Get yourself a magic 8-ball - it'll change your life:
But on a serious note - maybe it's your overall work ethic? I've watched you state some retarded shit and make no actual effort to change your situation. I've seen you complain on here about your life and that "one day" you'll start getting to work. Why are you browsing Facebook an Linkedin instead of working on your project? Are you looking for some external motivation or someone to come and give you a ton of money? Better yet are you hoping someone will give a shit about you?
There is a lesson in zen that a student can spend 20+ years in a cave meditating on desiring nothing and wanting nothing and attain a state of 'no desires' - but rarely can that student maintain that 'no desire and no want' state when they leave the cave and explore the rest of the world. <- There are several levels of meanings - but the first level is your environment and what you concentrate on. If you desire to HAVE wants and desires yet do nothing you will get no where. But even if you sit there wanting nothing in your small shit hole of a bedroom, as soon as you leave that bedroom you'll see the world and want new things. That's not necessarily bad - but if you sit there doing nothing but praying and wishing, you won't get far.
What's worse for you is you want to be "someone" that you literally cannot be. You didn't go to those colleges, so you'll never get there. At most you might be able to make that level of money, but not with your current mentality - cause in this internet marketing game, it's only you battling yourself. You get out of it as much as you put in - if you generate money, you'll have to keep generating that money, cause you don't have a corporation giving you paychecks for walking in the door. If you create a company or a business you'll have to maintain that business. You literally chose the hardest path on the road - but that same path if you grind at it for weeks, months, and years, you MAY one day attain a level those Facebook buddies of yours will never be able to obtain as they brown nose their boss for a higher promotion or a raise - you'll be the boss (probably not you though - not with your thinking).
You are constantly looking at other people's lives and wondering why they live better lives then you - yet you aren't doing ANYTHING to grind or get money. I mean look at your fucking username - choosing that username means you KNOW no one is going to bother replying or taking you seriously - yet here you are registering fartyman all over the place.
And then the final nail in the coffin - you are in the newbie section giving people advice on a ton of shit you clearly have no idea about, yet you do no actual serious work except browse forums all day and whining. Doing a ton of research on your competitor doesn't equal putting in actual work in to get to your goals - do you even have any goals? How far has those last 9 months of whining gotten you?
I saw this thread:
Building an Online "Goo roo" REPUTATION in the region. - where you talk about wanting to be like me at some level. You want to be recognized for your work and skills and 'such' - what fucking work? what fucking skills? what fucking 'such'? Do you put in work like me? Are you willing to put in 20+ hours a day for 9 months on a project that could be a complete failure like me? If that one project fails do you move on to the next one without whining? What do you actually do to achieve or get to your "wishes/goals"? Cause I don't see it. I see a ton of whining threads about how you do no serious work, yet want rewards... And who the fuck am I for you to want to fucking emulate?
There is a reason the 99% - aren't in the 1%... In your case if you don't change your mentality, you simply aren't going to 'make it', whatever 'it' is to you.
This online hustle of ours isn't EASIER than corporate jobs, 9-5s, and other shit the other half lives, it's harder, more mentally challenging, more physically challenging - but the rewards are greater. So you have two choices, you can give up and go get a 9 to 5 flipping burgers joining me and the rest of the Burger King staff, or you can create a goal of what you want, then create a roadmap of how you are going to obtain it, then start working nonstop till you get to that goal and tell everyone to fuck off that's interfering with you getting to that goal. Me personally I'd rather be flipping these burgers and praying to my magic 8-ball.
"It may be that your purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others." - Krazman