David Stein

                               david@chicagolandbusinessblog.com

Now,  there is  Chicagoland Business Blog, Twitter, Google, Facebook, Ebay, Aol, Yahoo, and many other websites in my life now. It  is  a continual chore for an old school fool like me to figure out the basic computer technology absolutely involved in all the skills I must learn to effectively do my job .

I once thought I could bail out by having someone else do all the heavy lifting involved in computers relative to emailing,  links, listing, editing, posting, designing,  and all the other crap I must do to try and exist in this new world of technology.

All I want to do is call people and sell advertising. But that cannot be done anymore. Every dime made is attached to this computer. I just don’t know if I can ever get it. If I were just more capable, or had better aptitude with technical things life would be easier.  Sell, sell, sell used to be enough until the world went speeding by me with computers and more computers.

So, I don’t try to fight the inevitable anymore as I sit here typing with my same two fingers. I have surrendered to the torture of continually doing computer things that do not come naturally to me.  I will eventually transfer this rough draft to a word document by copying and pasting so I can spell check this column. That’s actually progress. A while ago I did not know how to do almost anything with a computer.

I am still like a person who can only drive forward because I do not know how to back up. What pain I am in no matter what support others will give me. It’s embarassing to ask the same computer questions to others over and over. But, to get the traffic up on this site I need to use all those different sites I mentioned and I need to know a whole lot more.

I have actually had a good time listing sports T shirts, sweatshirts, CDs, and other stuff on my eBay site this weekend.. I am really not proficient there either but I am capable enough to photograph and list my items so it’s fun.

So, by the way you can see what I am seliing by clicking

http://myworld.ebay.com/cashguy1111

I am seller cashguy1111 with a 100% feedback rating and a satisfaction or money back guarantee policy. I can maybe at least draw some traffic to my ebay site this weekend of freezing weather in Chicago and make a few dollars as I sit here and grind away..

Meanwhile, I will now go put this mess of words on a document, edit it, and paste it back here later. Then, I need to post this column on Tweeter, Facebook,Google, and Yahoo so some of you out there will see it. Anyone else would have an easy time understanding and doing all of that. To me , it’s eating computer spinach.

Happy, Healthy New Year to all of you and yours.

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