Certain aspects of being chronically ill wiped me out after I talked to him but he put me on the right path. I’m keeping up with cleaning the house, and staying home a lot due to the pandemic. I’m vaccinated for a lot of different things like the flu and COVID. For goodness’ sake, get the booster. I’m not sick right now as the case may be, precisely because I got vaccinated. Anyway, I found a mentor for my non-profit at long last. Sometimes you have to make noise. SCORE put all its Silicon Valley webinars online. They also made them freeish? I’m confused.
And my next step is to buy some more Nolo press books on non-profits. I got my usual $25 from ProductReportCard. You can get decent surveys, make actual Amazon certificates, and get stuff. I ordered this one book I needed for my own personal sanity. I have a lot of other survey companies I’m a member of but of course I can’t do all of them in one day. I have to pick and choose.
For ThriftyPig, I’m almost at 50 coins which can be redeemed also. I need potting soil but Amazon doesn’t get what brand Miracle Grow while eBay does. I’m working on my research project for owning franchises but of course, I’m doing the ooh shiny thing again with my interests, my many interests. By Ooh Shiny I mean that it is the Ooh Shiny Effect. No sooner do I find one interest, then I get easily bored, going, what am I doing? I’m deciding to take social psychology in Spring Quarter at Foothill College . I have to kick my own ass into dealing with the counseling department at said school.
I can multi-task despite my schizoaffective, probably better because of it. Chronic illness is simply our narrative in this society. I found a decent mentor who gets me. I had one session with him and it is time to arrange another one . I need to get that book, so today I’ve decided to find a copy on Amazon . I mean I’m just a productive person who is still meeting my work goals despite my chronic illnesses. Type 1 diabetes can be hard to deal with even if you infuse.
I’m trying to get this particular beast under control. I’m out of sensors to use with my continuous glucose monitor I’m keeping in the charger as Instructed to by tech support. My shipment is coming after January 30th. As far as my hernia-trapped body with its crazy limited diet goes, I can no longer have jam with citric acid in it. This causes me acid reflux. I am trying to find brands without it, organic brands from Etsy.
I’m losing my mind as my diet is becoming more limited by the day. I’d have to be on a liquid diet after hernia surgery, I’d also need a roommate. Someone sane who will not treat me badly. I’d also live with someone who works outside of the house during the day. I mean I’d charge a cheap rent. I cannot live with someone who works front lines but who is vaccinated and masked. I am a business of one but I got my booster. It is the height of stupidity not to get a booster. I went and got one for myself to stay well.
When I call domestic violence organizations for help, they assume that I’m calling about leaving an abusive partner. They have limited resources for people trying to escape toxic families to none at all. If it’s your family, its like, bah, why should we help you? I’m a member of various Facebook groups I’m not going to mention here since my family never reads this blog anyway. See what I deal with? I have family on three continents and they think the problems are my fault. Nobody helps me financially either.
My organization is going to try to help people financially. I envision buying and taking over a huge warehouse as our base of operations. How many chronically ill and disabled people are stuck with their families? How much abuse do we have to tolerate? Quite a lot. I’m looking to start fundraising in the near future. I’ve done at least one SCORE class on non-profits. The most useful advice I got was put everything in a separate account.
What advice I get from SCORE is to get a real job. But then again I’m a writer who wants to publish books. That’s a real enough job for me considering how much money books can make? It is easy to get a bestseller status, which is 100,000 copies. See, I work hard most days, but it goes unsung and unrecognized. I keep trying to find a job but I feel honestly like I’m under a curse.
You see, some people tell lies about my capabilities that my community believes. I mean if my family worked in that community but no one from major companies is willing to hire me because of my disability that oh I’m not supposed to talk about but it unfortunately impacts my life. Am I supposed to move about sight unseen, hidden, lurking and hiding my disability in plain sight, which would get me into serious trouble as some have suggested?
Is all of Mountain View aware that what they believe about me is a false narrative? I was never retarded or on the autism spectrum, period. I took a psychological test that proves I’m not ADD at all much less on the spectrum, and as it is I’m way more educated than both parents. I’m actually quite hard to frak with, take advantage of and I can spot a liar very quickly. Why today I wasn’t necessarily hiding my psychic talent either? But apparently my local metaphysical shops believe bad things about me too.
Or maybe its just my own belief system screwing with my self-confidence because I’m under a don’t you dare get a job kind of psychic attack. I have sent out so many applications and at times I don’t even get non-paid internships. I mean I need to see a hypnotist to get rid of this crap. Honestly, since my family apparently wants my money without earning it. Out of the sheer goodness of my heart, wow, yeah, okay, nobody gets a dime until everybody gets tested for 22q.
You will be bribed into a blood test. Yes, I mean from my mother to my father and everybody else in between. You just never know which kid will be born schizoaffective next. It could be my cousin’s children when they have children. Yes, I think that far ahead. I mean if some people got lucky with their daughter, it does not mean that someday she might have a child with the deletion.
I’d rest easier if I knew who carries the deletion and who doesn’t. In 2014, I laid groundwork for eventually getting this project done, while putting it on film. Not that I want to go to Spain right now, I have a hiatal hernia, which means my traveling options are limited. I might run into massive complications. We don’t want to be the sick passenger, ever because I can indefinitely keep my shit together. I’m not setting foot in Spain without an entourage, including a huge security detail. Since no family helps me financially, how the hell are they just going to help themselves to my money? Some have said in private it isn’t necessary. K, freeloaders?
Even when I make real money, it is not about give it to mommy and daddy syndrome yeah? It is about me paying the HOA fee and the property taxes that’s what. That’s all the mula you’ll be getting dumbasses. I’m not made of money? What makes you think I’m rich beehach? What I want to do is impress the crap out of this planet and people who assume things are impossible for someone with 22q/Velocardiofacial syndrome to do. And a word, I know about the Ex’s situations, and I would like it if he stay away from me because he’s decompensating yeah? He ain’t getting a freakin dime either. The siblings of the Ex ignore this blog and me also, and I’m really sick to death of not having real money around but hey I’ve got to keep plugging away stuff.
Don’t get me wrong, I like it, I work hard, and my neighborhood knows it. But the thing is, one of my old doctors remarked that I’m in the wrong business. Then again, she has a point, although I’m learning how to manage stress so that fact doesn’t get to me. Therapy helps you learn stress management. As it is, I have like three therapists right now. The thing about life in general is that you have to make an effort, to succeed. It is not random- the thing about success is that it is planned. I’m working on learning how to pitch my writing, it will take time to learn-eventually I’m going to publish stuff. Working hard eventually pays off even if there are no guarantees.
I am faced with the task of starting a board of directors. This board plays a legal and practical role at any organization, which my book Starting and Building a Nonprofit reminds me of. A non-profit like mine which strives to help people escape medically abusive families is going to rely on donations. But I also want my own money so I can buy property with it so as to build a network of safe houses that keep people away from their abusers. I need an executive director with more experience than I have. My ideas for fundraising efforts include a dry bar/dry club where people buy non-alcoholic beverages, and the fee is a donation. Fundraising ideas include community dances, auctions, and bake sales. I have baking companies in my head after all and I could use the practice despite my anxiety.
I need to find a local Munchausen by Proxy survivor who lives in California somewhere or at least in the Bay Area. I can’t afford to pay people until I do fundraisers. If I could find retired doctors to become a trustee or board member, that would be fabulous. I mean I go to Foothill, have been going to school since 2022 that is, and I have a group of people from whom I can recruit. I’ve thought about volunteering at a non-profit but one that isn’t emotionally charged like a non-profit that works with animals. I’d have meetings on Zoom if we are all far away from each other since many of the people on the Munchausen by proxy support group live in different states.
It’d be nice to have a handle on board members who want to discuss how to raise enough money to buy out my family’s house as the first property I need to buy. I need to recruit a President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. I’m clueless as to how large my board needs to be. Although I can’t pay people yet as I’m clueless about how to set up a board, let alone a non-profit and need help from someone experienced. I need to write the bylaws. I’m reading about the non-profit guidebook containing a legal basics section, board affairs section, directory section, committees’ section, programs section, background. My first goal is to buy out my own house and make me the legal owner. I also have to buy other properties in the Bay Area and collect applications from people who need help escaping abusive families. I’d also establish a domestic violence/Munchausen by Proxy survivor hotline. That’s all the ideas I have for now, otherwise I’m stumped.
I know I haven’t updated my blog in forever seeing as statistics took over my life last fall, and again this fall. I’m working on my ideas as much as I can this summer, as I’m taking summer quarter off. Chapter 3: Developing Your Initial Budget
A budget is a list of estimated income, in grants, contributions, office furniture, and start-up expenses. Estimated expenses include what to expect on day-to-day expenses like computers, office furniture, and start-up spending. Budgets require a strategy, and Microsoft Excel helps with creating that strategy because it is a worksheet with a series of rows as well as columns that require the user to enter formulas and figures.
The budget tells the truth about how much money the nonprofit organization has. To begin financial plans, the founder must know how much individual programs will cost the organization. How much of the budget is dedicated to these programs? Budgets are not made by guesswork but by fact. Separate estimates help plan ahead for planned program areas. Organizations you could get grants from require knowing how expenses divide between programs and administration, The column you set aside that you have to label “Administration” is what tells the reader where the income and expenses is not directly tied to a specific program go.
There is the danger of grantors turning down your funding requests due to spending too much money on administration. Papa Johns is a fund raising idea that my elementary school used. Every nonprofit survives off of donations, and funders need those donations to go towards specific programs. I’d like to find both talkative partners and silent partners in this Munchausen by Proxy or Factitious disorder imposed on another nonprofit, to be my advisors. Speaking of which, I could use advisors with a background in medicine. Your budget set up in a spreadsheet ought to keep track of expenses like office space and help. You have to keep program funds separate from administration funds.
Restricted income is a category in the non-profit industry and a fact about the nonprofit industry is that grantors who have the money you need, can feel that you are spending too much on nonprofit administration, and not spending it on worthwhile programs. When you’ve worked out a budget, and you ask for specific donations for a specific program, the donations must be isolated to that specific program. Income in a non-profit setting comes from membership fees, individual contributions, grants, and dedicated events. Like my martial arts fundraising event idea, my dry club is another idea, where purchase of more than one type of nonalcoholic beverages, can help bring in money to the non-profit I want to run.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2018 or TCJA could have large-scale effects on charitable giving. This act will make Americans less likely to do tax deductible donations to nonprofits (Pakroo 2019). Unrestricted income needs to go to the non-profit administration branch while actual restrictive income goes towards what the grantor wants. You need a great reason to believe that all initial budget income is unrestricted until proven or told otherwise. Budgets need to reflect strategic plans, and keep track of programs created, because the business plan needs to have programs provided outlined. I need to research the competition out there also.
Capital assets are in the budget and are defined or highlighted, as items that have a useful life of more than one year. These items include purchases such as computers, vehicles, and furnishings for the office. NAMI had a couch, and a coffee table right by the resource binders. Capital expenses have their costs deducted when a certain number of years have gone. In the book on page 55, estimates for annual capital expenses involve camping equipment, computer equipment, and telephones, as well as office furniture. This company is called Wild Horizons, the capital expense subtotal is what should be added in the spreadsheet.
Start-up costs are all about including expenses for things you’ll need to buy, things to buy that get your nonprofit up and running. These are things like printing, brochures I will design myself, website creation telephone set up, and not limited to state fees for incorporation. Expenses should not exceed income in your calculations. When you explain the budget in a budget narrative about how you use your money, you need to leave notes about the line items, and donations of goods and services must also be included in the finished budget. Unrestricted income makes up deficits (Pakroo 2019). Estimated expenses has three categories anyway, 1) Day-to-day expenses, 2) capital expenses and 3) start-up expenses. I need to take coursework about nonprofits to learn more.
Reading Chapter 2 in Starting and Building a Nonprofit, I have seen that I need to build a strategic plan. I have a business plan, but I need to modify it or write the entire strategic plan which is the point of this blog post. This is the plan on how I can structure my non-profit organization. Planned activities of my nonprofit involve setting up a shelter to meet the needs of chronically ill people. It also is part of hotline headquarters. We can rent out meeting space to organizations that need meeting space as a way of bringing in extra income. My dry club idea, Trocadero Transfer, involves a neurodivergent friendly club space where people are not obligated to drink alcohol. This is a fundraising branch for all my nonprofits. I need help with all of the above, I can’t do it all by myself. I keep assuming I can but hell when you take the bus you are asking for help from the driver.
I need to find other board members first of all, requiring at least an associate degree to be one. My organization isn’t exactly filled with people yet as I have but one member, me. I need to recruit others in San Jose to be a part of my board. My fundraising idea is simple, a martial art based fundraiser to bring in money from rich men who think a 4’10 woman cannot knock them off balance with her Chi. I want to test some assumptions and theories I have about my capabilities in the martial arts I do know, which is 2 years of Tae kwon do, and 6 years of kenpo at United Studios of Self-Defense. One of my nonprofit’s goals is to help people escape their Munchausen by Proxy families or their medically neglectful parents. I want to help others find their way on SSI or off SSI into real money.
Our families teach us that because we have a disability, we are good for nothing or anybody. Our society goes so far as to teach us the same. My organization needs to grow at this point, I need to ask for volunteers since I can’t pay a salary worth a damn. A strategic plan involves a mission statement, an outline of goals and objectives, and activities, an assessment of current resources (yeah, none for now), and a strategic analysis. My big picture needs input from other Munchausen by Proxy and medical neglect survivors. I don’t have defined roles for anybody at this stage.
I think however, I want to establish branches of my nonprofit in San Jose, Santa Cruz, San Diego, and Los Angeles. My group is dedicated to helping people escape toxic situations or avoid toxic parents in general. I can see myself using Zoom to have meetings. I suppose if I was using pg. 43 as an example, I would be an organization providing a shelter, meeting space, and hotline. I would develop a support network for other Munchausen by Proxy survivors. I would create a community for those of us who lack support systems in general. My objective is to help other people trapped financially or at their parent’s home to escape their situations. Goals, encourage people who have survived to make their own source of income and escape their families’ web. Objectives include staffing a hotline where people can vent their frustrations with their narcissist, sociopath, and psychopath. Activities, meetings, escape plans, establishing support networks. I have zilch resources fyi.
I also have nada in the way of people resources. A SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are as follows, strengths, I stand alone, also a weakness, as I need to start finding people. I’d pay every volunteer too. Opportunities to recruit people none, because I need to go to city council meetings. Threats, my family coming back and getting in my way. This is a threat we have to put on ignore though. Big nonprofit weakness of mine is thinking I stand on my own two feet. I need to start finding people who can help me. Period. This cannot be put off anymore. So, I have to find ways of volunteering my time at other organizations.
Starting and Building a Non Profit a Practical Guide
Chapter 1
I have named my non-profit, We Help. It is part command center, part shelter for chronically ill people trying to escape their abusive families. We Help is a tentative name, but I could use a better name, maybe. I haven’t given it much thought yet because I, as of now, have limited income. My financial situation is what it is. But that may change soon because I’ve found jobs. I barely have a logo, but I have one stashed away on my USB drive I designed myself.
I found a WeHelpfirst.org but that deals more with the homeless. There are limited to no non- profits dealing with helping chronically ill people or otherwise, helping them escape Munchausen by Proxy families. My idea is fairly unique. Fictitious business name, FBN is not necessary, maybe, I’m not sure about that either. Domain name ideas are not necessary yet either, since I have limited finances, limited means and do not have income to speak of which, will soon change as I have been making efforts to find jobs. Business names are everything. I have to check my name against databases in other states according to my Nolo book.
Incorporation is necessary in my case, due to how I want to spread this non-profit to every state. There is no such thing as an umbrella group because I’m not sure there is one at all. We Help will help those with have chronic illness or not, escape their abusive families. We need to be a non-profit with more than minimal assets since the goal is to help people escape their abusive families. Nolo suggests that incorporation is necessary to teach the public that we mean business, we are serious. This organization knows it has to buy some property or have other people buy property. I know that I need to keep track of donations, bylaws, keep minutes of board meetings, file annual reports, and tax returns as part of the duties of a non-profit President.
Taxes are only done if we have taxable income, which we will have. I want to have a dry club that is a non-profit donation earning type of business. Any fiscal sponsor is a charitable donation to the organization. Boy, I need a lawyer. If you make less than $1,000 you do not need to file the IRS form 990-T to report and pay income tax. Hell, I don’t even know if I can have voting members. I really need to talk to my SCORE mentor.
Starting and Building a Nonprofit: A practical Guide
Blog summaries chapter by chapter
Your Nonprofit Start-up Companion
A nonprofit is defined in Starting and Building A NonProfit, A Practical Guide by Peri H. Pakroo J.D. as being mission driven by the groups’ major aspiration or goal. A group of people keeping a park litter free, can call itself a nonprofit. Also, a group selling candy bars to fund children’s soccer trips in the state can also be called a nonprofit. My vision for my nonprofit is a group dedicated to providing support services for survivors of Munchausen by Proxy. We’d help children escape abusive families. We’d also help dependent adults get jobs to fund their lives away from their families. I need to escape my family financially, right? It has to happen this year. You have to realize that I have no idea what I’m doing here, and I want to file articles of incorporation with no money. This paperwork has to be filed with the secretary of state office given I find a minute to do this when I either have money or a partner who has been a Munchausen by Proxy survivor. The business structure needs to be put together in a way that limits owner’s personal liability. Taxation will be required as nonprofits are separate tax entities having more favorable tax rules than for profit corporations. Nonprofits serve the public interest, which includes the stipulation that they have to govern themselves according to specific rules. I need to set up a board of trustees or board of directors made entirely of Munchausen by Proxy professionals as well as survivors. We’d use Zoom for conferences and be a work from home scenario but eventually we need to plan for in person meetings.
On pg. 4 this book gets into alternatives to nonprofits. This business would not work as a for-profit, only because we use my dry club, the Trocadero Transfer to set up a fundraising branch of my organization. A low profit limited liability company or L3C is similar to a nonprofit. Its goal is to benefit the public in some way, making profit a secondary goal. This structure may serve my nonprofit social media website idea. Benefit corporations known as Certified B Corps is a state sponsored legal structure that is assessed to meet specific qualifications about a corporation needing to have a necessary impact on society. It is held accountable through what is called a fiduciary duty to both corporate shareholders and workers. Corporations like these have to file annual progress reports held to a third-party standard. A social purpose corporation is available in the State of California as a means of filing the status. An SPC organization is not necessarily bound by the same rules as a Certified B Corps only because it is granted more flexibility with funding requirements.
As it stands right now, I need a rotating executive director who has survived Munchausen by Proxy, and three trustees. I’m clueless as to how to arrange either situation. I have to file papers one day but with what income? So I need to find a loaded business partner. Nonprofits are tax exempt organizations, most of them, but I’m fuzzy as to the rules still because I’ve only read one book. Is there a class? I can’t afford those either. Okay, so the federal tax code classes nonprofits a certain way. The 501c (4) or 501c (6). I have no idea how properties people live in for free as a safe house to get away from their families will be taxed or classed or even if my nonprofit can stay a nonprofit. My nonprofit benefits people who want to escape their abusive families. I need to read How to Form A Nonprofit Corporation by Anthony Mancuso. This book covers the need to file a 501c (3) status. On this computer, 501 © is what comes out when I try to copy the book as a citation of sorts. So I am writing it 501c(3).
Businesses succeed at making money, which is what determines if society says they are successful. A nonprofit is judged on how it is fulfilling its mission. Nonprofits need donations to survive. I envision needing more than one director on a rotating basis who are mental health professionals that have survived Munchausen by Proxy or who are involved with people who have. I clearly need to visit a lawyer to ask questions about how to run a nonprofit as there are things I have no idea how to do. Volunteers do simple work for nonprofits, but I have an interesting plan to make sure all volunteers get paid a stipend. While fundraising is considered a difficult and time consuming situation by the author Peri H. Pakroo, J.D., I have some ideas. My martial arts fundraiser as I can push people twice my size with my Chi for one. I need to prove things to myself, do experiments and provide evidence for my assumptions. As it is right now, I feel too run down to go to a martial arts class, as I have to have Gatorade or juice with me for lows. Right now I can’t have citric acid. I check labels carefully. Bread has vinegar. Yes, hiatal hernias are so much fun, excuse my sarcasm. I’m having loads of fun with acid reflux. Yes, there are other Nolo press books I can find on Amazon. I bought the book I’m citing for $4. Yes, I know how to get good deals.
Well, it failed because I didn’t have enough clients. I had one person I could have mentored but she wasn’t motivated enough because in order for a mentor relationship to work, one must be motivated. Sometimes people are not motivated to do the work. My medication helps a lot. I’ve never been totally short on motivation even when I was exposed to secondhand marijuana smoke. I mean I used to be able to tolerate chocolate but right now I can’t touch it. I have a hiatal hernia and there is a list of acid reflux triggering foods. The good news is that I have achieved my diabetes management goals. I have succeeded but I’m wondering if it will last and if I can maintain it for a week.
If that whole keep it up thing happens, I’m going to coast on that for a while as my A1c is due. I’m a type 1 diabetic for reference’s sake. I’m a brittle actually. It means that slight things trigger changes in my blood glucose. Frustration is running a bit high for me right now in terms of my finances, seeing as I don’t have a real source of extra income besides SSI. This is so frustrating but I’m trying not to lose sleep over it. I occasionally send out a lot of Upwork applications. I also hit up Indeed really hard although I don’t trust Monster. LinkedIn is another one I use to network with Angel Investors who should start coming out of the woodwork to fund my business ideas.
Type 1 diabetes is manageable, very, but not impossible to deal with. I have managed to successfully bring my average down to where it is now, which is 134 7 days. I’ve worked a whole lifetime for this day. I have worked very hard to get these results. I mean I had some highs last night given that my set failed on me, but I changed it just now. I’m good at infusion but some people can’t take it. Some people can’t hack infusion at all because it is very technical, and the needle is large. The needle can freak people out on occasion. I wish I could throw myself a huge house party, but I don’t have the energy. I should try to given that I just hit major diabetes management milestones, although, like I said, I am in reclusive mode which means I don’t want to talk to Tech support either. I should be calling them in order to ask for how to connect my CGM to my pump. I also have to change my CareLink password and set up CareLink the website on this computer because Windows 10 can take it.
This laptop is working nicely. I’m ready to work as a diabetes mentor considering I wanted to start it as a business originally. I want to become a life coach in business for myself which means I can take on clients I choose to take on. Training as a diabetes mentor would offset that path. Anyway, yes, I’m looking forward to talking to people at this company. My a1c is perfect right now, making me feel better even if I was awake from 1:00 a.m.- 4:00 a.m. this morning. I went and fell asleep when my blood sugar came down. I’m consciously working on this stuff since I have mental health situations in addition to type 1 diabetes. It was plenty scary not being on meds from age 1-20, not knowing what relaxation felt like, let alone actual sleep until I took Zyprexa for the first time. But that medication did cause me weight gain, which is something to look out for. Martial arts can burn 321 calories for one hour of exercise. I need to work on my weight right now anyway.
Max Bounty is a type of affiliate program that I haven’t used much out of sheer ignorance. In one Google search, I have found that Max Bounty is defined through acceleration partners as a “performance-based cost per action (CPA) network that specializes in maximizing the return-on-ad spending (ROAS), for both advertisers and affiliates. We accomplish this by partnering brands with a global network of online specialists who can help them increase their awareness, sales, and leads” (https://www.accelerationpartners.com/resources/publisher-spotlight-maxbounty/#:~:text=MaxBounty%20is%20a%20performance%2Dbased,awareness%2C%20sales%2C%20and%20leads). Max Bounty works with advertisers to generate leads. Eventually I have to put a link to their affiliates in this blog, sorry, it must be done. According to the Max Bounty FAQ, an advertiser paying for every surfer seeing their advertising, is known as CPM. The definition is not necessarily something making sense when I read it as a copywriter, but the blogger does get paid when the reader takes action by clicking and filling out a web form to get a product. (https://affiliates.maxbounty.com/faq)
Max Bounty’s pay out is at $100 dollars. They pay using Check, Intercash, eCheck, ACH, and Wire. Max Bounty is providing a tracking system to keep track of advertising clicks. As a performance based affiliate network, Max Bounty’s network is made up of 20,000 vetted affiliates. They have a cost-per-action pricing model, featuring over 200 advertisers on the network itself. (https://www.businessofapps.com/affiliate/maxbounty/). There is a $1,000 bonus if affiliates earn $1,000 per month in their first three months online via the network. Having a cost-per-action going means advertiers pay for more leads and sales. You leave the link copy on your website in an organic manner, rather like I’m leaving the citation links now. As a lead company in the industry, Max Bounty could make me extra income give or take. Yes, early on I tried to leave links but nobody bit. Maybe they sense it is advertising and don’t want to click. I want to experiment with Max Bounty this year.
Max Bounty is interesting in that they pay in the currency of the user’s country. EPC stands for earnings per click, and that is what gets the user paid because of affiliate referrals. Leads are generated through visits to a campaign page when the link is clicked on, and this is a very simple way to generate extra income online. Max Bounty tries to maintain an accurate way of paid clicks. Scrubbing a lead happens when an advertiser doesn’t pay for invalid or duplicate leads that are generated through the clicks. As a Max Bounty user, you are not allowed to rebroker Max Bounty campaigns to other affiliates or sell your account to someone else. You are also not allowed to contact affiliates. They actually have quality assurance per lead so you are likely to make money. I like what I’m reading about. I feel like calling my representative to say I want to take Max Bounty seriously this year. I found it in 2017-2018 while looking for ways of promoting my blog. I had a Clickbank account for the longest time but they tend to terminate your account if you do not make money. I have calculated the fact I need $10,000 a month or more to live in the Bay Area, pay my HOA fee, and also take care of my dental. Come to think of it, factoring in dental I’d have to say I need $12,000 a month. Let’s hope I don’t need too much dental work. I have all my teeth at forty-one, not to mention all my major organs. That’s lucky.
Besides some people talking me out of it, I’m going to try to enroll in Foothill College’s psych program because I can no longer get out of taking statistics. I need to take summer Quarter this year because I have taken two quarters off per the semester I had last year. That semester really took a lot out of me. In particular, my root canal on top of a root canal to fix my crown. Then the menorrhea from hell overtook me. So I was like, unable to think straight for awhile. Then it stopped since it was caused by my thyroid. Yes, hypothyroidism is so much fun (sarcasm).
Anyway, I just don’t have degrees I want. I want more than one AA, more than one Masters, and maybe more than one Bachelor’s too. I’m rethinking the Bachelor’s situation. I’ve discovered I’m not a conventional anthropologist or archaeologist since I salivate at Ancient Aliens theory all the time. I mean wow. I can’t ever go through conventional schooling. I am also contemplating a meteorology degree. Yes, an actual B.S. Hey. I just want a job to supplement my SSI income which I need.
I just bent a needle while changing my infusion set. I have pictures I hesitate to reveal. The thickness of the metal totally change too. I had to get another needle from my existing supplies since I survived and got the shipment. Making real money will be interesting. I’ve had income before and saved up back when I attempted to work for a year, while not 100% stable, mid-caffeine addiction. Mid-addiction in general.
My psych degree is going to be followed up by an AA from San Jose City College in drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Those with 22q can have addiction problems as well. This is something I have learned throughout my meanderings in the 22q community on Facebook. Many of us have concurrent addiction. Hey, why do I want to be an addiction counselor? Because of my family not wanting treatment for theirs, that’s why. I’ve come to the conclusion that they really want to avoid treatment and will never get help, so okay. I’m not going to bother with begging them anymore. But I hate feeling like I’m enabling people.
I’m just put in this position by my family when I’m forced to enable them or else. I’m done with the or else. I’m just done in general. I want to escape them financially and move to Santa Cruz, and then Los Angeles. I want to severe all ties and live under address protection. Yes, I have to fend off mom thinking she can just have my money. No babe, it is my money. No family is getting it. My half-sisters will get it, if anything. The rest of my family who never reads this blog, are not getting a dime. I’ve already made my decision. I’m not like Warren Buffett here. I’m not a cow you can just milk, eh? It is my money. Everybody who has ever believed any Munchhausen by Proxy lies is not getting a dime.
Iria Vasquez-Paez
3/29/22
Blog
Realistically I’m Still Low Income
Okay, I’m still low income for now only because that is the case. I worked on my copywriting business plan. I have no idea how they begin to cut you but they do when your account shows a certain amount of money. I’m not ready for this yet. But eventually I will be. They look for steady income. I’m working on my non profit job descriptions because I figured out that I need to have psychiatrists and other doctors on staff. People escaping Munchausen by Proxy family are a hot mess. They don’t know up from down or rightful diagnosis from lie. They are confused. I want to provide clarity and an application for disability should they need one. I’m a lucky person for having the resources I have but the stimulus checks were very helpful. I was told they do count so I spent a certain amount of it. I’m planning on starting internet businesses using Etsy but I’m not going to go all out. Etsy is a huge resource for supplies. In the interests of staying organized I have to get desk drawers for my stuff. I have the paperwork for a pension from the deceased since I need that and to stay covered by my insurance. This blog is a type of record as to how someone dirt poor got off the low income dole. It is part of my non profit only because I’m using it to solidify my ideas in my head. I’m trying to keep up with life without drinking a drop of coffee too. Coffee does not help my brain at all. Period. So I quit it.
My non profit is going to be carved into a warehouse somewhere in San Jose if I can find one that can be zoned into living situations. Next Door Solutions for domestic violence is another example of a domestic violence shelter I need to look at as a clone or something that has already been done. I visited a shelter for women way back when I was looking for alternative living situations just in case the condo mom and dad got didn’t work out. Now that my left knee is recovered as it gets, I’m going to be able to go to more places. Well, given my anxiety doesn’t take me out. Or my infusion set works when I go to wherever. I risk the darn thing going down every time I leave the house. That’s possible but I don’t want to live in fear of this. So off I go this Thursday to drop off my sharps since that needs to be done and otherwise I’m just feeling the clutter putting me on edge.
In order to pay all my medical bills and the HOA fee with leaving a few thousand left over to set up my businesses, I have to make $50,000 a month. $10,000 to start with, and hope nothing hospital worthy happens to me. I need to pay my own insurance for starters. I know what my expenses are but I have no idea how to make money although I know getting a job as a legal secretary would help me. I got a phone call from Robert Half Legal. They found my very old resume. I need to log into Robert Half Legal and start submitting but I plan on doing this tomorrow.
I’m thrilled I got a phone call at all but I hear they have hybrid options in terms of worksite. I’m going to wait until Tuesday to hear what they have. I think I’m a good fit for whatever it is they have in mind for me. I have got to get a job to finance my other businesses. I have read recently that there is a brain drain of sorts as people leave California for states with a cheaper cost of living. There is a vacuum because companies have had to deal with the Great Resignation. This is something I need to take advantage of big time. I can get and keep a job while taking my medication to stay stable.
I also have other avenues to resort to like publishing a book. I would get sold regular income from that, in terms of royalties but they still say that writing does not make any money. Or so I was told in creative writing school. This blog could make me $1,000 a month, along with Max Bounty which I need to log into. This blog is funny in a certain way, because when I don’t look at it, I get more readership.
I’m trying to figure out ways of paying my credit card bill through becoming a conversational English tutor. Yes, that is one way to make money along with Uedify, a website. I can also make art and I need a job to support my art habit. I want to start painting to earn a living through art sales. My research project file has grown to be quite long. I need to get real Word for this el Capitan-using computer that I upgraded myself.
I managed to get the operating system up and running by myself without outside help or interference. I did use some tech support help but in the end, this computer will last me three years longer than the other one. The one my parents gave me is old, almost to the point of being useless. I keep it off. This one can handle 10.11 El Capitan. I want to set up Medtronic to upload my insulin pump readings in a certain way.
I’m doing well with the insulin pump upgrade I’m using a 770G now, which not surprisingly, has many similar systems to the 630G. I need to go to the post office to drop off the old pump. That has to be sent back soon enough. Excuse me post office. I’m going to have to darken your door again. Yes, going out with schizoaffective is always so much fun. I’m glad I’m treated now give or take. Although by now I seriously want to work at an actual place. The pandemic has been a wild, crazy time and cases are way down. I’m wondering if we will eventually beat this thing. We should make the beginning and end of the pandemic a holiday. It should be a massive holiday. If there ever is an end to the pandemic since they always come to an end eventually.
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