As of January 1st 2010, I am quitting all my jobs. I will not be enrolled in school (because I can’t afford it) and I cannot handle all the excess work with broke ass pay. I’ve just released one of my new projects today as a test app, and all I can do is hope that it actually works because I spent all my free time developing it since a few months ago. For some unknown reason, I think it will just flop like the lotto did since my luck has been terrible lately… however, I still need to keep my head up because anything can happen right?

I’m going to write the PR for the new Peep Project tonight. Hopefully things will take a 180 degree turn soon because right now I’m living on edge and it does not feel good at all. The whole PayPal thing is probably the biggest disappointment I’ve suffered, its led me to working crazy long hours just to support their decision to close my account for 180 days.

So for the new Peep Lotto Advertiser Base, I’ve decided to take a different approach to fund it. It involves a lot of work but I’m willing to take on the challenge. At the moment, anything is better than working 3 jobs for essentially nothing. This new concept is super creative (or at least I think so) as well as unique. I have big goals and in order to achieve them, I have to do equivalent sized things. I’ve found my purpose in life, and that is to break records, build a positive name for myself and aid others to reaching their full potential through my Forward Foundation.

I’m actually excited for the new year and the new projects I’ve decided to take on! Current lotto advertisers will have full advertising benefits to the new comings. All in all, I will need everyone’s support and faith as I can only do so much by myself. You guys are going to be very surprised at how much of a turn around this is going to be!

I saw this little excerpt on askmen.com:
“You know what’s missing in the world today? Leaders who have had to fight their way to the top. No joking, look at the head of any business that’s running in today’s society, and I’ll show you a boss whose parents’ power and money kept him from ever learning things the hard way”.

Gives you something to think about.

Sorry for the rather late update but I’ve been working like crazy the last couple of days, it has led me to fall sleep as soon as I get home. Today is no different, I will be going to work again in about a half hour so I’ll make this quick. There’s a lot of talk whether I will continue the project after Christmas and the definite answer is yes. There will be another draw on Easter and then next Christmas. I’m hoping that the time in between the draws after this first one will be enough to populate the web site. As soon as I can score a better job I will start funding the promotions to web site again.

UPDATE: On the negative side of things… I received an email from PayPal saying my account is limited, high risk and I will not be able to reinstate my account. They provided no definite reason which is annoying as I haven’t made a single withdrawal and all the money was from advertisers + sponsors since opening day. I’m actually stressed as all hell right now because I am to payout the winner in 12 days and I have no access to the funds until 180 days have passed by. This does not mean that there will not be a winner; either way I will pay out the winner, this just means the winning payout is going to come from my personal funds. Remember how I complained about unexpected expenses? Well I just proved my point to you. If this is really what is going to happen, I’m literally going to be broke… What a great way to spend Christmas and the New Year…

If there are any new advertisers, please contact me personally to advertise (don’t use the PayPal form on the sign up page).

Anyways, I have to go, I will update this post tonight when I get back.

Yesterday I had a new advertiser sign up! First one in 2 weeks and I just want to say thanks to buildingbodies.ca for having faith in the project. His tweet will be going out at 1800 followers. In the meantime, check out his site if you are looking for professional personal training or general advise on fitness.

An interesting tweet went out today from keep-it-on.com. Apparently they pay you a little bit of money to use your CPU cycles if you are one of those people who leave your computer on all the time. I thought it was rather interesting and unique, don’t hesitate to check it out.

This is a rather random post and fairly irrelevant to the site however, something I saw today that kinda got me thinking.

I don’t know about you, but in my opinion this statement “Living an honest life is a luxury” can indeed be true to a certain extent. With all the holiday pressure in gift exchanging and given the economic situation still being at an unstable position, it most definitely has an impact on people who are living paycheck to paycheck. Heck, I can hardly budget anything into my income and I work 3 jobs (that pay nothing).

Today I saw a man get chased down by mall security guards because he ran out of a Safeway with a bag full of food (I saw a baguette and a bag of chips sticking out). Judging by his clothing and unshaven facial hair, I think its safe to assume that he is homeless and was trying to flee with the bag of food he stole. A question that popped into my head at the time was: If he didn’t steal the food, would he starve? Since the weather is -25, the homeless shelter is operating at above capacity. The homeless man ended up hopping onto a c-train and managed to escape the guards; it was literally luck that the train was there and about to leave. At that very moment, I couldn’t comprehend whether what was going on was right or wrong.

This little story kinda reminds me when I was just a little boy and I used to steal from the Woolco across the street. My mom could barely afford to put afford food on the table (let alone pay rent) which led us to poverty living, I never got presents as a kid, if I wanted something I would have to shoplift to get it. Being a kid and exposed to materialistic modern day society, I forced myself to believe that what I was doing was right because I was just trying to keep up with everyone else who had a “normal” lifestyle. To this date, I regret almost everything I did as a kid… I was definitely far from a little angel (even though I looked like one ).

But ultimately, would I have turned out better if I never experienced these hardships? Look at me today, I’m an entirely different person, as a matter of fact, I’m essentially the total opposite of what I was “suppose” to turn out to be.

All in all, I thought I would give you something to think about… the world works in strange ways…

Your thoughts?