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        Just  a retired bloke, wanting to do some constructive work, and get paid a decent return for that.

    Life for me started in 1930, when I was born in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, I went to a
Montessori Kindergarten, and my primary education was at the First Netherlands Montessori School,
     High-school education too, was Montessori based, we could learn at our own pace, and pick up
as much as we were interested in from each subject.
    Professional instruction I got at the Agricultural Winter School, while I started work on a farm.
AS I was brought up in the city, and not really used to living Rural, I found it difficult, to get a good position on a farm in the Netherlands, as Prospective employers have a bias towards employing somebody with a city-life background.

Also My family’s home farm was not likely to be available to me in the future, as there were two children ahead of me in line of succession.
 
    So in 1951 a decision was made, to emigrate to a more favourable country, where I would not be asked where I came from,
but what I could do, and how clever I would be in my work, agriculturally based.

    From 1951 to 1965   I, therefore went to work for wages on about 9 different farms in New Zealand, shepherding and farm maintenance..
Climate and type of population were most favourable there for me.

    In 1965 I managed to purchase my present home, for a low price in a small village of 250 inhabitants.
I also took on working under contract instead of  for a boss.
I did fencing, scrubcutting and maintenance work on several farms, sometimes travelling long distances to get to the job.
Soon discovering, that you only make a decent income, by staying on the job in situ, so I lived in a tent most of the time, only coming home to my property in Owhango when I had finished a contract, or the weather became inclement.

    Interesting was the work I did in the spring every year, for three months I was employed
by the Auckland Livestock Association, later renamed Herd Improvement Association, but what is in a name ?
I had 4 groups to service one year; and did a week of inseminating over 200 cows at the top of my career;
as the “homegroup” was a group with only 1000 cows to service,
but involving up to 230 miles travelling to get from farm to farm, I was at that time the highest
paid field technician in the association. I stuck to this job for 25 years before retirement forced me to leave.

    In that time, I was doing another job in the winter months as well.
I trained myself to be successful at “freezebranding” , we were not making much profit with that, as the New Zealand economy started to slow down by then, but I could still make the ends meet nicely.
I was not getting rich mind you.

    At the age of 60 I was lucky enough to get my “Superannuation” from the NZ government; in 1992 the government discovered, that they were retiring people too early, and it became too costly to support all those gray people, so the retirement age has been changed to 65  now.

     Up to 1997 I was Still doing the freezebranding , I got a little bit of extra income, and had free board and lodging on each farm as I travelled from one farm to the next.
 So I have freezebranded for about 30 years every winter.
As I developed a chronic infection in the shoulder muscles I had to give that up.
 
 I bought my first computer , a Casio FX-9000, and I had a lot of fun with that, taught myself programming in Casio-basic
which later was embroidered upon to go Q-Basic and now Extended Q-Basic, lots of  fun !
On a trip to Australia to visit my niece, I bought another computer, and I have been updating computers ever since, like we all do.
Now I am on the internet, with a Broadband connection 
 
    July 16  2002 I started  with the Discount Home Shoppers Club,  upgrading three days later,
and I am starting to look forward to earning a decent income in a few more months from now, the first check arrived recently.

About the Discount Home Shoppers Club and my upline team :
After I upgraded to VIP, I had plenty of good advice, and training from my Team Captain and higher up in the Hierachy.
The patience they had with me is to be admired, I came up with some silly questions, did things the wrong way,
generally making a mess of it.
But it did not fluster the Captain.
If I become a Team Captain, I hope to be just as patient and forgiving as that person.
The club has also an E-business training site, which is excellent, the training is done in stages, and to go from one to the other,
 there is a pause with a line of questions to answer before going on to the next section.
I am very pleased with it, and can recommend it to anyone.
As the income was too low for comfort, I gave up my membership later.
Anybody who is interested in this club, can see the website here. the club is still working.

Nowadays  I am involved with WORM FARMING, have been working this for the last ten years.
Not much of an income yet at this stage, but a lot of fun, as I am doing a bit of research with techniques and foodstuffs etc.
See my comments and advice to anyone wishing to start a wormfarm by  going to the relevant  website.

I Also  discovered a program, which looked like a winner as it had been going for three years already
without collapsing like so many others.
It involved reading and placing advertisements, and getting paid a residual Commission for doing that.
This program has collapsed due to cashflow problems.
Some members are trying to save some of it, but it is going to take time and effort.
   
                Holidaying with my oldest cousin in the Netherlands.               
             Holidaying with my Sister in Slovenia .