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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

Okay folks, here is the deal. If you are so broke that you are sitting on less than half a paycheck in the bank, then sit tight until you have a little bit of money saved up. You are not going to make any headway in working from home on affiliate marketing if you have absolutely no cash to put out on making the thing go. Running yourself further into the hole is not going to help. Besides, the reason you are where you are now is most likely (not always, true) a result of rash buying decisions. Thinking someone is going to show you how to makes millions for $17 is not the way to go.

Quit it. Quit taking chances on $17 promises. Just for chuckles I have spent the last few days working through several offers in order to what was what and whether there was any value whatsoever and, sad to say, there is very little. One of the core purposes of this site is to let you know what works; what I have found to be legitimate, and also what is absolutely hogwash. This means in addition to things I know are working, such as my Nutronix business, my silver bullion and my coconut sap sugar business, I also have to report on what does not work.

One fellow has a new twist and I will play. He says if I do everything he says to do in his newsletter everyday, I will make $1,000 in 30 days. We shall see. I mean, he could be right. I was certain there would be an upsell going in. He did not disappoint. If his steps make me a grand in 30 days, I will recommend him to you and show you the check.

Go to work if you have a job. If you do not, find one. Be frugal, save a little money for emergencies, be practical. You did not get here in a day and you won’t get out in a day. Some folks, more than a few, have managed to have significant money coming in after 90 days. You are going to need a little money for operating expenses as you promote your affiliate site, right? You have to generate leads, do you not? There are ways to do this; this is a business; business means you have costs.

Scenario: You are barely able to meet your needs needs from your paycheck. Creditor after creditor is breathing down your neck. You have $25 in the bank until you get paid on Thursday – you with me? Hard freaking times indeed we are talking here. You are out on the web looking for some help and voila! a by gumption- GAH-ron-TEED program for $17.00!

That is it! $17.00 measely little old dollars, not even the price of Chinese for two folks from a decent hole in the wall place. You think about. Naaaah. You know it probably crap. Still, it might be for real. Maybe. You putter around for the next hour, rereading and rereading and rereading. Hope begins to grow. Finally you cannot help yourself, you whip out your credit card, enter the number and what is the very first thing on the welcome page? Yup…if you REALLY want to be successful, you need THIS!

…whatever this may be. For another $79 you can have it, too! (or $39, or $197 or whatever.)You are burning a little around the ears right now, mostly because you are feeling like Ricky Ricardo when his steering wheel was stolen and the fellow was trying to sell it back to him. It said he would show me everything, did it not? Yes, it did. You are not crazy. You are wrapped in the moth, funnel cloud, two and a half gainer upselling system.  No, you say, then again, hit cancel to again become subject to the next discounted price.

Please do not fall for it when you are dead broke. Admittedly, some of these systems will work if you have some operating capital. If you do not, you are killing yourself and your spirit by one disappointing bad purchasing decision at a time. Besides, I know for a fact if you stand your ground long enough they will get the price of the next sell right. But again, you still have to have operating money to make it work.

Now, I am all for working from home. I want it again so bad I am hitting the sack a lot of times at midnight and getting back up at 2AM. Why? Because this is not easy. Were it easy, it would not be possible for folks to earn $100,000 doing it. The difficulty is what makes it worth the juice. If it were not for the fact that I have an awesome job, I would already be working from home but my goal is to have my online business matching a multiple of my job.

I am here to help you. I don’t want your last dime because if I take you last dime, you will have nothing with which to work your business. This is called stupid and counterproductive. You will get frustrated and my name will be mud and if you have been paying attention you know that is not what I want. If it sounds too good to be true, it might be, but not always. Keep a wary eye on the lookout is all I am saying.

In order to get started, really started in affiliate marketing on some kind of fast track, you are going to have to spend some money and even then you are talking a crap shoot. The best programs I have seen out there from a professional standpoint and what they give you are going to cost you a $1,000.00, period. There may be some programs out there that you can get into and get started but do you really have the time to try to figure out what they are not telling you in the $17 programs? I mean, sure, you will get some value, perhaps even enough to make your money back, but this is not going to be a breakout program like an MLM business that sells a consumable product that actually has a demonstrated benefit and can indeed be started for less than $500 in most cases. Nutronix can be started for less that $50.00.  Actually, that is not entirely accurate. There is no cost to get started, the $50 or so is for your first order of product that will make you feel better anyway. Lord knows if you are living hand to mouth you probably are not getting proper nutrition anyways and this will help.

As for the freebies? Get all you can get and read them. They have value. They are designed to get you on the track to spend money in order to make money. Anything here that is free is designed to help you get started. I recommend them and give them away because in my opinion I believe they will help you get started. You are going to need to dig in and go to your gutcheck and start putting together some financial resources in order to prime the pump.

These things may not be what you want to hear. Some master marketers may find this article infuriating. Everything I have written here is true and based on my experiences since 1995 when I started my own ISP.

There are four main ways to become a millionaire in the USA. They are:

1. Work for Microsoft. As I understand it, Microsoft has created some 3,300 millionaires.
2. Work with a network marketing company. To date, this method has created some 2,700 cash flow millionaires and outright millionaires. These numbers will surpass Microsoft sometime. Will you be one of them?
3. Own a dry cleaning business. Yes, sir. A dry cleaning business has that most beautiful of words in the capitalistic world built right into it. Those words are repeat business. Last I heard the number was somewhere around 1500 or so.
4. Pharmaceutical sales. Yep.

A $17.00 act of desperation is not going to get you rolling in ANY of these fields. So, get hold of yourself, start putting back what you can, READ (I have a list, get them from the library, email me and I will provide it free) and relax. Top Ramen noodles are good and will kill the beast until you can afford better. I know this from personal experience.

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Some years ago when I decided I wanted to start my own company again, I wanted to look for something original and unique under which to build my brand. A friend who has since gone her way as people often do helped me come up with the name ‘Earthtiger’ because it was a combination of two types of signs, an earth sign and a fire sign giving it balance in the eyes of the markets in which I am particularly interested, Asian markets.

Unbeknownst to me at the time, there actually is an animal called an earthtiger. It is a large hairy spider native to Asia and has been known to bring down birds. An interesting fellow, the Earth Tiger can grow to 6 to 9 inches in length and some males have been known to have 10″ leg spans. Calling upon my European heritage, I pulled two rampant tigers from heraldry and placed at their center the Holy Grail. I thought this fitting since I am in search of my own holy grail which is making my living working for myself by importing and exporting goods to and from Asia, selling things of real worth such as silver bullion and low glycemic index coconut sap sugar, and writing, writing about, and contributing to informational and training ebooks. The look of my icon as an eight legged chimaera was coincidental. Finding that there were indeed 8 legged Earthtigers out there was a happy event.

Trying to split out the various factors of a business is sometimes difficult to do. Luckily, as time goes on the universe helps you figure it out. Those of you who follow Bear’s Book Blog from time to time have noticed that I have struggled mightily with how to organize the current three prongs of my business. Selling commodities, selling information, and reviewing books I read for both pleasure and business.

In attempting to engage in Article Marketing, I have found limitations in the http://domain/subdirectory address scheme. No one wants such an address in their articles. I suppose it cuts down on the crap that is out there because it is more problematic and labor intensive to actually own and host a domain. Whether that is it or not, you have to comply because they most likely have good reasons for it.

If nothing else, the requirement helped me to go ahead and commit to WordPress as my platform for Earthtiger.info. In addition, looking around at my favorite websites I have noticed that while the lot of them are very different a large pecentage of maybe more than half are running on WordPress.

Who am I to argue? WordPress works.