Thinking Cap On

When you consider for the last two or three years that I’ve only worked a handful of hours a week and even when done over ten it’s hardly been strenuous labour then the logical conclusion is that if I work more hours then surely I must be able to make more money. Everyone has told me, “work! don’t play!!” that I “haven’t got time for girls” or “what you mean going on holiday again?” and it does sink in but I spent years building a business in my backroom wondering how on earth I will change my life and get a house and a girl so why shouldn’t I enjoy the relative good and easy times?

Going back to the fact I didn’t work much instead making the small amount work for me and now that I am building and adding to my current network, putting the hours in, I feel I can reach out to you all once again and prescribe a little medication of my own. Do you recall Bonanza? I almost do, I’m 31, point being I’m trying to get you to rewind to those dodgy spaghetti westerns and gritty Eastwood yeehaas, wasn’t there always a man riding around with coloured water proclaiming it the next magical procurement to get your end up and away?

Well here I am again. And I’m riding with tonto, well not exactly, he’s called Boris Johnson. Read here. I stopped writing this after the second paragraph, went to read the news and the Mayor of London appeared - no doubt needing to keep Oxford St. Regent St. and various other alleys and namesakes in the money at the centre of the capital while the financial institutions implode and it got me thinking that there was nothing wrong with what I was about to write as hes right too, as am I so I came back. So too the yank tourists with their conversion rate $$$.

In tandem with my view, Boris’s view and the other bright spark Nouriel Roubini we together believe that the world goes on and that idiots will always fall and try to take us all down with them. Nouriel isn’t exactly the greatest modern day Nostradamus as I can tell you that I too was harping on about the current debt crisis for years, I cleared mine, also as I watched people get mortgages almost six times their salary, the cost of everything go up yet wages stay the same, I was more well off before Labour came to power, wasn’t we all?

So every government and company can listen to Mr Roubini now, just a pity our own government and businesses didn’t listen to the thirty million who said “this can’t possibly continue, our children can’t buy an house and wages aren’t going up and you’re stuffing everyone into education or on benefits proclaiming they can’t walk or work…” yes they said it for years but no one listened because why should they, everyone was enjoying the free money. Roubini is just the clever one as he shouted the loudest and will write a book while all of us write a blog saying we said it too… well we did so ner. I’ll buy the book, hurrah.

Did I get carried away? Sorry. I do sometimes. So here I am, my mate Nouriel, Boris and me, we’re down the boozer discussing economics and we decided that banks got stupid, businesses got too big and government is sqaundering our money trying to stop what will eventually bring down government until the point where they realise they have to just let the bad debt find its little old way home.

Spending our way out of recession, that’s socialists for you, if it works fair enough I’m a free agent, I can pay tax in any country so you get on with it Mr Brown, you’re not taking me with you. You’re mucking up my pension but that’s another complaint for another decade. What do we all have in common, well banks may go bust and rightly so, they have been over charging me and others for years so **** ‘em. They won’t give me a mortgage so I can buy a second house in Romania pffffff.

Big business can go bust too, in the end everyone still needs services and labour (not the political party, they can shove their ideals up their arse) and whether it starts with Joe Bloggs of 92 Gilbert St. washing next door’s windows for a quid a week, then business will be backinbusiness.co.uk (LEEOWEN) and will grow once again, Boris is right, while the socialists gain a marching order on some IMF backed marching powder capitalism won’t be disappearing any time soon.

It’s in the very fabric of our society although the name and concept, rules and views may change slightly, people still need bread and butter, winter requires a coat and a condom and the sun needs a new bikini and a pair of flip flops so back to Joe Bloggs, the one good thing about my business is the revolving door of domains, I’m in heaven in a recession – supposedly. As many businesses go bust, their domains come up for grabs and I am up to grab them for resale.

As recession goes on and as the skies begin to brighten, Joe Bloggs cleans two streets and all the home’s windows and employs some staff and calls his business LakelandWindows.co.uk (LEEOWEN) and I sell it to him for £50, with any luck Microsoft goes bust and I’ll pick up Windows.co.uk and Joe will come and see me when he’s clearning the whole country’s windows and buy it off me for £500k.

Ultimately as Boris says, life goes on and it isn’t the end of the world. It may feel like it but business models have to change to reflect the climate, for a few years I’ve sold on two forums, now I sell on two forums and to more end users, I had to change again and add catching domains for a fee and soon, this week, I will add another service to try and rake in more money to keep Squillions.com head above the rising water, that’s right I’m not escaping but like Noah I’m building an ark to save my little part of the world. ‘ark at me.

If you want your world to end, go grow tats in your back garden if it makes you happy, my Nan and Grandad did but for different reasons, got grandad out of the house, gave Nan peace and she was happy. If your world is ending and you’re miserable read the news, especially this on the Maya, they only write it to sell trees while preaching about saving the world and being eco friendly while chopping down trees, selling more papers, keeping the journos in a job, capitalists eh? Bet they won’t go out of business in a recession! Too much doom and gloom to be read for 35p a rag.

Getting carried away, point is business is still business, domains will still be caught and sold, affiliate marketing will still see profit and hundreds of thousands if not millions of presents exchanged again this festive period aka CHRISTMAS, people have money to spend and if they don’t they cut back and find it again to spend, people will lose jobs but in the end this wonderful socialist government WILL GIVE THEM MONEY TO SPEND, hurrah, socialist capitalists, they confuse everyone to buggery, oh I say, nayyy, oooooo (Frankie Howard lives on.)

It’s 5am again and I have a meeting with a future business partner at 10.30am so I really must dash, however I’ll be working on keeping the money rolling in as there’s plenty still out there so if you’re a business looking to put your money somewhere safe, then give it to me in exchange for an asset or two, I’m still wheeling and dealing. Domains will be bought and sold and Scrooge will buy a turkey this Christmas as always, although maybe not from Iceland. Night night.

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