This post is spawned out of a sudden flurry of requests for my assistance with certain things, and remarks made about my acquiring of wealth.
This business is shit. You may think that the more you have, the more you can make, the better it is. It's not.
It's shit.
If you have a single Pirate Draik Egg to sell, you're fucking golden. Sell that thing, be on your way, happy and carefree.
If you have the entire existence of Neopets on your shoulders, it sucks. It makes you want to cry, and nap excessively.
Elsewhere, I'm currently being voted upon for Most Inspirational. I'm like the Bill Gates of the black market right now. I make money, I give away stuff constantly, I donate, I help out. This wouldn't suck, if it was on any sort of manageable scale.
Imagine having six bosses, all with their different agendas for you, giving you their lists of things to do every day, making you bend over backwards for them. Imagine you had six employees, good, hardworking people that you have to care for and make sure they're getting everything they need. Imagine you were a telemarketer and a customer service rep on the phone, not sheltered by a wall of automated phone responses. Imagine you had enough spreadsheets to break Excel, a two terrabyte harddrive of unorganized notepad files, and one very angry admistrative assistant breathing down your neck that you forgot to remove that two mil item off your sheet when you moved it from one account to another.
Imagine you are the most unappreciated human being on earth, spreading yourself so thin that you feel like there's nothing left of you.
That is what it's like to be me.
Sure, the money's good, I can afford to live where I want, travel where I want, buy what I want. I go from one little knick knack obsession to another. But there's not really much time to do anything but work. I haven't played more then two hours of gaming in any given week. If I leave the house, I come back to a barrage of messages, angry or impatient people. I actually have a fear of going to the movies, because shit always happens when I'm at the movies. Like the forum being taken over and deleted through my account and I'm stuck in a movie so I can't defend myself.
People hack me, people attack me, people get me frozen, people try to get me found. People berate me, people scam me, people use me, people leave me.
I am great at what I do. I can make anyone money, whether it's a supplier, a site owner, someone that needs a helping hand. I've bought thousands of dollars in presents, plane tickets, hell, even cake. I can do anything and everything. And I do it.
Mama Tiger
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