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smit · 08-06-2004, 09:08 AM

i've never been in "rags" and not yet in "riches" by any means, but i've made enough to buy a new car, computer, random other shit, saved up some, and hopefully pay off college by the time i graduate... which is next may. if i never got into this, i would still be driving my ford tempo, working a minimum wage college job, and stressing about making rent month to month... but now, i do pretty well for my situation.... however, after graduation... i dont know what im gunna do!! i guess turn it up a notch til then.

Brad Mitchell · 08-06-2004, 09:10 AM

I grew up in a wealthy family. When I left home, I was poor because I never got any handouts. Worked for someone else for 7 years then for myself for the last 5 and now I'm 28 and successful beyond my expectations for this age.

Brad

johndoebob · 08-06-2004, 09:42 AM

No rags to riches here because I don't like greed and only with greed it's possible to build up something really big.I started with my first business ideas when I was 12 or 13 because I couldn't afford things I wanted, I've always worked for myself never got into any dependance.

My thing is to work as less as possible (of course you have to work hard in the beginning) but make a good living of it.I don't really need 10k+ a month and I wouldn't want to work more if I wouldn't have to.More money doesn't make me any happier so I don't feel the constant need to grow business bigger and bigger.I may be the only one who thinks like that here

Doctor Dre · 08-06-2004, 09:54 AM

I started with nothing and I have what I need ... I aiin't rich but still

Props to all the porno buyers

montel · 08-06-2004, 10:10 AM

cant say. but i agree with that.

TheJimmy · 08-06-2004, 10:13 AM

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Originally posted by dennisthemenace
I "know of" a true rags to riches to rags story involving the IRS, cancer and death...

But won't be posting it here....

definitely needs it's own thread...

I know of a riches to rags story involving the IRS that's happening right now....very disturbing shit...

Shap · 08-06-2004, 10:40 AM

Johndoebob you are way off on this. It isn't only greed that can bring someone riches. There is a little something called hard work that pays off pretty damn well. Everything we do is about being 100% honest with everyone we deal with and we know companies than are much bigger than us and don't have an ounce of greed in their blood.

Shap · 08-06-2004, 10:44 AM

Hi TheJimmy. We've come across alot of Rich Lifestyles going back to Rags thanks to the IRS. I wouldn't call those people Riches to Rags stories because in reality they never had the riches. All they had was expensive material items and no savings, no investments and no growth of their financial portfolio. I think that is one of the biggest problems people have. They live big, spend fast and save nothing.

TheJimmy · 08-06-2004, 10:47 AM

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Originally posted by shap
Hi TheJimmy. We've come across alot of Rich Lifestyles going back to Rags thanks to the IRS. I wouldn't call those people Riches to Rags stories because in reality they never had the riches. All they had was expensive material items and no savings, no investments and no growth of their financial portfolio. I think that is one of the biggest problems people have. They live big, spend fast and save nothing.

for the most part I would agree, minus the few stories that involve large, unexpected medical expenses...but as you said, there was never 'true' wealth if it was lost easily...

johndoebob · 08-06-2004, 10:47 AM

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Johndoebob you are way off on this. It isn't only greed that can bring someone riches. There is a little something called hard work that pays off pretty damn well. Everything we do is about being 100% honest with everyone we deal with and we know companies than are much bigger than us and don't have an ounce of greed in their blood.

If you always want more and can't get enough it's greed in my opinion.I don't mean the "getting rich by fucking over other people" greed.

They work all day just for money that they don't really need or could spent, that isn't my thing, I know when I have enough and try to lower my working hours as much as possible.I don't need millions of dollars to enjoy life.

Shap · 08-06-2004, 10:51 AM

I agree Jimmy. I think medical expense stories are really shit luck

Johndoe i have to disagree. If you have a solid product that you built up maintaining it will earn you easy money without having to sweat much. Just look at ATK and Karups. Just by updating their site they make huge money.

scoreman · 08-06-2004, 10:52 AM

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Originally posted by johndoebob
No rags to riches here because I don't like greed and only with greed it's possible to build up something really big.I started with my first business ideas when I was 12 or 13 because I couldn't afford things I wanted, I've always worked for myself never got into any dependance.

My thing is to work as less as possible (of course you have to work hard in the beginning) but make a good living of it.I don't really need 10k+ a month and I wouldn't want to work more if I wouldn't have to.More money doesn't make me any happier so I don't feel the constant need to grow business bigger and bigger.I may be the only one who thinks like that here

You may be less materialistic than others here but don't confuse ambition with greed, they are light years apart.

johndoebob · 08-06-2004, 10:56 AM

scoreman check my definition of greed two posts above.

TheJimmy · 08-06-2004, 10:59 AM

Joe...would have to agree with Shap's disagreement ...

what a lot of people, including myself, lack is follow through...

I'm sure some can relate in having too many projects started and not enough completed...

pick a good recurring business model, paysite, hosting, rental feeds, content plugins, etc and run with it...

Scoreman also made a great distinction, ambition and greed ARE different things....cousins for sure, but not the same...

johndoebob · 08-06-2004, 11:00 AM

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If you have a solid product that you built up maintaining it will earn you easy money without having to sweat much. Just look at ATK and Karups. Just by updating their site they make huge money.

If they don't feel the need for more and just maintain and maybe even grow while maintaining, than they don't fit into my definition of greed above.

dennisthemenace · 08-06-2004, 11:05 AM

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Originally posted by TheJimmy
definitely needs it's own thread...

I know of a riches to rags story involving the IRS that's happening right now....very disturbing shit...

how many years along is it now?

didn't see any positive results in mine until about the 4.5 year mark.

OrgasmCa$hMarina · 08-06-2004, 11:45 AM

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Originally posted by mdcq
Im a damn cinderella story in the making...just waiting on richard gere in the limo.....any day now.....

wdsguy · 08-10-2004, 03:31 PM

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Originally posted by swami
I went from a bum who had a simple job and spent all my money on gambling at the races and who had never touched a computer in my life to having made over $500,000 US clear profit in 18 months from spamming search engines.
I have never had a bet since and I still pinch myself that it is that easy.

GOt any advice for a SEO newb?

pxxx · 08-10-2004, 03:33 PM

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Originally posted by Jeff aka NIGHTfall
...90% of GFY still lives with their parents

I totally agree with you on that one. lmao

HarlotCash Dyker · 08-10-2004, 03:54 PM

Here is a true rags to riches story:

A bunch Of guys asked me to help them build there very first website - I did more than that, I actually photographed their very first models and paid for their first domains-
The guys had no cash and I even gave them a car on hp and paid for the shoots - (Some of the guys could afford to pay their share, others (I Include their current ceo) could not.

This, Web Girl, is now the company that employes you!

TheMob · 08-10-2004, 04:02 PM

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Originally posted by Varius
Well I didn't start in rags, but was pretty close....so here's the brief version of my climb through various jobs....

age 14 - summer warehouse work
age 16 - summer warehouse work and managing comic book store

This gave me basically enough money to buy lunch at school sometimes, buy comics and videogames, take girls out, etc...nothing more.

age 17 - dropped out of computer science in cegep (quebec's college system wannbe) because I realized it was shit. Started data entry job a friend got me in an ecommerce company.

Moved up to programmer after a few months...then got laid off with half the company when the dot com crash hit.

Started my first work in the realm of porn here, as a designer who got laid off with me started up a small office to run his 10 or so porn sites. Collected unemployment as well as $400/week cash from him, just managing people doing submissions and a designer. Got so hbored started to learn PHP while at work.

Blew all this money partying every single night

age 18 - learnt enough PHP to get hired by IwantU as a junior programmer. Have touched almost every net career possible there, including at one time or another:

junior programmer, senior programmer, sales rep, makerting, systems administrator, project manager, CTO and finally Webmaster.

I've now moved to Costa Rica, have 0 debt in the world, no creditcards, cash to spare and a sweet guarenteed bonus in one more year where my contract is up that I plan to open a bar/venue with.

To top it all off, yesterday I got a 20% raise

Where in Costa Rica are you? Nice story, by the way!

skillfull · 08-10-2004, 05:14 PM

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Originally posted by HarlotCash Dyker
Here is a true rags to riches story:

A bunch Of guys asked me to help them build there very first website - I did more than that, I actually photographed their very first models and paid for their first domains-
The guys had no cash and I even gave them a car on hp and paid for the shoots - (Some of the guys could afford to pay their share, others (I Include their current ceo) could not.

This, Web Girl, is now the company that employes you!

cool sotry

slavdogg · 08-10-2004, 06:05 PM

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Originally posted by webgurl
c'mon i'm sure there must be a few of you in here who were not doing to well starting out and eventually build a nice fortunate empire in this business ?

I once had a silver spoon, but am now holding a burning bag of poop.

Is that a good story?

qwe · 08-10-2004, 06:22 PM

if only I started in 1996 or so, o mannnnnnnn........

08-06-2004, 09:08 AM	#51
smit Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 387	i've never been in "rags" and not yet in "riches" by any means, but i've made enough to buy a new car, computer, random other shit, saved up some, and hopefully pay off college by the time i graduate... which is next may. if i never got into this, i would still be driving my ford tempo, working a minimum wage college job, and stressing about making rent month to month... but now, i do pretty well for my situation.... however, after graduation... i dont know what im gunna do!! i guess turn it up a notch til then. __________________ SIG TOO BIG! Maximum 120x60 button and no more than 3 text lines of DEFAULT SIZE and COLOR. Unless your sig is for a GFY top banner sponsor, then you may use a 624x80 instead of a 120x60.

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Brad Mitchell Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Southfield, MI Posts: 9,812	I grew up in a wealthy family. When I left home, I was poor because I never got any handouts. Worked for someone else for 7 years then for myself for the last 5 and now I'm 28 and successful beyond my expectations for this age. Brad __________________ President at MojoHost \| brad at mojohost dot com \| Skype MojoHostBrad 71 industry awards for hosting and professional excellence since 1999

08-06-2004, 09:42 AM	#53
johndoebob Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,405	No rags to riches here because I don't like greed and only with greed it's possible to build up something really big.I started with my first business ideas when I was 12 or 13 because I couldn't afford things I wanted, I've always worked for myself never got into any dependance. My thing is to work as less as possible (of course you have to work hard in the beginning) but make a good living of it.I don't really need 10k+ a month and I wouldn't want to work more if I wouldn't have to.More money doesn't make me any happier so I don't feel the constant need to grow business bigger and bigger.I may be the only one who thinks like that here __________________

08-06-2004, 10:10 AM	#55
montel Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: See sig! Posts: 2,606	cant say. but i agree with that. __________________ Barefootsies

08-06-2004, 10:56 AM	#63
johndoebob Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,405	scoreman check my definition of greed two posts above. __________________

08-06-2004, 10:40 AM	#57
Shap Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 8,313	Johndoebob you are way off on this. It isn't only greed that can bring someone riches. There is a little something called hard work that pays off pretty damn well. Everything we do is about being 100% honest with everyone we deal with and we know companies than are much bigger than us and don't have an ounce of greed in their blood.

08-06-2004, 10:44 AM	#58
Shap Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 8,313	Hi TheJimmy. We've come across alot of Rich Lifestyles going back to Rags thanks to the IRS. I wouldn't call those people Riches to Rags stories because in reality they never had the riches. All they had was expensive material items and no savings, no investments and no growth of their financial portfolio. I think that is one of the biggest problems people have. They live big, spend fast and save nothing.

08-06-2004, 10:51 AM	#61
Shap Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 8,313	I agree Jimmy. I think medical expense stories are really shit luck Johndoe i have to disagree. If you have a solid product that you built up maintaining it will earn you easy money without having to sweat much. Just look at ATK and Karups. Just by updating their site they make huge money.

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TheJimmy ICQ- five seven 0 2 5 5 0 Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 10,747	Joe...would have to agree with Shap's disagreement ... what a lot of people, including myself, lack is follow through... I'm sure some can relate in having too many projects started and not enough completed... pick a good recurring business model, paysite, hosting, rental feeds, content plugins, etc and run with it... Scoreman also made a great distinction, ambition and greed ARE different things....cousins for sure, but not the same... __________________ Investor with 5m - 15m USD to invest. Do you have a site or network of sites earning 50k - 200k a month income? Email your contact and preliminary data to: domain.cashventures (at) gmail.com....Please...no tire kickers...serious offers and inquiries only.

08-10-2004, 03:54 PM	#70
HarlotCash Dyker Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: At a whorehouse near you Posts: 1,828	Here is a true rags to riches story: A bunch Of guys asked me to help them build there very first website - I did more than that, I actually photographed their very first models and paid for their first domains- The guys had no cash and I even gave them a car on hp and paid for the shoots - (Some of the guys could afford to pay their share, others (I Include their current ceo) could not. This, Web Girl, is now the company that employes you! __________________ !!!Harlot Cash<<>>Harlot Cash<<>>Harlot Cash<<>>Harlot Cash!!!

08-10-2004, 06:22 PM	#74
qwe Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,109	if only I started in 1996 or so, o mannnnnnnn........