A Run For My Money

I keep trying to tell my best friend that there's no such thing as easy money. It's true. I have a couple of at home businesses and while I make a fair days 'wage' and it's fantastic working for myself from home, it's sure not easy. She flits from thing to thing in an effort to make money 'easy'. When you do that you are sure to fall for all types of scams. She came close to falling for one late last year when she got a 'check' in the mail. A cashier's check. Supposedly a messed up order and the company was willing to 'make amends' by graciously letting her cash the check and just send them back the 'cost' of the supposed items (that never existed in the first place). Of course the check was no good. That's the typical cashier's check scam, although admittedly sending the check with no previous converstation, or reason is an unusual twist. I told her it wasn't 'right'. And we were talking a very large sum of money as well. Thankfully her bank was smart and didn't let her cash the check until it cleared, which of course it didn't. The thing is, if she had happened to have that kind of money in her account, the bank WOULD have let her, and then when the check didn't clear she would have been responsible for not only the stupid bounced check charge, but the entire amount she had withdrawn against it. OUCH.

That's certainly only one of the bigger examples. She tries to do a lot of the things we do here on our ranch to earn income too. She sees it is possible... she sees the work too, but when it comes to wanting to do the actual work she just can't seem to do it. Well it's no wonder that most of the 'ventures' fail. You have to work hard. Certainly my businesses give me a run for my money every day, but that's why they call it 'work' and not vacation. The dream of working for yourself is a common one, but you have to realize it's still WORK. And you have to be able to make yourself do it, even when you don't feel like it. When you work for yourself you're the foreman, the boss, and the employee all rolled up into one tired package at the end of the day--it's worth it, if you have the stamina.