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I like to believe that I’m pretty good with money. I know exactly what I want to do and how I’m going to execute them. But if you look my past financial history, you’d think otherwise. I became involved in trading stocks as soon as I started making money out of college and soon became obsessed with trading penny stocks. After losing tens of thousands of dollars, I decided to call it quits and limit my losses. Soon after, I received a certified letter indicating that I’m being sued for $50,000 for trading fraudulent shares. I was one of hundreds of investors that were involved. Fortunately, all charges were eventually dropped and I let go a huge sigh of relief.

Then I got involved in online gambling. My dreams of becoming a professional poker player never came into fruition and I was left with even more money lost. In 2006, I decided to venture out of my parents house and buy my own. Of course, 2006-2007 was the last year we saw home prices rise. I bought my house in September 2006 and it didn’t take long before the price started to come down. Currently, I’m sitting at 26.5% decline from my original purchase price, according to Zillow.com. Despite these bad decisions, I was never in debt. I never borrowed money from friends or family, or from any bank. All of the money I used or lost were of my own. Since then, I feel I have learned a great deal in money management.

Blogging For A Living?

A few years ago, this one guy came to visit my church. When I got to talk to him, I simply asked what he did for a living. He replied by saying, “I’m a blogger.” I was very confused and “Xanga” immediately came to my mind. Of course, he wasn’t referring to Xanga at all. I was way off and after he expounded on what he really did, I was immediately interested in hearing more. I became even more interested when he told me how much money he made every month.

I was running my own personal blog using xanga platform for several years prior to meeting him. I updated it practically everyday. Whether people read it or not, it really didn’t matter. I enjoyed rambling on about dumb things such as how I liked seeing blue water in the men’s room toilet of my office building, implying that the housekeeping/janitor had just cleaned up in there. So, combining blogging and money in the same sentence was something I wanted to try and the idea of making money blogging became an instant goal to pursue.

Yakezie

I started Money Green Life back in November 2009 and saw little or no progress. I quickly realized how hard it was to maintain a running blog. It was nothing like writing a few short sentences on Xanga. However, I was able to find motivation and encouragement from other fellow bloggers who testified that hard work will eventually pay off. Eventually, I came across Yakezie and quickly joined in the fun. My Alexa ranking at the time was over 2 million and currently after 3 months, it’s sitting pretty at just under 300,000.

Future

I currently work as a full-time engineer in the suburbs of Maryland and I have no plans to quit my job to become a professional blogger any time soon. But if I can build Money Green Life to a point where it can bring a decent supplemental income, that would be pretty terrific. Either way, I have learned a great deal just writing about money and interacting with other bloggers. If I thought I was a pretty good money manager 10 years ago, I’m sure I’ll be just that much better 10 years from now.

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