with her. I felt that for the first time in my life, I was content. After that, I just sort of mellowed out. I suppose had we had kids, it would be different but after 10 years, we got a divorce. I did however always take that lesson with me. A new tricked out BMW M5 is still just a car. A penthouse is still just a place to sleep and eat. And I learned that if you are doing anything to impress others, you aren't happy.

But no matter where I am at financially, no matter how good I am doing or how bad I am doing... I always know it's 100% my doing and accept full responsibility for it. Things got bad for me a few years back and I was writing text for Sly. I wasn't bitching, complaining or whining, I was grateful even though it was very little money. In a short period of time, my income was well into the 5 figures a month again. You do what you have to, you swallow your pride, you practice humility and you do what it takes. You don't hitch and whine and complain and continually examined that being an abject fairer is never your fault... that is the very root of the problem to begin with and the very reason the cycle continues. Perplex congratulating him instead of telling him to man the fuck up simple reinforce the worst behaviors which is likely why he created this thread to begin with. If you want to help him - tell him to pull his head out of his ass.

Exactly right. Life is not fair, nor was it promised to be as such. The sooner that you learn this concept, the better off you will be.

Like the Squeeler, I had to overcome any number of life's obstacles. Parents gone when I was in my early teens. Grand parents gone by the time i was 20 leaving me with nothing but a younger sister. When you fuck up, there is no parental or family safety net to save you from the concrete.

I have had many ups and downs, but I never stopped trying. I got back up, dusted myself off, learned from my mistakes and got back to work. Every time I have, I made more money than the time before. I've never claimed to be perfect, but I can tell you from life experience that if you WANT to be some level of successful in life, it's possible. If you have to reinvent yourself, it's possible.

Of course this all requires some level of desire to make something of your self and a work ethic, which is where most fall short.

:2 cents:

Maybe you are reading his comments from a different elitist point of view in the ivory tower. When I read many, not all, of his comments he reads as someone who has accomplished something, is proud of it, and not afraid to work.

Is he harsh at times? Sure. So is Robbie. I think anyone who actually has WORKED for what they have, and accomplished something in life is going to be a bit harsh, annoyed, or bitter to those always looking for a handout or an easy way in life.

As was said already, "Life is what you make of it".

:2 cents:

Elitist ivory tower? I have no clue what you are talking about.

Based on years of reading posts from Mike, I genuinely think he has some issues that he could receive help with. How that makes me elitist is beyond me, but carry on.

True dat fine sire. Carry on.

:pimp

Agreed on all accounts top notch.
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It does not sound like you have enough grasp of Op's character:
1. You say he is harsh, he is not, in fact everybody is being harsh towards him and he stays calm and polite. Even surprisingly polite.
2. What did he achieve? It was difficult for him to buy a domain and build on it, even after his freehosts crashed he insisted on finding another freehost. Also he was looking for work and when someone offered him work he tried to avoid it at all costs, giving lame excuses.
So he is the opposite of "achieved something"

All in all it sounds like you are talking about some gfy user that is the opposite of mike.

I was talking about 'the Squeeler" being perceived as harsh on his replies, not about McSinner the O.P..

My apologies on the confusion fine sire. Hopefully that clears it up for ye.

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Apology accepted :thumbsup

Although you should understand why I assumed you were talking about Mike:
Sly criticized Mike and you quoted his post and criticized Sly for that criticizing. It definitely deemed like you were talking about Mike:
https://gfy.com/showpost.php?p=20050009&postcount=147
:)

Odd. There seem to be a lot of people hiring grunt workers on the various forums. I mean, there are posts about people hiring for all kinds of things all of the time. I do not know what they pay, as I just skim the subject titles on the classified sections.

Are you saying that the McAffiliates are not qualified for those jobs? Content description writers, grunt workers, webmasters, video uploading, and so forth? A lot of jobs that are eventually outsourced to Paki's and Chinese. I would think that he could make a few hundie doing some of this work, but I could be wrong I guess.

However, it seems like there is always someone looking for "a grunt".

No worries.

:pimp

Squealer and I snuggle on a regular basis, so I think this was all just confusion.

congrats on the new job.

can you read dates??? :helpme:helpme

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!