Hi folks, it’s that time again. Yep, another donation request. I do not think I am abusing this feature. Most for-pay websites that run on this model hit you up for donations on just about every article. I don’t do that at all.
Furthermore, this is not begging. I work very hard on this site. I wrote 5,000 words just yesterday. That would be 10 pages in a book. A lot of times I work on and off all day on this site. And I definitely work seven days a week on it. So I put in quite a few hours of hard work. The fund drive simply asks you to pay my salary for my writing. It’s like buying a subscription to a newspaper or magazine. It’s a way of supporting my writing and this site as a whole. And if there are some features you love such as the forums, you might want to donate just to keep them running. So if you like my writing or my forums, you might want to donate to keep them going. If you hate my writing and/or my forums, well then, don’t donate to keep them going. That’s your right, and I don’t blame you for not paying. Why pay for something you hate?
Once again, this isn’t begging or handouts. I am requesting that you pay part of my wage or salary for this hard work I am doing here. It’s only begging or handouts if you ask for money without working. I am simply a worker who is requesting to be paid for my labor, just like any other worker.
The forum model worked very good for a few months. Quite a bit of money came in. I figure at least 200 people paid to become members of the forum. However, forum membership purchases have slacked off dramatically, in fact, they have collapsed.
I have several income streams. I have at least three different income streams off this site alone now that I am finally selling advertisements. I suppose selling ads is begging for handouts too, right? I also have three different income streams outside of this site, only one of which is active now. The other two are dormant. So as you can see, I have six different ways of making money via work or labor. So that’s like six different jobs in a way. Problem is that they have all collapsed to a very low level lately.
I did pretty well for a few months there with the forum. Two months I made $3,000/month. I was quite proud of myself as I have never made $3,000/month in my entire life. Actually I probably have 20-30 years ago if you account for inflation. I was making decent money as a schoolteacher and a paralegal for a while. For about a year, I was working as a schoolteacher and a paralegal. I would teach school all day and then I would go into the paralegal job after everyone got home and work until late. As you can see, I am quite a bum and derelict who refuses to work!
I took a vacation recently to the Bay Area to meet a couple of people and have some fun. The trip was supposed to cost $500, but instead it cost $1,750 as my car broke down over there and had to spend extra nights in the hotel and then had to eventually spend $850 to fix the car. So the $1,750 expenses basically was all of savings that I had saved up from the months when the money was good.
I am now back in the whole like I always am. I am at budget, but I still have $185 in bills I can’t pay, so that makes me $185 below budget actually. And then I will need some more work on the car. That doesn’t count dating or anything fun, but I guess I have no right to date or have fun since I am evil as I exploit Abby and Libby’s deaths for money like a scumbag.
This is pretty funny. My haters have been bashing me forever for having a low income and driving an old car. I guess they’re all Republicans because only a Republican would do that. So I have no right to be poor I guess. Then as soon as I start making some money, all the haters start screaming that I am making money through an “unacceptable job,” and I need to stop working and give all my money to the IRS. Yes, they are actually reporting me to the IRS to try to get my job taken away from me.
So I have no right to be poor, and I need to get off my ass and get a job. Then I start working, and I guess I have no right to work either, as they try to get my job taken away from me and get me busted by the government. That’s in addition to these idiots continuing to report me to LE as a “possibly dangerous person.” I am sure LE is dying to arrest me for my thought crimes.
Oh and they got furious when I spent forum money on fixing my car. They screamed and tried to bust me to the IRS. I guess I have no right to fix my car! That means I have no right to have a car. Everyone else has a right to a car, but I don’t, apparently because I am evil. So they trash me for driving an old car with problems, as I have no right to have an old car. Then I try to fix it and they scream and try to bust me. as I have no right to fix my old car when it breaks down.
If I have a problem, I get bashed to Hell, and then I am not allowed to try to fix the problem. Attempts at fixing the problem get me busted to the government.
You getting the plot now?
I can’t win.
Everything I do is wrong.
I literally cannot win with these people. Everything I do is automatically wrong, and there’s no way for me to do anything right because any behavioral change I make is automatically wrong too.
