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Posted on 26th November 2007

My First Blog Post

Hello and welcome. My name is Kevin Fahey, originally from County Kildare in Ireland, currently living in Spain sitting in front of a computer for about 8 hours a day trying to come up with new ways of making money online using my computer.

When, where and how did this all start? Well, I was thinking about this last night, and as far as I can remember, I would have been around 14 (8 years ago) when I was messing around on the internet and came across a site "getting paid to do surveys". I spent a few hours one month filling out a few answers and then, one month later, a cheque arrived for me in the post for about $7. Wahoo, well no not really. I think the bank at the time charged me £3.50 Irish Pounds to change it, so I pretty much ended up with nothing.

Was that the end of home based business for me? Well kind of, for at least a few years. I think the reason this ended along with a lot of my other positive interests was I found out what a woman and a pint of beer was.

After doing a few years of bar work in my hometown of Monasterevin, in a pub formally called Dunphys (now Cumminfords), I picked up a few bar tending skills and decided to move to Mallorca in Spain.

After the first season finished in October, ninety-five percent of the workers packed up and were off home until next May, back to college, or in some of the bands cases back to the wife and kids. So here I'm left all confused wondering where to go and what to do. To make a long story short I went to live in Lanzarotte for about 3 months, and the one thing I learned about Lanzarotte is "Don't go there". Even to this day I cannot understand the reason for people liking this resort. When I arrived there I ended up doing a week's work in the newly built up town of Playa Blanca in an Irish Bar. All was good until I decided to move to the main tourist part of the Island and this is where shit began to go wrong. Bosses didn't want to pay me, some non-English speaking work colleagues tried to rob me and talk about trying to get a staff discount in the bar you work in... Forget it!!! This is just my story and I am sure there are a lot of good ones as well but as far as I am concerned Lanazarotte can stay far south east of Spain and I will remain happy in Mallorca on the beautiful west coast.

So after that dreadful spell, I ended up moving back home to Ireland with my tail between my legs and moved to Portlaois to work in a small busy bar called Sally Garden's. The money was ok, but hours were extremely long. All in all though it was worth it considering I saved up enough to move back to Mallorca and continue working in Greenhills Disco Bar, Santa Ponsa.

After a few more years, I was starting to think, what future has this job got for me and where is it going. Bars and nightclubs in Santa Ponsa and places similar all have the one thing in common; in this line of work your position holds alot of status. You have the manager and you have the junior staff. No in between, no bitching and no union! It works well when you have a good manger and luckily I did.

So me thinking ahead for the winter of 2007 with no job, no other sort of income. Its time for a plan!!! One thing I noticed about the Island of Mallorca there are a lot of business' who could profit a lot from having a website. Something at this stage I knew nothing about. I was messing about in Publisher 98 when I was young and came up sites about myself and my interests that looked ok. But let's admit it, anyone can design a web page in Publisher, its t when they go on to editing it, the problem starts.

That's all I have time for now. In my next post I will continue explaining how I began to learn HTML and what I used.

Kevin Fahey
26/11/2007
Sitting on the Balcony overlooking the bay of Santa Ponsa

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