Is anyone else living on the seat of their pants?
 

How many other people on here are barely scraping by?

Tomorrow my car insurance payment comes out for $84 Canadian, and I have $1, but I have like 3 different possible online incomes that MIGHT come in tomorrow. I had to spend my last $30 tonight getting drunk and listening to Canadians say the most insane and vile hate-filled shit about Americans at the bar, they act as if America already murdered 1000 Canadian toddlers. Fucking wild times we live in, like a lightbulb was switched on and now Canadians are speaking like America raped their mom. The brainwashing of Canadians is completely over-the-top. COVID worked wonders to program all of these NPCs. In the last 24 hours, all of these random dipshits have become huge Canadian patriots like their programming has been changed. So bizarre to witness but it makes perfect sense if you understand mass manipulation. The system wants middle and lower class Canadians to hate middle and lower class Americans, because then nobody will blame their governments for serving the elite and not them.

Fingers crossed I don't get hit with the NSF fees, because the insurance company will bang my shit twice for a total of $90 in fees for the bank that is a billion-dollar profiting company... just trying to survive and get my 4th book out into the world is extremely difficult!

I have got a bunch of stuff up for sale on Facebook Marketplace, but things just haven't worked out quite yet, so I'm literally dancing on $0 and trying to survive. It is SO cold, -12c, and heading to -18c this week and the mice have been having a Royal Rumble in my kitchen and all across my shit for weeks now.

Am I the only dipshit who is living in extreme poverty on this board or are there other fellow near-homeless people here? I really hope other Canadians on this board aren't falling for the massive propaganda wave spreading across all social media. Canadians are completely gung-ho on this anti-America wave and it is ridiculous. There is no way Trudeau and Trump are enemies in private, they're on the same team. Not a single politician is going to be worrying about bills, yet they say "we're all in this together" because they know the majority of the population is so stupid and so brainwashed that they will fall for this nonsense new taxation just like they did with the money printing and stimulus during COVID... :disgust

Phew one of my payments came through, I'm saved!

I can't be the only person just barely makin' it in 2025 on this board... am I?!?! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

You’re talking about other people being brainwashed but start your story by stating you HAD to spend your last $30 getting drunk at a bar.

I don’t think you’re in a position to judge who is brainwashed and who isn’t.

Get help. Be better

I went to talk to strangers, and it was a lot of fun, $30 lasted me nearly 3 hours of listening to people say the craziest shit about America. It is like a switch was turned on in people's heads to suddenly hate Americans.

Seems, to me, like Canadians are really falling for the pandemic 2.0 already. Would be interesting if other Canadians on here went to the pub and talked to a bunch of strangers and listen to what they say. At least out in Vernon, B.C., a lot of people I talked to were pretty much full of hate and nobody has even paid a tariff fee yet!

“Buy Canadian” is the new “Get Vaccinated” it seems.

It's time for you to restore order in your kingdom regarding your little rebels! :thumbsup

lol....

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The sole reason of his miserable life ....

I feel rich

My life was awesome until COVID!!!

2020-2024 have been the worst years of my life, no question, hooooo-leeeee-fuk!

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

If you can wake up and afford to go and do or work on what you want... you're rich.

If you wake up and have to slave away working on something that you don't value... you're poor.

IRS levied and froze my bank account for $12.5k because they claimed I paid Q1 and Q4 payroll taxes in 2023 but not Q2 or Q3, which makes no sense, and accountant says there's bank transactions showing the payments being made.

So ya know, you could say I'm barely scraping by for now.

When did that happen?!?!

No, your life was 'awesome' until you made the decision not to get vaccinated while working with individuals that were at a high risk of infection and ultimately death.

When you work in the medical field, its commonly accepted that you follow medical advice given in order to protect the patients in your care.

The reason things went to shit, is because you didn't do what you needed to do in order to maintain your job and protect those under your care... Because, I'm sure you knew better than the science because of watching Becky's YouTube videos explaining why vaccines are bad... Mmmkay...

No matter how you try to spin it as the Canadian governments fault, your employers, the booze, whatever, it ultimate comes down to the fact that YOU done fucked up and are trying to find any way possible to negate that fact, it must be a consipracy :1orglaugh

Here we go again. Reason #278394 why this chump too good to work. He is an efing aaaaartist. :1orglaugh Without any art. :2 cents:

Can vaccines cause artism?

Buddy, in Fauci's own words you low IQ fucking retard...

Wait - are you asking if anyone makes their living on the seat of their pants? Like, gay sex or shitting?

Maybe CurrentlySober....lol

Look like lack of them can.

lmfao on Wednesday last week.

Holy shit dude... good luck!

Seems like I'm GFY's only resident brokie AND resident schizo, hopefully the IRS doesn't fuck you too hard so you don't end up like me! :thumbsup

It's all an act..

Is Huggles secretly Juicy D Links? :O

Actually, at the moment Ive been experimenting with runny diareah. After all, a change is a good as a rest... :2 cents:

That said though, enjoyable as I have found it to be, due to its warm and runny nature, it no longer accumulates in the seat of my pants, but seeps through them, directly onto the chair (or down my legs if standing) so not sure if that really counts?

No worries though, just thought I'd share my 'Art'... :thumbsup

quiet whining & keep working...

only way we all can get by these days :2 cents:

I am hustling to sell my ball chair and shit on Facebook Marketplace but it just dumped a TON of snow and it is -15c (5f) where I live, and I don't think people are driving much... I'm sitting over here SHOCKED that in winter weather it is hard to sell a convertible... at least I have burgers in the freezer but I can't afford even $5 for buns! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

As soon as my next affiliate payment comes, I'm renewing Tube Site Submitter and uploading more compilations...

Book #4 is SO close to being finished. I just pulled an all nighter last night re-writing a ton of the book because of the Trump tariffs... I think it actually adds to the story that the USA is involved with the main story. It actually makes some sense now, too, since Canadians have lost their minds and are rabidly hating on the USA. (like programmed NPCs, but that's Canadians for you...)

yeh
 

I'm broke in cambodia.
It sucks I'm so sick of being broke.
i pretty much my whole life have lived on close to nothing.
And it's made me evil I am evil.
I don't wanna have to worry about stupid pieces of paper dictating if I eat well.
I used to live in thailand and I was able to live off of 300 USD per month.
that's scraping by money but in thailand I know how to get by on that.
Not always 300 per month you need more but 300 USD per month is just doable there.

I was in your spot for 2014/2015... Every blackhat thing I was doing got clobbered by Google. Every trademark I was using got pulled. Everything just sucked. I got by with Fiverr and doing gig work here. But so much has changed since then. I don't think the gig work is even available anymore.

These days I am doing a lot better than then. I just made the most ever last year. I am still doing things similar to before, but I am not completely black hat about it anymore. And I keep doing more and more new things to expand my income and business.

I would never spend $30 on drinking back in 2015. I wouldn't go to a bar. I still don't like going to a bar to drink. I only just did so in Puerto Rico because their drinks and beers are cheaper at a bar than here in the mainland. Reminded me of Mexico prices.

At one point I owed the IRS over $200,000. I know how much it sucks to get your bank account levied and to have them keep attacking you. One little tip: Make an LLC and keep your money in that account. They won't usually pull it from a business account because it has an EIN and not a SSN. Got that all cleared up though a few years ago. It is so nice to have my passport back. Now if I can just get my hands on my ePassporte!

Damn!

Lots of peeps on GFY have had their ups and downs and bounced back stronger after adversity, I'll keep trying to unfuck things!

An LLC is a good tip regardless, but I assure you, they will pull from a business account. Being an LLC means your personal account can never be levied.

Source: My business account is currently being levied because of a fuckup by Square Payroll in 2023.

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Copy and paste for those who don't have X

Sometimes you have to sacrifice that illusionary freedom to achieve your goals. I was hovering near your place on/off here and there. So I took a restaurant job again to pay the bills and finance some plans I've been working on. You can't ever join the army as a general and to survive a battle, a plan of action is needed. You rarely get that at the bottom of a whiskey bottle just saying.

Today I spent in bed shivering under 4 blankets because it is -15c outside and the mice have chewed sooooooo many holes in the walls and ceiling, and I have no food, ate my last 3 boiled eggs today.

Waiting for an affiliate payment to show up so I can eat and renew Tube Site Submitter so I can do uploads and Living Writer so I can plug in the writing of my 4th book and see how much is left. Also, need to get a couple cans of expanding foam so I can plug the holes! Not sure if I will have enough money left over for a coil pack for my car. I cleaned the ground wires off under the hood the other day and the car ran better. Battery is definitely not liking the -15c weather so I bring my portable jump starter with me whenever I go anywhere and usually have to use it, but not always.

Facebook banned me for posting my video I made of the drug crisis in Vancouver so my car and ball chair ads are gone, but this dude is texting me and swearing he's going to buy the ball chair on Thursday, but that doesn't help on Monday when you're shivering and starving.

Phew, definitely living life on the seat of my pants, refreshing my inbox every 5 minutes to see if my life line PayPal shows up!

it is "by the seat of your pants" not "on the seat of your pants".

living life on the seat of your pants means that you are sitting.

Whoops!

Well, either way, fingers crossed the affiliate payment comes tomorrow, I have lots of content chopped for upload.

Need to find something good to watch on the ol' TV while I hunker down under the 4 blankets. The electric stove top is on high and providing a little heat!

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Hooray!

Just need to get paid so I can renew Tube Site Submitter, I got some crazy compilations ready to go!

You could just submit manually in the meantime. There are only a handful of sites worth submitting to anyways, and you obviously have time to kill

I'm uploading from a 2 mbit upload connection so each site takes 20-30 minutes to upload to... manually doing it would be EXTREMELY tedious. It works great overnight and is a bit faster too. The uploads often fail as well, so the retry feature is really handy.

I do get listed at around 20-30 sites, so it's really not worth it to manually do it, especially if I'm doing 4-5 compilations per day x 20-30 sites, 100+ manual uploads per day...

Fingers crossed I get a PayPal tomorrow, I'm so hungry I can't sleep, having another glass of water. Had a great little daydream of a scene for the 4th book, it's been sooooooo fun to write. The first page and last page are finished, and once I get to that point, the book writes itself through daydreams real quick.

Tomorrow I have to build the bucket of death to kill some of these fucking mice, there have to be like 20+ mice in my shack at the moment, it's like the fucking WWE royal rumble. One mouse got into the hamster cage and my hamster beat the fuck out of it and it got the fuck out of the cage pronto.

Extremely difficult living conditions, but in a great place creatively. The ideas and writing just flows so easy.... now if I can just get sales on my work then I'll be fully self-actualized again. Fuck is it ever coooooooold in here at the 'puter, gotta get back under the fuckin' blankets!!!

Im sure there has got to be some workaround such as uploading your videos once to Google Drive or some sort of FTP/Bucket and using those to upload to tube sites. Alot of them accept urls instead of direct uploads. Or get a cheap VPN/Virtual Computer to handle file uploads.

With a good password manager, properly organized bookmarks for quick logging in, you could easily bang out those submissions in 1-2 hours.

I used to do the same thing when submitting galleries back in the day. If you optimize your flow you won’t depend on software

Hell, if you’re half as smart, creative and hardworking as you describe yourself to be, you could easily create your own python script to do the work for you while you sleep. You could learn it from scratch in a week if you really wanted to

Well, I'm at $0, my main focus is survival on no food until I get paid. Shit's rough bro!

Its not rough when you compulsively make choices that put you in your situation.

Living in squalor while working on “art” that doesn’t have a chance in hell of making money isn’t exactly a great strategy to lift yourself out of your situation.

If you REALLY wanted to make a change, you’d make the effort to find solutions to your problems like those that I posted above

That's the thing, maybe this book won't make any money, maybe the 6th one won't either, maybe the 8th will start to bring in an income...

But I can guarantee if I work a 9-5 job in Canada, I will never get out of poverty and never have the joy I get from working on art. I'm an outgoing dude for the most part, and pretty chatty as most of GFY can tell, and there's a chick who brings her truck to my mechanic for repairs, she works in the city planning department in Kelowna and makes over $35 an hour and she's almost as broke as I am, the only difference is she has a newer fancy rental apartment and a newer, big monthly payment vehicle, and an iPhone 14 or 15 pro, but basically has less than $300 a month after all of her bills for any spending money, and she's a drunk too! Obviously why we get along, haha. I told her she suffers from lifestyle creep, but she doesn't listen.

Which would you choose, a wage you can feed your stomach on but your soul is empty, or projects that keep your soul full but leave the stomach grumbling?

I mean, who even knows what "Canada" will look like in 1 year from now, I'm flying by the seat of my pants at the moment. ( Thanks Sarettah )

Still chopping more compilations ahead of time here so when I can afford the $35 Tube Site Submitter license, I'll be back uploading again. Will have a shit ton of movies in the queue so I can setup 30 days worth of uploads (150 uploads or so) in like 1 day and then forget about it for the next 30 days.

The last week or so I've re-written like 20k words in the book for the Trump tariffs, it's a silly action-crime-comedy novel, but it totally fits into the whackiness of 2025 already. I guess us Canadians better buckle up, because shit is gonna get wild for the next 4 years!

This.

AI is an amazing (free) tool for this type of thing too.

It really does seem like you are creating your own problems dude, think ‘smarter’ not harder…

Buddy guy, I'm going to leverage AI to help market my 4th book, it is almost done!

I DID just think smarter, not harder, I saw my neighbour's car with a flat tire this morning, guy just got home a little while ago and knocked on my door because he knows I have a stockpile of old tires... sold a 17 inch winter tire for $60 and I picked up some whiskey for dinner!!! :pimp

Back to chopping content for uploads... if porn can just keep me going while I write my books, shit will be golden in the future... whether the gold is in wealth or in piss down my legs is yet to be seen!

Yes, literally since 2005 when someone said "lol promoting porn pics doesn't make money" and yet im still paying bills with it?????????

I wonder what idiot said that shit, probably burned out and has been bouncing between low level IT jobs for the past 20 years.

How did you get started in adult?

So I have some serious questions here....

Currently, ( for now ) I am gainfully employed and have a few side hustles bringing in a few dollars.

However if I didnt... I'd be working my ass off to get some USD in my hands.

Given that you seem to have a following on GFY, somehow ..
Do you actually not have any skills?

I'd be shilling whatever I could do, at lower rates than my US competitors and making 'more' than them after exchange.. just as I did in 200X's

What the fuck are you doing man?

We should bring E/N back.

Oh, now you want a job as CFO or lead surgeon or something? What a fucking cuck.
My cousin Lives in TO and went through nasty divorce in 2017. Was border line homeless with 2 kids. Managed to finish Robertson college and get degree in public accounting. Now she is living normal life with her son.
Stop fucking crying. Go get a job if you can't do anything else besides submitting galleries. :2 cents:

There is plenty I can do, but even at $30-$40 an hour you're not going to be making any real money in Canada and all your time is gone so you won't really be able to work on anything else. A full time 9-5 job would only allow me to negligibly upgrade my lifestyle but completely consume all of my time. A $40 an hour job in Canada is only $25, or less, USD an hour, and on top of that you'll be taxed up the ass, so that $40 an hour becomes like $200-$220 a day Canadian, fast. Then you're spending 1 hour probably commuting each way and probably at least $10 in gas per day...

Like I said earlier, it is better to be poor but creating, than be the working poor and not creating. :thumbsup

Sold a snow tire to my neighbour yesterday so I got money for food... doing firewood deliveries this week with a buddy for some rent money too. At least these gig jobs pay like $50 cash for like an hour worth of work and I can do them to cover the basics without having to commit to a 9-5 which steals all of your time and mental energies.

Before COVID, I was doing caregiving for disabled seniors and working towards getting a bigger vehicle. A 20 passenger bus was like $10,000 in decent shape, and I was looking into making arrangements to drive more seniors around and take them places. My boss, a lady who was retiring from respite work, estimated I could've made like $5000 a weekend driving seniors around to their stops and taking them out to the park and such because lots of families are willing to pay for their seniors to get out of the care homes or house for the day. If you just had 10 passengers for 4 hours going to the park for an ice cream and to walk around in the sun, you can make like $15 per hour per senior, x4 hours, x10 seniors, and do that twice a day on the weekends. $1200 in 8 hours minus gas... Then usually at least a half dozen families want their senior to go spend a weekend at an AirBNB (that they pay for) so you can take their senior to some events or a movie or something to keep them entertained, and then you get the $150 overnight fee per senior as well, plus $15 an hour per senior as your very base rate, where a lot of people are paying like $50 an hour for premium respite work. Caring for the olds is big business and some people pay out the ass for Grandma to have the best care. There was a dentist lady who paid $500 a day for just her brother to get the best care, as both his knees were fucked and he walked at like 1 kilometer per hour, but he loved to walk around parks and bird watch. I made good money taking him for coffees at the Nanaimo waterfront and helping him operate his camera to get photos of seagulls.

Of course, refusing the clot shot killed that path!

Dude I wish, I miss that era of the internet so much!