1 - Tools down, Mouse Up: First Steps to Financial Freedom

Long story short, I haven't made any money online. Actually, I have lost about AUD$30k online from poor decisions with crypto investments. I have a $14k Tax debt to the Australian tax office, I have my first baby due in 6 weeks, and I have no idea what I'm doing in life, or how to make money online. So I want you to come along with me on my journey from scummy welder to financial freedom. Even know I have no idea what I’m doing I will be exploring all ways to earn money online.

I am a boilermaker welder living in Western Australia, I have worked in mining industry since I was 17 (I am now 33), so 16 years. I have been burnt from welding so much that I look like a really shit junkie with scars and burns all over my arms, I have sweated enough in my lifetime to keep an Alabama soup kitchen running through crypto winter. It’s not an easy job. Rough on the body. There is a reason you don't see any 60 year old Tradesmen, they lose their sight or destroy their backs.

In a lot of countries around the world, you can complete a 4-year apprenticeship and become a qualified welder, a qualified fabricator, or a qualified pipe fitter. But due to a shortage of skilled labor in Australia since the 90s we have not had that luxury. Instead we complete a 4-year apprenticeship to be a boilermaker who basically can do anything about 70% good. Do you need that pipe welded so it can pass an X-ray? I can do it about 70% of the time. You need a pipe run between two tanks. I can do it about 30% slower than an actual pipe fitter. Do you need me to fabricate a cambered conveyor truss that is 25 meters long? first off what the junk is a cambered truss and yeah no worries ill get started. This 70/30 rule also spills over to my non-work life as I have no idea what the hell is going on 30% of the time, and when I don't know I just fake it so I can discreetly figure it out and give the air that I knew all along. as Forrest Gump once said, "I am not a smart man, but I know what welding ihss.."

My Goals for this journey:

• Make back the 30k I lost in crypto.

• Figure out and document how to make money online.

• learn what affiliate marketing is and how to best set it up for my circumstances.

• Earn my first commission through affiliate marketing

  I have absolutely zero confidence in myself so let's keep this really simple for now. I want you to come along with me on this journey so you can learn how to do it for yourself, and to keep me accountable, to you, a stranger online, who I don't want to let down, more than myself. Apparently.

  I will be posting every Wednesday, alternating between an earn money online post, and a post about a story from my life so you can understand what drives me in this wild world we call 2023.