Very Well, so the Kalmindon catastrophe is done and dusted. I know I’ve been ripped off by a team of two of very clever brothers with a very plausible story, it’s cost me 3 grand that I paid for SEO training that I could have found from the internet for nothing, with no prospect at all of the promised clientele that was ‘guaranteed upon course completion’ turning up. They were meant to have a ‘pool of clients’ waiting to have their site optimised and they would just join me up with the ones either in or nearest to the Black Country.
Of course the spiteful thing, which applies for all of us who have been cheated, is not the cash that we all paid out to the Brothers Grim, but the resources we used up in the meantime. Because they allocated us a website of their own to go with which needed plenty of articles, fifty in my case, in the expectation that a paying client was forthcoming and I could begin to generate some sort of income. In my case that means that since I started the training in April I have been living off my own money to support us during that period and now here we are in November and it is just about all gone. Happily, the cost of living in the Black Country is much less than it would be in lots of places, but it could not carry on forever, and it did not.
But, what I have come away with is the knowledge that I wasn’t the only one and some bright others have also been swindled equally so I’m not the only mug. The other is that I know how do SEO, something that I didn’t even know existed before the episode but now I understand it and really enjoy doing it. To me, SEO is the ideal occupation as my missus is having chemotherapy at the moment which means frequent trips to hospitals around the Black Country and I can go off for a time to go with her.
I had already been practicing some IT support for small firms in the Black Country though it just ran to the odd call to connect a printer or resuscitate a crashed pc, not as often as I would prefer obviously. But what I can do now is to combine both skills and offer SEO and IT support and hopefully gain steady business coming in.
But while I try to find something, I might have to see about a position at the Scottish burger restaurant or behind a bar somewhere but it isn’t likely to help very much as the first Mrs Izzard is about to go on half pay from next month as she has been off sick for treatment for six months now. Which is of course another rather inopportune case of timing as far as the swindle of time and money by Kalmindon is concerned.
So, although I’m not bred into the Black Country I have found them to be largely jolly and upbeat folk, and I will endeavour to adopt that outlook as I am, after all a far better person than the excrescences who most likely feel very satisfied and clever at having done me and the others. But then that is perhaps how sociopaths operate and I am a good fellow. So there. *Blows a raspberry!*
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