Just like you, when I first thought about freedom, I pictured the usual stuff: money, expensive cars, big houses, get-away vacations. For me, freedom looks like: • Not having to worry about being fired or laid off. • Not having to fight daily traffic. • Doing whatever I want and when. • Not having to look at menu prices when going out to eat. • Taking the time to learn what I'm interested in. • The ability to chose who to work with. • Control over my time and less stress. I actually moved closer to freedom when I "took the plunge" back in May 2009 after being laid off for the 3rd time in 2 years and finding no one willing to pay me more than what I was drawing for unemployment. It's been a roller coaster ride but I found out a LOT about myself, especially when you ""burn your bridges".

@Ted Mauro yes it is....but the BIGGEST bummer was not expecting it. I got too complacent with my work. My background skills were with computer maintenance (back when they were mini mainframes taking up a portion of a room) and electronic tech (days of troubleshooting and replacing component level stuff like transistors, resistors, capacitors, etc.). I adjusted over from mini mainframes to Personal Computers (days when you could upgrade your PC CPU, memory, video board, hard drive). Now it's cheaper and more effective to buy a new one! As far as electronics, components got combined together in "chips" using robotics, so impossibe to replace individual components by soldering, which was a SKILL! Plus many components in computers and electronic equipment now have proprietary information built in to force you to purchase from the manufacturer (again cheaper way to go). This all forced labor prices to decline. I then took a job with a company assembling Kenworth and Peterbuilt truck parts thinking THAT was a more stable industry. WRONG! Even that industry got affected when DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid) got introduced to meet stricter emmission standards. It was a new concept, raised the cost of new trucks and many trucking owners/companies hung onto their older trucks...therefore creating less need for assembling new trucks. The branch I was working for eventually started laying off. Moral of this story....DON'T become complacent with your present JOB! Keep a pulse of what's happening around you. HINT: research on how AI will affect your JOB, how you can be replaced. Yes, I found a niche...Affiliate Marketing. So many options to earn online.

Thanks for your time @Ted Mauro to be real and share your experrience. I've been missing for awhile and decided to check out the call, mainly too see what the Simple Cash Society was about. I know we had a few post replies and knew you were knowledgeable and experienced....but I have a LOT more respect for you now!

@James Renouf @David St Jean and a few other members wondering what happened to me...Thanks for your concern. I've been trying to get blood in my urine problem resolved since April 21st. I had the same situation 6 years ago and the end result was to ablade a ruptured prostate vein. I went to the same hospital who did the procedure, but this time after blood and urine tests, they determined I had a bladder infection and sent me home with antibiotics. The next day clots started forming and appearing in my pee. I went to another smaller hospital branch thinking they have access to my records and being a smaller hospital, I'd have better chances of being admitted. NOPE, same diagnosis after doing their blood and urine sample. The CRAZY part, is they did a CT-scan AND bladder ultrasound (to see how much urine I was eliminating from my bladder after urinating) and BOTH showed signs of clots!! The 3rd day I woke up with the urge to pee and couldn't pee so I went to the closest military hospital (which has NO prior medical records of me) and they ended up inserting a foley catheter to relieve the pressure and manually tried syphoning out blood clots. They admitted me overnight for observation and treatment. Next day doctors felt it was "safe" for me to go home with a foley catheter and urine collection bag. What an expeience!! What I didn't know was, while in the hospital and laying in bed...my urine drained okay into the collection bag. But, at home, as soon as I get up, I get the urge to pee with pressure that my urine by-passes the catherter, down along the catheter or my pant leg onto the floor!! I suspect by agitating what's in my bladder, the clots get agitated and blocks the catheter entrance...just my common sense opinion, I'm not an educated doctor! So I went back to the military hospital emergency room. They admitted me over the weekend Apr. 26-27 with the intent of doing an exploratory surgery on the 28th. After discussion with the Urology team, they decided to send me home and scheduled a surgery May 14th. So, I'm basically laying in bed most of the day until surgery day. I found out and realized the hospitals here in Washington are over worked, don't have sufficient facilities to admit and hold you unless you're bleeding to death, or dying. Hopefully, I will have the surgery in 2 days and everything will be resolved.

@Dulins Mary I can see where our "conversation" is going. I'm not sure how much you'll understand but Super Affiliate Academy (Free) is a safe community where we can get to meet other like-minded people, get to know and support each other, and share VALUE. It appears that you're "lurking" around, trying to show "interest" in other people but it's obvious your main objective is to promote your store. Continue your tactics and you WILL get banned. Have you checked out any of the classrooms yet? I'm SURE there are strategies that can help you with promoting your store and make more sales.

@David St Jean thank you.

@Sonja D'Angelo

@David St Jean thanks for your comment...check your chat.