whine of astonsihment

I wish you all the best in your endeavors Earthling, and I certainly don't want to discourage you in any way - but you will probably need to 'pay your dues' with a few consistent years of successful self-employment using 'your method' before you are likely to find many investors willing to purchase real estate in Wyoming for your business proposal - usually about five years of proving yourself as a rule of thumb - but with God, all things are possible - so definitely go for it friend!

earthling155

Yeah, I'm really building my business online. The school idea was just a story about a beautiful old school building that would be fun to restore and use as something useful.

I'm actually developing my business as a work at home resource center. So working at home is the best way for me to develop my business.

I was homeless during 2009 when I produced my first, free practice website at earthling09
I've kept my first free practice blog going at earthling
And I've recently started developing my first commercial website at Holistic Home Office

I hope I don't get in any trouble for posting these links. I'm just very interested in getting people to read some of my stories and sharing feedback about ways and means to improve both the substance and the style of my writing. I've always intended my websites to be a conversation, as well as an online resource center.

I've also been writing on this forum and I've recently started another blog on open.salon.com. So, now that I'm laid off from driving the truck for the winter. I want to get my writing career started. I hope I can earn enough income from my websites and my writing that I won't have to go back to work driving truck this spring.

I have a first class education and no credentials, so I'm in a kind of twilight zone, where any job I get is usually boring and unfulfilling. The website idea will allow me to be a professional writer without depending on any doctor, lawyer or teacher to tell me I can be a writer, or how, when and what I can write. I can publish my own stories. Now all I have to do is attract attention and write interesting, educational and entertaining stories.

I'll be adding Content 2.0 capabilities to holistic-home-office.com soon, so the website can evolve into a conversation of people sharing ideas and resources for developing individual and family sized home office based free enterprises.

earthling155

holistic-home-office.com is coming along fairly well. Its up to about 45 pages so far. They're kind of scratchy, not smooth flowing like I want them to be. And my ideas are fairly unusual.

I like both the style and the content of my stories. I'll improve with practice. I think that reading a few of the stories on the website will help anyone of any class, race or nation to be more successful in our capitalist democracy.

cire perdue

Ditto, ditto. 2 Thoughts:

"Greed hath made captive all mankind." Baha'u'llah, Fire Tablet

Those who are at a survival level are too busy surviving to consider a new religion. Those that have privilege are the firsts to consider new religion. (That does not mean wealth, but perhaps a protected position e.g. a slave in the imperial household etc., Phobe Hearst (she left the Faith) plus her chauffeur, Robert Turner. Mostly, the first American Baha'is had money.) Paraphrased from THE RISE OF CHRISITIANITY by Rodney Stark, one of the few non Baha'i books once carried by the Baha'i Publishing Trust.....

I want whatever it is that earthling155 is having..... okay, okay it's from "When Harry Met Sally." Some decadence is funny, really. Isn't it?

earthling155

Healing poverty, including my own extreme poverty and homelessness is an honorable enterprise. My first, free practice website at earthling09 was created while I was completely homeless and wandering the streets and getting chased from one homeless shelter to another. I created the website on computers and the library.

I believe that private free enterprise is the best solution for poverty. Personal responsibility and self determination are essential attributes of human nature. Teaching people how to fish, is better than giving them a fish. Thats what I'm doing, to the best of my ability.