Crazy, I had a hacker break into my bank account today.
Good news is when he saw how little there was in there, he stopped hacking and started a GO FUND ME.
Kidding, not kidding.
One bread winner, a large family before COVID, and was living Friday paycheck to Friday Paycheck.
Now post COVID and in full inflation mode, we are lucky if we can make it ’til Tuesday after the bills get paid. IF they are even paid at all.
Some folks online trying to get business to get a vacation home, or a new car, or whatever.
I am on here trying to save our home, to get gas to drive to work, and buy some groceries.
I know I am not the best salesmen- but I also don’t understand WHY FOLKS don’t support any of my businesses. I have 10 ways in my link in bio to help people with.
And when I am vulnerable and share this pain, I get people who reach out to me acting interested and caring, and I let them get close and I get vulnerable, and when my heart is extended, instead the tables quickly get turned and they are pitching their stuff promising me that they have the solution. And in the past I would believe them and next thing I know I was ordering Amway or Melaleuca or It works Weight Loss Coffee. And know what? It doesn’t work.
And it’s not like I don’t work HARD at building an online biz.
I got a million hits on Alignable on my posts, I got 25,000 views. And not one customer.
I don’t get it, but when you are getting big numbers, and you are showing up for years, and you are working 6 days a week in pain 24 /7 from standing as a pharmacist, AND NO ONE supports your home based business, you feel like you are cast aside from this world and stepped on, and you wonder why even bother.
If that is the message you want me to learn here, I get it. Now what do you want me to do?
I’d sell a kidney if someone would take it at this point. I currently work for 4 different pharmacies, and am working 29 of the next 31 days to try and dig myself out. Want me to work overnights too? I already am up doing my share of chores until midnight and my wife does chores all day and works non stop and we have 5 kids to drive around BUT people instead of CARING and showing COMPASSION will say, “Why can’t your wife work?” – um, she does. Why can’t she go back to school and be a nurse? IF we don’t have money for groceries, how are we going to pay for a degree.
I am not asking for your suggestions. I spent 10 years researching products I think make sense and that is what I am asking you to buy. You don’t have to buy them. BUT don’t refuse to look at my stuff, and then pretend to be nice and then pitch your stuff, or use my vulnerability to say, “Ha! I told you NOT to go and buy that house!” or whatever. I know my mistakes, thank you. I beat myself up all day long and am stressed out and can’t figure it out. But if you want to gloat about that, go for it.
It is really embarrassing and humiliating to be one of the working poor. The homeless have the hope of finding a home, the unemployed have the hope of getting a job. When you have a job and you work every possible second and you haven’t had a vacation in 7 years and you are exhausted and you simply want to market some products so you can maybe cut back and work from home, what else can you do?
Again, I have a side business. I don’t need YOUR side business. And maybe that is the problem. All of us have a side business but there is no one left to be our customer.
It is really really hard to go on when you are a licensed health care professional and you have NOTHING to show for it. No retirement, no life insurance, nothing to leave your family.
I have a talent to write, a love to write, but to not make a dime from my talent stings even more.
I don’t know if I will stay on this blog. It will be due autorenewal for the 3rd or 4th time in March and that’s another $200 – $300 and the only reason I renew is I know the year I don’t will be the one I strike it rich. I don’t think anyone really gives two flips about anyone’s story these days. I tried. I poured out content for 10 years on FB, and on here, I wrote hundreds of blog posts, and made 200 videos on TikTok and get 400-500 views each time- and it’s all a TEASE because no one buys.
Would ordering a $25 debit card that doubles your buying power kill you? Would letting me save you on your health insurance or bills or some service be that bad?
Why is this world of business so cold and cruel?
Why can you pour out content every day, you are exhausted yet you continually follow up and post and invite people AND NO RESULTS ?
IT’s such a cruel fate. To get so close to success is a TEASE and it’s a mirage, and it just evaporates and everyone else seems to be able to drink of this success of online marketing but me.
And my family is the one that suffers.
All I wanted to do is help people. All I wanted to do is to leave pharmacy because my legs burn all day long and I can only keep a job for so long.
I gave it my all on here. And no one cares enough to even order a lousy card or anything else I offered.
Words cannot convey the rejection and the pain. And knowing you give your all and that isn’t enough any more.
All I know was there was a time when people really cared about what others go through. And I know the pain others feel and the stress others feel – and that is what hurts the most. I have ways to HELP and NO ONE WANTS MY HELP.
That is what really kills the will and reason to go on from a pharmacist of 20 years. That is all we know to make solid recommendations and for people to help.
One last try here- would you at least look through my links and maybe share with someone who can use help? Because I don’t know how else to ask anymore.
https://mikethepharmacistllc.wegotfriends.com/lib
MikethePharmacist.