Workin hard for the money...

When people see this site, or the dollarforeddie.com website, a lot of them might jump to the conclusion that I'm some sort of deadbeat sitting around at home all day begging on the internet.

It couldn't be farther from the truth.

I do work, even though it's been so hard to find decent work in the last year or two. Right now I waste a lot of my time working for peanuts at a local restaurant that monopolizes my time, and I spend my time off working odd jobs and selling door to door for commissions that are hard to come by.

Up until recently, I've been working in construction, but with thee banks holding out on granting loans, people, businesses, and contractors that have been providing work for construction workers haven't been able to secure the capital to fund new construction projects, and construction has all but dried up.

Is it different where you live? Tell me about it.

I saw it first in Las Vegas when I first got into my specialty of the construction field. Once I got out of voc. school and starting hitting the pavement, most of the companies I contacted had all their people on the bench. Or they were laying their people off because there was no work. Or they were returning all of their rented equipment, since they couldn't pay for it anymore, and many went out of business.

When my family and I moved to Colorado, I saw a similar pattern. Even though I was able to find work here and there, I heard a lot of company's giving the same statements, and heard a lot about 'irons in the fire' that, later, never came around. Now, there's nothing out there (here, where I am), and so I went back to my old experience in restaurants.

Unbelievably, it took me almost two months to get a lousy job in a restaurant. There wasn't enough business for anyone to hire on anyone more, and all restaurants were fully staffed. A restaurant manager I knew from working for her once before told me about how all of he servers had reduced hours, she had restaurant managers working as servers, and people with PH'D's working for her because they couldn't find work anywhere else.

Even though I'm working in a restaurant now, it's as if I've started over, doing the host/food running jobs that are normally entry-level.

So, I work hard, but never get around to finding enough time to seriously start up my writing business, or the time to write the fiction I so dearly love.

Hence, I created the 'Dollar For Eddie' project to hopefully provide some relief, enable me to better pay my bills, pay off my debt, and give me the chance to get my dreams off the ground.

Of course, it's not total begging. I'm trying to give you something back in return for a little, single dollar sent my way.

Donate ONE dollar to my cause, and I'll put your name in one of my books. I'll also list your name, your contribution, and a message of your design on the 'tally' page of my website (how about some 'free' marketing and cross-promotion?). Lastly, whenever I DO write something entertaining, I put it on the 'extras' page. So, you can think of it as paying a dollar to advertise, be entertained, and be immortalized in a published book.

Go here to see the 'extras':

http://DollarForEddie.com/extras.html

I hope to see your little, 'ole dollar in the mail soon. ;)

The Top Ten Reasons to Send me a Dollar

1. You'll just spend that dollar on something you won't even remember. You'll remember this. You'll check back here every once and a while. You might tell people about it. And one day, you'll see your name in a published book, and it'll make you smile.


2. Support art and culture! That one dollar will go a little way toward paying off my debt or otherwise supporting my ability to write and focus on building my career as an author. That dollar will become a tiny part of a novel, which will serve to enrich and encourage positive culture and the art of our time.


3. Do you have an ugly dollar? You know--it's all soft, crumpled, torn and split. Maybe it's dirty and hard to read. You always put that dollar at the top of your wallet and find reasons to spend it so you can get RID of it and pass it off to someone else, right? Well ... I'll take it. No discrimination here.


4. Think of it as a tip.


5. Support the flailing banks! I need to give over 40,000 dollar bills to the various banks who own my unsecured debt. That one dollar of yours will go to them. And if you didn't support the bail-outs--if you don't like the banks that took government support, then tell me so, and I'll send your dollar to one of my banks that didn't participate.


6. Do you have so many dollars that you don't know what to do with them? I have a solution: Send one to me. Or fifteen-thousand.


7. As you'll read in the "More About Me" page, this is for a good cause. It's not a non-profit, or the Salvation Army, but it will support a strong, American mind that will work to encourage the values of freedom, liberty, integrity, and rationality.


8. I'm not a bum. I'll use your dollar wisely.


9. The stock market is going crazy. How can you invest in any of those public stocks if you don't know which ones are plummeting, which ones are being nationalized, or which ones are still honest? Invest in me. In my mind. And I'll work to make this country and its private businesses safer to invest in again.


10. You are reading the product of my intellect. It costs $1 to stand on my intellectual property.