Hello Everybody,
Richard here, I would just like to tell you one or two things about myself so that you can follow my journey to inspire you to make your own partial or full income from digital publishing.
So here goes
At eleven years of age I started work in a garden centre to earn some pocket money.
The jobs there were varied from laying turf, to digging out ponds, cleaning ponds, cleaning toilets, cleaning floors, cleaning out fish sales tanks…cleaning anything and everything really. I also sold plants, fish, garden implements.
Great days, how I miss them.
At eighteen I went to university to study Zoology, and at 21 having achieved my degree, I went back to the garden centre in a managerial role, where I was involved in designing and building water recycling systems for fish, including the exotic…and expensive…Japanese Nishiki Koi Carp.
I progressed from cleaning out ponds to cleaning out small lakes, and designing filter systems and water quality systems for these.
At 30 years of age it was time to move on and I went to London to study to become an osteopath, and qualified four years later. In the holiday periods I went to work for a builder, where I was involved in digging footings, drains, laying concrete, hod carrying, and other manual deeds.
This was perfect as after studying for most of the year, it was easy to shall we say, get out of shape. (Well actually I was in shape, just not the right one!)
A bit of manual work soon sorted that out, and at the end of summer I would return to college as lean as a whippet.
I left college with a certain amount of debt and back to square one as I had sold my house to part fund my course.
Consequently I worked for other osteopaths as an assistant and also set up my own practice. After several years I bought an old building to operate my practice from. This turned out to be a bit of a money pit, as I am sure I could have demolished it and rebuilt it several times over, due to the amount I spent on repairs.
Whilst earning an income, I put some money aside into a private pension. What a joke that turned out to be. After 30 years it was worth exactly what I had put into it. I would have been better putting it into a bank.
As it was the financial advisor, and the pension firm did very well out of it….thank you very much, but I alas didn’t.
Due to the continuous manual therapy, my fingers and hands started aching…..a lot, and I had to cut back on the number of treatments I carried out each week.
As a consequence I started to eat through any savings I had, and decided to try and earn an income online.
And after many false starts, ….expensive ones I should add,… I finally managed to achieve this, and started this web site so that anybody wanting to make a partial or primary income online could do so, WITHOUT the trials, tribulations and expense that I endured.
Welcome.