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Offshore Oil Rig Jobs

I worked offshore shortly after I came out of high school. For some bizarre reason, and bad advice to which I listened, I blew off all my scholarships and decided to hit the road. I would like to be able to type, “Whatever. I am over it,” but it would be a lie.

I worked my way across the country, sleeping on concrete picnic tables in order to save money. One of my jobs was working at an Autozone in Garden Grove, California. Some months later I wound up in Cutoff, Louisiana working for South Lafourche Labor Crews, a company that supplied roustabouts to oil companies. That job sucked outrageously mainly because Mitch was not a good employer and so I moved on, and back to college (on my dime.) I later heard Mitch’s company had been raided for all kinds of illegal activities sending him to prison, so my sense of time to go turned out to be very accurate.

After 14 years of marriage, a semi-successful insurance career and a blazingly successful Internet Service Provider start up which was robbed by my partners and subsequently was a major cause of divorce, I began looking at going back offshore. This was in 1998.

Pondering over how long it took to get my job, I honestly don’t have a sense of how many months it took me to land the job but I do remember that it was not a short process. Once I landed the job, I found myself living in a bunkhouse going through classes and training and depressed as hell because, boy, how the mighty had fallen. My business was gone and here I was, working for an hourly wage again. Thank goodness they started training us on how to exit a helicopter that had made a water landing and had turned upside down in the water. Nothing and I mean nothing will get your mind off feeling sorry for yourself better than keeping your focus on how to get out of a seat you’re held in by a six point seatbelt while you are submerged and upside down.

Once I got into the routine of working offshore I realized a couple of things. First, as long as I was on the job and on the clock, the clock was working in my favor. If I were home watching television the clock was working against me. It was an epiphany that took me reaching my late 30s, going through a robbery and a divorce to understand. Second, coming home after a month long stint to a fat bank account made me want to hold to the rod longer even when I was offshore. I got to where I was uncomfortable if I was not on the ship, barge, or platform working. Besides, it is agreeable work. Some of us started at 6AM and worked until 6PM, some from 6PM until 6AM. Some of use from 5 to 5, same deal.

For the single guy, it was a dream job. I once stayed nearly 90 days straight. That homecoming only made it worse for my hankering to be back on the ship because I could see myself getting ahead. Others worked the traditional two weeks on and two weeks off. Many had saved their money and used the oil field job to pay their bills and ran things like a contracting or backhoe business to pay for toys and fund their retirement on their off weeks. I am sure you understand when I say it took me a little while before thinking of being in business for myself again. I worked in the oil fields and I recovered from the robbery and the divorce, one day at a time.

I wish I had had these people’s help when I started looking. I can guarantee that should I ever look to returning to the oil fields and its honest, well paying work, these people will lead the way.

If you think working in the oil fields might be for you, and I highly recommend it as a place to work, try these folks on for size.

Best Regards,

Tim Singleton

“Mr. Singleton, we are interested in working with a few key individuals because our number one goal today is to identify a few key individuals with whom we can work and whose success story we can use in the future.”

Sounds good, right? Hell, more than that, it sounds fair.

“So what your saying is all you want is for me to work with your coaches to build a successful business and you get to use my success story in marketing your system, correct?”

“ Absolutely. All we want is your best efforts and willingness to be teachable and accountable.”

Teachable and accountable from my network marketing days I have come to realize means you are willing to get on their book and tape list which in some cases accounts for large percentages of their incomes, sometimes the majority of their incomes. The miracle butt cream they are pushing or the $6 tube of magic root toothpaste is apparently for the selling to others and pays limited percentages until you get to where you are moving a buttload of books and tapes.

Anyways. I am over it.

One such system swore to me that there was no charge, then about three quarters of the way through the conversation he started talking about a grant to cover the cost of the program. I asked why did I need a grant if all they wanted was my best efforts. I have to be frank in that I have looked at so many programs that this guy’s discomfort was humorous to me because he was so busted.

The point is they wanted to teach me to do a drop ship program using eBay and my own websites and all for the low price of $1,200.00. Well, DOBA charges a monthly fee and these folks had a onetime fee of $1,200.00. I negotiated that down to $300.00 mainly by saying that was what I was willing to pay or I was walking. They came back with $400.00 and I bit…in two equal payments of $200.00, of course, and with the provision that the first con man who called me not get paid because he lied when he said there was no charge.

If their service sucks in 30 days I will cancel and if they want to come after me in small claims, so be it, I will hammer them. I am hopeful that they can actually keep their word. The fellow I am working with seems to be an okay fellow. I am keeping the name of the company confidential for now. If I have not earned my $200 back in 30 days, or if I have, I will report on it.

There are some folks out there who are making a LOT of money. Sadly, I suspect a ton of it is done by overpromising, underdelivering, and having the best disclaimer and terms of agreement out there that money can by. Selling something for $39.95 has got to be the best gig in town because it is cheap enough that lots of folks will take a chance and too small for anybody to sue over when it does not perform up to snuff. Has ANYBODY bought a system for $39.95 that even earned them their money back? A few, it is true, very few.

All of which sucks and screws up the market when you really want to sell good products which are of equal value to the price you charge.

This company claims it will teach me how to build drop shipping relationships with people in that business and show me how to profitably use eBay and how to use eBay to drive people to my own website.

Well, we will see. After all, I have spent more than $400 on a date, on a bad date. Hopefully, they can actually come through. I will consider the program a success if it earns me in a month what I paid for it. Working at home clearly has to be built in sections and pieces, just like the house you want to work out of.

-Tim

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You know, you find a product that is exciting because it clearly fills a need, it has a proven track record of success as a revenue stream, and you genuinely feel it will be a benefit to your client at least equal to the purchase price. You decide on a domain name to post your landing page, you set up your autoresponder, and you begin customizing the landing pages and the software or product as instructed.

Only…those instructions tell you to customize it to read in the first person when you did not write ANY of it.

All of a sudden you are moving slow and staring off into space a bit. Disclaimers being what they are, you still know you did not write the thing. The experiences cited are not yours even though the work is written in the first person. Now, I know prose written in the first person is more interesting to read. “The author of this work found himself to be excited” just does not read as well as “Dude, I was fired UP!”

So, to return to the point of this article, a question I have not answered yet. Is it legal, moral and ethical to buy the rights to a work (yes, clearly) and represent that you are the author (no way) even with the original author’s explicit permission because it was his or her intent that you do so? Here, my mental gears grind because it is not plagiarism as I conceive the concept because plagiarism to me implies theft which is not the case here.

I do want to market the products but I will not unless I can come up with a way to explicitly inform the potential buyer of the fact that I am selling it under Private Lable Resell rights without compromising the sales copy. If the issue of it being a product sold under license from another makes the product somehow less beneficial to the purchaser then I have wasted a hell of a lot of time.

At a quarter of the cost of the last system reviewed, you are getting TONS of bonuses, videos that are easily followed, references to resources that you will use for years, and the genuine ownership of three businesses with REAL products of clear value with The Cash Code.

In two hours, you can have a website up, running, and delivering product. I am more excited about The Cash Code than I have been about a product in a long time. Check out The Cash Code for a real shot at freedom.

Here is an example of what you will get. This is one of my LIVE SITES that I am promoting as a result of purchasing and implementing The Cash Code.

My plan with The Cash Code is simple. Set them up, drive traffic to them, cash the checks from PayPal.

Regards,

Tim

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At $997 for a system that provides four websites and hopefully gets you on the fast track to an online income, you would think that the articles used for article marketing to drive traffic to your sites would be a little more in depth. You would also expect that the support folks would respond faster.

I purchased Cash System X and worked it, HARD, because plainly and simply I am in the HUNT to make my online business equal my day job. Why? Because I want choices and options should I say the wrong thing at work and I want to be able to retire in style in eleven years. I will be 58, my first born will be around 10, my sweetie will still be considered as too young for me by many, and when I teach my kids concerning Egypt it will be at the foot of the pyramids in the shadow of the Pharoahs.

I paid the $997 because the sales copy was convincing. I thought I was purchasing 4 websites that would be set up for me. While the situation is more complex than that, I have to say that someone who is completely new to this stuff will not be able to get the system up and running within the 30 money back guarantee timeframe. This is my opinion and it is a strong opinion.

When I did indicate to them that I wanted a refund, it took some doing. While I will give them the benefit of the doubt as to why my refund was so long coming – mistakes and crap happens to the best of us – the slow response and lack of response in the final straw that led to the refund request makes me take the position that when thinking of which system to try you need to X Cash System X OFF your list.

I finally got my refund because I got the company who processed the payment involved in the situation. Not good.

Cash System X. Recommendation: Steer clear.

Regards,

Tim

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Sometimes you have to just say no and end a relationship. As always, there is the possibility that you are making a mistake. Yet, these decisions have to be made. I say make them and move on. No one decision such as this can make or break a company anyways. I still feel compelled to comment on it, though. Mainly because I am in the hunt to build a company built on good, quality products and services which I am not ashamed to have my name associated with.

If you do not believe me, you are welcome to move on. See, I am tired of the situation we are in as a people right now. No one in my opinion cares as much about doing a quality job as they do about getting paid. I like to think that I, Timothy Lynn Singleton, do care as much.

I sell gold and silver. Why? Because there is no more sure way to protect your savings from total loss than precious metals.

I am in the process of setting up an Amsoil distributorship: Why? Because I want to run it in my own vehicles and it is of Rearden Steel quality by all accounts.

We are proud to be a Nutronix distributor: Why? Because the first two thoughts I have when I saw the product and opportunity were first, I need to get this into the hands of my mother and second, this system is do-able and duplicatable by any and everyone.

We sell coconut sap sugar that has a glycemic index safe for diabetics: Why? Because there are more than a few diabetics around me, I love and use the product, and it helps diabetics to be able to enjoy their food more.

What is the thread holding these products together? Me and my belief in their ability to make peoples’ lives better.

Having worked my way through more than a few supposed systems for using clickbank as a way to make a good affiliate income in the last few weeks, I can tell you now that when you go down the path of looking for a system just be prepared to lose some money in simply bad products.

I am not referring to clickbank products because clickbank has proven itself over time to be on the up and up.

I am referring to the so-called gurus who want to tell you how to get rich from clickbank for $39.95…or $399.95. The really special ones, though, tell you that for $39.95 they will tell you how to be free. You sign up and sure, yeah, you have the bones of a plan…for another $197 they will give you the rest of the puzzle. So, there you find yourself more than a little pissed and having to go through the refund process.

So, having spent some time in the affiliate marketing sphere, looking into all the ins and out of various offerings, I decided to pull the plug on chasing so called experienced gurus. One company was kind enough to try to keep my business by asking me what was wrong:

Thanks for your email. May I ask what features of your premium membership you were not impressed with or what you felt let you down from your expectations? We are so committed to helping our members succeed that we would love to be given the chance to help you out in anyway we can, you name it!

Please be aware that once we cancel your Premium subscription you will have no further access to the Premium area and Premium tools. Your account will have this access level removed immediately.

We are more than happy to cancel your account if this doesn’t interest you. Please email us back and we will process your cancellation immediately.

Hope we can help out.

They were trying to be nice and of service, so I kind of felt bad for some odd reason. Their site was better organized than most. Still, I have the information I needed in a usable format that I can integrate into my business plan. Since I had an inkling of appreciation for their efforts (no one else bothers to listen, they just keep pounding away with cool copy hoping something will prod me into spending money.) I decided to answer them in a complete fashion as it might help them. Who knows? I might return down the road as a customer. Here is my reply:

Information overload, actually.

See, I have looked into a TON of affiliate marketing programs lately. Some will say, “$39 and we will teach you about affiliate marketing. Okay, so I pay and BANG! Right there on the first page is an upsell to ‘really get ALL the secrets.’ I understand about upsell, but do NOT promise me the moon in order to get the down payment and then hold me hostage for another $197…or another $995 in one case.

Not saying YOU did this, just explaining myself in detail in order to help you understand my decision. Moving on.

As I say, I have signed into a number of programs. One I paid $299 for. I saved the money over a number of months because I was determined to do everystep outlined in the program because it said in 90 days I could be generating an income I could live on. Well, guess what? Half the links in the program did not work. Sure, I have no doubt this fellow is making money hand over fist with the number of websites he has out there, but that really does not help me, does it? Regretfully and after five different requests for help in at least making the links work, I requested and quickly received a refund. Please understand, I did not want a refund, I wanted the information so I could work the program.

Now…and this part you are going to love…many of the various programs I have signed into are now trying to cross sell me each other’s programs and products. What the hell is that? I tell you what it is, many of these big dogs are making a killing off of people’s desperation and hopes and it is not right; it is theft by deception in my opinion.

Again, this is not aimed at you, just trying to help you understand why I am canceling.

Besides the upsells that in some cases can total nearly 2 grand and even more in some cases, there is the barrage of emails from the gurus who are desperately trying to find just the right pitch that will cause me to let loose of my money. Which in and of itself is not a bad thing, it is what I want to learn to do to sell clickbank products, too. It is bizarre to pay money for one plan, then have the people you paid that money to try to sell you yet another plan, then, while you are in the middle of digesting that plan, they are promoting a buddy’s plan and finally you have to say, “Hold on, I have repeatedly asked what is THE best way to market as an affiliate on the Internet. You have changed horses three times in three weeks and I cannot think clearly, what is it you are telling me I should do?”

The simplest solution to me is to STOP and get off ALL the horses because you can only ride one horse at a time if you want to get anywhere.  Finally, I come across a plan that explains to me how to market clickbank products in conjunction with several other opportunities and guess what? The knowledge is free. I just had to keep looking and wading.

I have no idea if yours is effective or not. I simply know that I cannot make more than one system work at a time and am so overcome with so-called affiliate marketing systems right now that I cannot continue on this path.

I am sticking to my original plan. Find products and services of good quality and come up with an honest marketing plan that does the product justice and is in no way misleading or overstating of the benefits of the product or service.

I think telling the truth about a good product or service is a good way to sell the product to a person who wants it. I cannot address yours as there is just no way for me to swallow everything in the amount of time I have in a day. I have formulated a system I think will work from the gems I have managed to dig out and I am on my way. I am in the business of moving products and services offered through two main companies, certain clickbank products, and a small but growing number of tangibles that reach a specific level of quality. That’s it.

Please carry out my request for cancellation as I do wish to cancel.

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In the beginning, my hobby: Electronic Prozac

Back in the 90′s…boy, does that sound old for someone born in the middle of the 20th century because when I was coming up, something in the 90′s meant 19th Century so, yes, I just had an ‘Oh, wow” moment…anyways back in the 90′s, the 1990s, that is, AOL, Prodigy, and my local BBS aka Bulletin Board System were my hobbies.Rushing home from work, I would fire up my lightspeed fast 2400 baud modem and I am cruising far away libraries, arguing with Windows fans over why IBM’s OS/2 Warp 3.0 was better than Windows and downloading electronic versions of research papers, and playing Tournament L.O.R.D.

It was a rush and it was intoxicating for many reasons not the least of which I was able for a while, to be someone else in a land or lands that was somewhere else. It was admittedly and consciously pain relieving escapism because I sorely hated my job and wanted out.Then opportunity walked in and slapped me down, hard. I was fired.

Bouncing back, I landed a job as an OS/2 trainer for IBM through one of their contracting companies. My job was to go out and train Value Added Resellers on the benefits of using and promoting OS/2 Warp. We did an excellent job, moving 5 times as many copies of Warp as IBM indicated would save, <ahem> EXTEND our job contracts. IBM’s version of saving my job included moving my family to Dallas, Texas. No, but thanks anyway. They probably feel they kept their end of the bargain; I do not agree.

Starting My Own Business: What Was I Thinking: First Steps

In my estimation, if you are going to start your own business, there are some groundwork got to haves that need to be lain in stone. First, have no partners. I will leave that for you to think about as I know thousands of business partnerships succeed everyday. Let me just say, like the fellow in the movie The Italian Job who did not like dogs but would not elaborate, I had a bad experience.

Second, you have to read some basic primers on starting your own business. The Small Business Administration has tons of free resources and yes, much of it is not applicable, but much is. Besides, wading through all those resources with eyes wide open will trigger a lot of thinking you may not have done yet and that is never a bad thing. Take a week, a month, or even heckfire until Christmas and browse the business sections of your local bookstores. Barnes and Noble and Books-A-Million are the ones local to me. Some of your more niche oriented bookstores may not be the way to go. Many are too narrowly focused on the personal interests of the proprietor which is perfectly fine, but you need material to stimulate your brain and these stores often are too narrow in their in house collections. Barnes and Nobel and Books-A-Million all carry vast selections based on repeat sales (assumably because the books are helpful and recommended by word of mouth.)

Third, write a business plan. Go ahead, write one out freehand, outlining all the things you want to do and how you think you will do them. Define what and how you will make money and how you will get paid. Then run it past your accountant. After he gets through shooting holes in your plan, THEN go and find some businessplan software, read books on the subject, and go back again for another evaluation to see what holes still need to be plugged. Don’t get aggravated at your accountant, either. He or she does not understand your dream and that is perfectly jake. Their business is not to understand your dream, it is to understand where your business is as a business so they can help you get on track. I say do it freehand first because that is the only way I know to make sure your dreams are the ones instilled in the plan and not just those you soaked up from reading business plan template language that will overwhelm you in your current naive state.

On the issue of accountants, that brings us to the whole issue of advisors. You need them. You will, in my opinion, need an accountant, a banker, an attorney, and once you get going, a financial planner, hopefully of the certified kind holding either a CLU or Ch.FC designation, my preference being the latter since they seem to be more service rather than product oriented, but again that is my opinion based on my time owning my own business running an Internet Service Provider as well as having worked in the financial planning side of the life insurance business for nearly a decade.

Fourth, make sure you really want to do your hobby as your job. I love computers, always have. My avocation became my vocation out of necessity. When I retire do you think I will be tinkering and fooling with PCs the way I am now? If your answer to your version of this question is not yes, you may need a new hobby, too.

But Why?

If I have to explain it, it is maybe not for you. Still, here are MY reasons for wanting to work for myself.

I like to work; I am at work these days sometimes more than an hour early. I hate traffic with a purple passion and go to great lengths to avoid it. No, there is nothing quite as special as hundreds of thousands of equally miserable and often desperately unhappy folks wrapped in 2100lbs. metal death machines hurtling through time and space up and down the freeways moving in the direction of where they do not want to go.

No one likes the schedule to which I seem to be born. 4AM until Noon I am on fire and full of energy. Working for myself lets me apply the fat part of the bell curve of my energy to my work. I ilke that.

It is the only way you can truly call yourself a free person. If you find yourself watching what you say at work because you are afraid it will affect your job, do you really think you are living the life of a self-actualized, FREE individual? I don’t. You may think you are as free as the next person, but you are not. Your lifestyle is controlled by the size of your paycheck and your paycheck is controlled by another human being. Your choices in how to live your life is the interaction of what you need, what you want, and what you get paid.

How do I do this?

1. Decide if you are serious.
2. Decide what it is you think you might want to do and leave yourself room to change your mind
3. Explore your local bookstore business sections. You are not doing anything but letting your mind get used to the idea and letting books titles and covers inspire you.
4. Write out a business plan including everything you like about the idea of being in business for yourself.
5. Let an accountant look at it and have him tell you what you are missing from a business person’s point of view.
6. Take advantage of the business plan software packages and books that are available.
7. Re-write the business plan taking into account the books’. software, and accountant suggestions.
8. Have it re-reviewed.
9. Assemble your team of advisors: CPA, attorney, banker, and later on a financial consultant. Also, you will want a mentor who is successful as a business owner in some non-advisor related field.
10. Kickoff.

Now, go make some money living your dream.

-Tim

Following are helpful links:

• Interested in opening a crafts business? Here is a business plan tailored for you.
• What about a more traditional business plan? Try this. It has lots of sample business plans.
• Are you an exercise freak? Or fitness buff if you prefer? Look at this Personal Fitness Trainer plan.
• If you are interested in a business that is going to require you to raise capital, this one may be what you are looking for.

Do what you love, the money will follow: Discovering your right livelihood. by Marsha Sinetar

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