I’ve been feeling low for a couple of days now and I feel now is the time for me to lay my cards on the table.
The biggest contributing factor is me not earning money again. It’s not a case of not having a job, I see jobs as a means to an end, as a stepping stone for me to get where I want to be and that’s earning enough money so I can just move and then earn a living working from home, actually doing stuff that I enjoy doing.
I’m not after a career, I’m too old for that now, I’m looking at different income streams for me to get what I want. If it means jumping from job to job in the meantime, then I’ll continue to do that.
I do still have goals though and the main one is to have enough income for me to work for myself, doing what? Anything that makes me feel happy.
When I no longer feel happy doing something, then I’ll pack it in, if it is a business I’ll sell it to someone else who has the passion. Then I’ll move on to something else.
So any employers out there, don’t think you’re going to get me chained to a desk in the long term. Sure I’m going for permanent jobs, but my idea of a permanent job is 6 months to 2 years. If you want to keep me there longer, then you’ll have to come up with something really interesting. Otherwise I’m on to the next thing that takes my interest.
Don’t try and fob me off with £6.00 to £7.00 p/h jobs especially if I live over 15 miles away, that’ll just about get money in the tank and that’s about it.
I’m no longer going to compromise myself by getting a job that is losing me money to satisfy some false sense of self esteem because I’m leaving the house everyday, nor am I going to do it to satisfy the job centre, sure I’ll look for jobs, but don’t come moaning if I’m not getting any interviews or job offers. I’m not getting the begging bowl out anymore, I’m not going to pimp myself out to the highest bidder.
You want me, you come and get me, I’m here, I’m available. To help you these are my current interests, whether I have the money to pursue these interests or not, that doesn’t matter because I will be in the position one day to fulfill my interests, then I’ll delve into a little background of myself and see if you still have the balls to work with me.
My Current Interests
- Property – I have been interested in property for several years, never had the money to fulfill this aim of mine, whether it be being a landlord or setting up a letting agency, buy and selling property, I’m keen.
- The Stock Market/Forex Trading - Another interest of mine, not actually dabbled, again due to lack of money. I have attended a couple of Knowledge To Action seminars (as alluded to in previous posts), but the cost at the moment is really prohibitive from £1,997 to £13,000 (yes 13k) + VAT. Yes I plan to do these one day. But of course because of the costs would mean this is a few years away.
- Social Media - I love it, cannot get enough of it. Do I wish I could go out and earn money talking about it? Sure I do, but I don’t feel I have enough knowledge and I’m a lousy speaker in front of strangers. I’m like a rabbit in headlights. But I’m sure I’ll get over that given the time.
Have I piqued your interest in me? Now this is where you need the balls to work with me, I’m not for the feint hearted.
Personal Background
No I’m not going to do a “Chunk” from the Goonies and regail you with everything from when I was born, it wouldn’t make a very interesting story. So I’m going to skip straight to 2007.
One day in particular which was a very dark day for me 4th October 2007, the day I filed for personal bankruptcy. What made it even more gut wrenching was my mother paid for the court fees, I wouldn’t have felt as bad if I could have afforded to pay the costs myself.
At that time even though I didn’t outwardly show it, I felt really bad just staring into space waiting for the clerk to come back to me to tell me my bankruptcy had been approved by the judge.
After we left the court my mum, her fiance and me went our seperate ways, what made it worse was that my mum felt let down that years of burying my head in the sand had come to this.
My mum refused to speak to me for months, which was completely understandable.
A huge weight came off my shoulders for a while, as I knew the OR (official Receiver) would be dealing with my creditors.
What my mother and other people didn’t know at the time was that I had literally given up, I’d stopped tidying my flat a couple of years before, only hurriedly tidying it when mum came round to see what was happening. My flat basically looked like a bomb had gone off in it. I won’t go into much detail but it would have made an interesting episode of “How Clean is Your House”.
I’d stopped paying the service charges, ended up with a pre-payment electric meter because I couldn’t pay off the large electricity bill in their time scale.
After that point things still didn’t get any better, flat still wasn’t being tidied, service charges still not being paid, problems with the pre payment meter.
Again things came to a head in February 2009, my mum was fed up of the state of flat, then she was landed with a £1,000+ service charge bill, that I had been promising to pay for over a year, she decided she wanted me out of the flat and she was going to sell it.
I had squandered a golden opportunity, by now I could have paid my mum off completely for the flat and I would have had a nice place to live or to rent out and I would have been well on my way.
So in February 2009 I ended up in shared accommodation where I have been to this day.
There have been some short periods of employment, which have all ended in one way or another.
So I’m once more sitting here looking for ways to make money. Thankfully my bills at the current time are low, I only have to worry about the rent and feeding myself.
Rounding Up
So now that I’ve laid my cards on the table, do you still want to work with me?
As I said I won’t work for pennies, I still need to pay the rent, feed myself, put fuel in the tank of my car and put money aside to fulfill my interests posted above.
It may cost you in the short term, but you get me back on my feet and I promise the rewards afterwards will be great. I never forget the people who help me out.
If you’re interested then e-mail me:
richard.arblaster @ gmail.com
Or call me: 07562 979308
Please no time wasters, no offers of get rich quick schemes that I have to buy in to, I know that don’t exist.