Azelma wrote:
Let me explain how the internet works. There's things called "Guest Posts" where you write featured articles for other blogs and include links to specific sites. Hence why I said "freelance blogging". Yes there's money in it - I know this because my company hires freelance bloggers. You are wrong and trying to shoot down an industry you know nothing about.
First off, what you're describing is totally unproductive. It's shilling and writing total bullshit about products that are pure hype.
Then again your entire character is defined by the belief that "people say it so it must be true". Curiously you don't recognize the connection between "what people say" and gigs like this.
Question: Where do you find them? How much do you pay them? Do you hire them 1:1 or do you subcontract?
Azelma wrote:
Yeah you're just plain wrong here. True - CPC is not nearly as lucrative as it once was, and the competition is way higher, but I still have a site making me a good amount of change each month based solely on AdSense revenue. This is fact.
Show me. Link to your site. How much does it earn? What's the monetization scheme?
Azelma wrote:
So just because Supply > Demand that means it's impossible to get work? I guess because something is challenging it makes it not an option? lol.
It's not a question of "challenge" any more than winning the lotto is a "challenge". It's that the number of winners is necessarily much smaller than the number of losers, even if the losers have the qualities necessary to succeed.
Azelma wrote:
If we got the person through one of the many certified nanny networks there are, yes. Also, there's this thing called an "interview" and a "background check." I have a friend who moved to Chicago from Texas and was able to get this type of nanny job within a few months...no the family did not know her previously.
Certified based on what?
An interview/background check doesn't tell you shit. It's not going to tell you that someone isn't going to take stuff or mistreat your kid.
Azelma wrote:
Wowwww really guys? What exactly is "false humor"? I really cant believe you and Mayo flipped out about that. I'm never making any attempt at off-colour humor ever again because obviously you guys think I'm a racist and will just use it to either 1.) Disclaim whatever statements I've made as the ramblings of an ignorant racist or 2) In Mayo's case, by pass everything else that was written entirely.
It's a perfectly valid point. You often say things like this as if you're joking but there's never any real punch line. It's not offensive, it's just...not funny. The only constant of your digs at colored people is your own suppressed attitudes.
Azelma wrote:
Anyway, I should say that this is how my cousin got work (and no, he isn't Mexican
). He happened to live across the street from a woman who owns a landscaping business. He bumped into her one day walking the dog and had a conversation - asked if she had any openings and voila!
So your friend got lucky. Not everyone is so fortunate. Not everyone is in the right place at the right time...or are in proximity to people with money.
Aestu wrote:
I think I would be more useful in a desk job in the army...that's just me acknowledging my shortcomings...I'm not incredibly athletic, and I'm not very experienced with guns....I think I'd be more of a liability in the field than not. However, if the army were to put me on the front lines if I enlisted...I would certainly fulfill my obligation.
So you say. Yet you first make excuses about not having the very things you condemn others for making excuses about...experience and relative ability.
Funny how the "oh, but..." comes on when the shoe moves to the other foot.
Azelma wrote:
I have done several things on the list, and I have worked fast food.
Fast food? Who cares? Manning a register in your teens is not comparable to expecting people to actually get through life on that, or ny of the other far-fetched or impractical proposals you make.
Which of those proposals have you actually done?
Azelma wrote:
I agree with your statement about Weed though. It is certainly a risk and one that could bite me in the ass. However, I don't deal, or even purchase in large quantities. The most I could ever be caught with would not be worth it in jail time. Also, sad as it is, because I am white and living in an affluent neighborhood, cops are much less likely to arrest me for such a thing.
You are correct that I would be boned if I needed to get a job that required a hair sample. However, I have enough savings stashed up that I could hold off finding a job for about a month while my system cleared out, and I'd stop any smoking immediately. For the record, I did this in college when I had an internship. As soon as I knew I was going to be drug tested, I stopped all weed consumption and focused on clearing out my system. It was a piss test and I passed.
You didn't reply to what I said.
No conviction is necessary. You don't need to be dealing. An arrest for possession is enough to destroy your career. If an employer finds out you even had an arrest for possession (and they can, whether it's legal or not) no one will hire you versus anyone who doesn't have a history.
You talk about discipline and life choices that people who aren't you should make yet you're cavalier with your own life.
Like I said, somehow I don't think you'd be content to blame yourself and "die in a corner" if you got fired and no one would hire you because you failed a drug test or got arrested for possession.
Azelma wrote:
Battletard wrote:
With that said, Azelma was not saying you have to do any one of the things on the list, merely pointing out that there are a great deal of ways to make money.
This.
People said this shit in Dickens' time too.
"Any of the TENS OF MILLIONS who aren't as well-off as me are just lazy. So clearly, me > them, despite the fact I have no remarkable traits."
Curiously, then as now, the people saying that get by on paychecks from established enterprises and aren't the type to actually do the things they say are so easy.
