[friendociate]

When I was 14 (about 23 years ago) I was generally amazing---I was a near-virtuoso violinist, a national-award-winning music-composer, an awesome percussionist (well the only 'freshman' (9th-grader) snare-drummer on our school's marching-band's drumline), and could run like the wind.

But I wasn't fast enough when--running to catch up with friends on a lunch-break at a statewide marching-band contest--I was hit by a car and killed.

Obviously, I "came back." But not immediately, and not all at once---dead for a few minutes, I was in a coma for a few weeks, paralyzed for a few months, and still have a slice of 'blind' in my left eye and still can't run (and I walk kinda funny).

As it's not known exactly how my brain healed, I have to stay 'disabled' (and thus 'unemployable' ... because--the way most TBIs 'speak as if they are stuck at the age of their injury'--I missed the chance to 'work through some young-men's maturity issues' when I was working on recovering my voice).

And all that was before The Internet was something the public used---it was mostly just military, banking & email---no popular websites like we have today (except for maybe some Usenet forums you used if you were a big-enough NERD to own 'that kind of equipment').

When I first started 'getting on the Internet,' it was mostly at Oklahoma City University's main computer-lab or at public libraries that had 'free Wi-Fi.' That was when you couldn't "make money" online unless you 'owned' a website.

Even now (as far as I know) you can't earn a living wage online unless a) you own a website, b) you're advertising 'something inappropriate' or c) you 'cheat the system' a little.

Luckily, I'm not here for 'a living wage' (though I won't refuse it if I manage to 'earn' one here). I mostly share my non-judgmental judgments in various 'places' online (Facebook-groups, MyLot.com, my Etymology (word-root-history) blog, etc.)

[Lushh]

Welcome to ForumCoin @friendociate. Cheers to much fun and excitement as you explore the topics here and initiate discussions. See you around....

[nakitakona]

Thank God that you have survived. He has a good if not better plan for you why you lived for such terrible accident you met. Enjoy you life to its fullest so to speak. God bless.

[friendociate]

Thank God that you have survived. He has a good if not better plan for you why you lived for such terrible accident you met. Enjoy you life to its fullest so to speak. God bless.

It's nice of you to say that, but I wish you wouldn't demean Abba so (both by calling him that name and by imagining his reason is limited to linear time like ours).

Maybe this is 'his "plan" for me': to have me go against all the well-meaning 'belief-led sheep.' You would think 'most of the Old Testament' would stand as proof that he DOESN'T 'have a plan' so much as he 'moves people to make the right decisions in order to lead their followers down the right path' (The Eightfold Path? )

[ptrikha21]

You are quite brave to survive and handle such difficulties. So from where does your major earnings come? Some offline thing?

[friendociate]

So from where does your major earnings come? Some offline thing?

'Used to be' (and still is, as far as I know) 'online income' was a weird thing---something nobody ever attempted ... so much so that the usual answer to the question, "How do you make money online?" was 'Go offline & get a job!'

"Online" was like 'a virtual arcade' (one of those shops where kids used to go to play those huge box-shaped video-games). Or one of those playgrounds in the public park. The idea of 'making money' there ... not very respectable.

Because of a very-basic principle behind 'making money': a "law of the universe" known as Quid pro Quo (literally 'this for that'). The standard practice is that you give 'your time' to someone (during which time you follow their orders), and they fulfill their side of a contract by giving you an agreed-upon amount of money.

The TBI left me unable to 'consistently perform' (i.e. since I don't depend on employment income, employers can't be sure I'll follow orders as obediently as someone who depends on that paycheck), so I can't honestly get a job offline. I barely get by on a too-small settlement with the insurance-company of the man who hit me, so I am more comfortable living as a dependent (of both my mother and--since she's not immortal--my sister).

[ceci]

Nice meeting you here @friendociate. Hope you enjoy here a lot.

I love the "law of universe" that you shared, I always send my order to Universe for getting more jobs.

[Fergal]

Apologies for the belated reply friendociate, it's been great meeting you and getting to know you here on ForumCoin. I enjoy reading your unique perspective on things and hope to see you back posting here soon.