Vemma annoys the shit out of facebook by PplusAD, August 16
haven’t blogged since that funny MMA incident.
Some stuff about my current life (If you are not interested skip to the part that says Vemma...)
In the last months my life finally has gone pretty much the way parents always tell you how a life of an adult should look like when you are a kid
I currently work two enjoyable jobs part time
1.)I am selling office products (office chairs,computers, other electronics ,furniture etc. )for a big company to other companies who did ask for offers. I do that as a part time job 5-6h a day from monday to friday.
2.) I am working as a fitness and health coach 3times a week doing my own small business whenever I have free time.
Job 1 is more relaxed then your typical sales job since I get enough fixed money + some very small commission percentage. (opposed to small fixed money and big commission percentage in stressful sales jobs)
Also the fact that the company only sales quality products to other companies that did a request makes it a lot easier.
There is a giant difference between "annoying the shit out of potential customers -> persuading a 50year old women to buy shitty dog food for 40-60$ on the telephone" and trying to sell a product like a good office chair to a company that has called us 2 days ago and asked what we have to offer concerning office chairs since they need ~20 of them.
I haven’t been very active in MMA for almost 3 years now...
I still train occasionally
Have been living together with my Girlfriend for almost 2 1/2 years now
I am 28years of age.
So overall I am living a pretty enjoyable but non baller life right now.
go to bed 11pm
wake up 7am.
eat 3-4 healthy meals a day
Go to work ~ 42h a week
earn enough money to have a good time (nothing spectacular though)
Live together with the same girlfriend
Do Sports in my free time(but nothing excessive)
All my life I had that urge in me to be different.
To do stuff others don’t dare.
To play high risk and win big.
The urge to succeed big or die trying.
That’s why I did choose mostly extreme ways to spend my time in the past.
Doing drugs, making music , fighting MMA, playing Poker as main income for some time etc.
I felt like there is absolutely no way i can be happy living a normal life.
Either total failure or total success. No in between for me.
Ironic , that i now finally did find some inner peace by just being "normal" and "boring"
Which brings us to Vemma
Vemma currently seems to expand big towards Germany and my facebook is spammed big by all kind of different people who try to make money from their energy drink product Verve.
I must admit marketing wise Vemma has done a pretty good job.
They have tons of marketing videos that repeat key-sentences over and over again so that after watching them often enough it makes you want to buy their products.
It reminds me a lot of the pokerboom in 2007 where pokerstrategy ,cardrunners , Partypoker and pokerstars did tell you over and over again that everyone can make a shitload out of money from poker. 100$ as sustainable hourly income was reachable for everyone.
And after seeing enough people succeeding short-term (well you only saw the upswings and never saw the downswings ^^) everyone played poker trying to make thousands a month.
It’s kinda the same with Vemma.
They do sell an energy drink called Verve.
The idea is that you buy a Unit of X energy drinks from Vemma and then resell them to other people.
Since you won’t make a lot of money on that reselling part alone (if at all) Vemma does offer you additional bonus money in case you get other people to buying and reselling their energy drink, too
The more people you get into buying and reselling Verve energy drink the greater Bonus Vemma will give to you.
If u get enough guys into buying and reselling at one point they will offer you financial assistance in leasing a brand new BMW
Their main target audience are guys from 18-50 years of age who so far in life have failed in making a decent living.
To put it in a nutshell their main slogan is like:
You are broke as fuck , have failed in life and don’t know how to make any money ?
Now is your time to become filthy rich. We believe in you , you can do it ! Just go for it !
You don’t even have to succeed on your own. We will make you succeed !
And look at that nice car there ! It’s almost yours !
Well from a legal point of view their is not much you can argue.
Vemma is selling you energy drinks and you can resell them. Totally legal
They offer you bonus in case u get them new customers who also want to resell energy drinks. totally legal , too
The really filthy thing in this is that they play with losers dreams about finally not being a loser anymore.
I have watched a lot of their videos (since its spammed on my facebook) and what they repeat over and over again is
1.) You can do this and become rich ! Look at how rich these guys are who signed with us
2.) We will always help you so it can’t go wrong ! look at these guys who made it with our help.
3.) Our Products are so insanely good and healthy ! and look at that sick car they guy who sells them drives
4.) Sign with us and become a winner in life. And look at that brand new BMW that can be yours
Also it’s very important to spam your messages everywhere.
Get a Message out enough times and some idiot will believe it like religion
>-<
Well at least I get some good Ideas from their Videos how to do marketing right
Gonna need it in case I ever decide to expand on my fitness and health business ^^
Anyone has an idea where can i find the show ? MTV blocked my country from viewing season 2 for some reason and i cant seem to find it anywhere. Probably the only quality reality work mtv has done ever
why are people living life like its some movie that they need to put episode titles in everything they say or do? i get so mad lol
who wants to bet on sc2 or bw sospa matches for less than 50usd pstars? made a 100 deposit again and lost to stupid sngs lol. post here if theres a coming ufc or sc2/broodwar event vs me so i can just bet this and not log in to stars ever again (throwing my rsa token lol)
Since poker allows of freedom and downtime, one must set goals to accomplish to have purpose in life. Therefore, I picked things that most interested me and what I thought would also be somewhat meaningful/useful in life.
Dancing - I remember going to the club with a group of friends about 2 years ago and was dancing on my own having a good time being buzzed and these black girls told my friends that I couldn't dance. I didn't give a fck and keep dancing anyways. It must have been embaressing for my friends but i got no shame.
Anywho, the plan is to use my X-Box kinect and play Dance central/Justdance and unlock all the levels. Next time there is a social gathering or party at least I will be able to bust some moves and show people whats up.
Learning a new language - My wife is Vietnamese so that will be the most convenient and best language for me to learn. Right now she still speaks to me in English all the time but I am slowly persuading her to speak to me in vietnamese even tho she gets annoyed at me sometimes. Her parents are also living with us to help take care our 10 month year old son and they only speak vietnamese so they help out once in a while. Vietnamese will eventually come to me in maybe 2-3 years? who knows depends on how movitvated i am. After that I want to learn another language like spanish/chinese but I have no idea how I will do that. Rosetta stone maybe? one step at a time anyways.
Being able to speak another language is one of the best assets you can have in life whether it be traveling, doing business, or just being able to communicate with others i believe.
Learn Piano - I love the way this shit sounds. So many songs played on piano sound just so fcking beautiful and elegant. Learning to play this shit would help me not only with achieving one of my goals in life, but mentally sooth / therapy for soul in a sense.. so to speak. I also hear girls wet themselves over guys who can play instruments so that a bonus.
Gameplan for this is there is a guy on youtube named lypur. Watch and learn all his videos until i can learn sheet music then basically just spend hours and hours of alone time practicing playing this wonderful instrument. Will need to buy an electric keyboard or something for like 500 bucks I think is the right price range for a quality one.
Last few months have been quite interesting, lots of ups and downs. Since February I had moved to $200s and was doing quite well.
In April I went to the US for ~2 weeks, first time in California, had a great time with the gf, and when I came back even though I lost a bunch in the end, was still a pretty solid month for such a small volume + Show Spoiler +
http://i.imgur.com/PJmpIaM.png
May was my best month @ online poker, solid sng results and a great SCOOP with one FT and a deep run in the ME-mid, both could've easily ended in the 6 digits but still were good scores + Show Spoiler +
Then came June, which was a disaster. My first losing month, first I had the great idea to play 1000 games HU4rollz vs a guy I had a clear edge, but he got coached and maybe ghosted, and even with that I still played better and EV-wise it was really close but he godmoded and I lost 10k. At least I did learn a lot and improved my reg x reg game immensely. So I continued losing by running terrible @ $100s and $200s and after a ~130bi freefall I decided to drop the $200s to print some money variance-free + Show Spoiler +
http://i.imgur.com/Ney7AxY.png
And then in July money was printed variance-free. Played some BSOP events and didn't score shit but it's all good + Show Spoiler +
http://i.imgur.com/rMPPVqf.png
Looking forward for the WCOOPs next month, the Main Event is on my birthday which is a pretty obvious sign I'm gonna win. Gonna make another post later in the month to sell some action.
So I took advice of some of you and as my job ended, my roomate moved out of the flat in the UK I packed my bags, entire setup apart from speakers and flew to Cxech Republic.
44KG of bags on plane, my desktop and 2 24'' screens in them along with all my things - needless to say it ws an adventure. Regrettably I have to say that en route somehow the letter to the left of x on my keyboard got lost.
I parked myself in my sister's bungalow as she is away for 18 days and after that will stay in upstair flat where in my Grandma's house in my hometown. Hello expense free life, well virtually.
And what will I do for money? Well gamble of course
I have been playing quite a bit, but when you crush NL16-NL25 but then have to withdraw half your BR just to pay rent it gets a bit discouraging, knowing you pretty much can't move up safely just sucks.
But now I have a schedule, already arranged for floorball training next thursday and all my and most my family is here so I have no doubt about this being the very best conditions to give it one more shot (besides, working in Cxech Republic sucks, if I do fail I will with poker move out again but shht to my family xD)
I already have a group of microstakes players where I post regularly, if there is interest of making one for LP only let me know - it would be only known folk mostly from LP.Net, not one with randoms.
SChedule
This Weekend im stting myself up, just playing free for all but plan is to have 1 day off for family stuff, one day pure studying/sweats and play only if I really want and on playing days have a target of 7 hours+ more if I feel like it.
MOrning is always breakfast and excercise, and I will try not to eat much after 6 and keep a schedule around +-1hr constant every day
lifeblog update (extensive with random photos)by K40Cheddar, August 01
Hello LP,
I've been meaning to get around to writing a blog post for awhile but have been too lazy to do so. Many things have been happening in my life and I feel I am at a point where things are starting to come together. I wanted to share this with people, partially for me to get some things off my chest and partially to just let others know more about me.
Recent Graduation
Last May I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a double major in statistics and economics. As one of the top schools in the midwest United States, I was very happy to attend and had a great four years there. I am proud of my degree and had the opportunity to meet many new friends for life. I would have never got into poker if I hadn't met some select few people there as well who introduced me to this site a long time ago (jas0n, edzwoo). I also had the opportunity to play in the Big Ten Marching band down there, the Marching Illini. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life and I'll never forget the thrill of playing on the football field in front of tens of thousands of fans. While I loved the independence and freedom that college gave me there are some things I won't miss. While the atmosphere was exciting and young, I personally tend to live a more reserved life. Constant parties and screaming throughout the night got to me after awhile. It's not that I never liked going out, but I do appreciate my time alone and prefer social contact less often than others. I'm sure there are many LPers who feel that same way sometimes.
Probably the hardest part for me the last few months has been finding a solid job. Even with the double major I possessed, as well as two actuarial exam credentials, the job market in the U.S. has been very poor. One thing I never did in college was obtain an internship. It's not that I didn't try but I pursued the opportunities too late and did not succeed in any interviews I had. I pretty much have been feeling like this most of the time.
For anyone still in school, I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND you pursue internship possibilities for your career AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I was under the belief that yes I'm a smart person with basic actuarial credentials and a job would just fall right into place. Wrong thought process. You have to want it and you have to go out and get it. Don't wait till it's too late.
So basically ever since fall I have been job searching and even throughout the summer for the last two months I have been religiously applying for positions daily. The thing that makes me the most upset is that I know I have the ability to succeed and I know I have the basic credentials, but when you walk into an interview room with 30 people applying for the job and they only take 1 you better be the best damn one there. It has been very frustrating.
Luckily, I have not given up and just recently I received a very solid entry-level job offer to work in downtown Chicago as an assistant options trader. I was extremely surprised to get the job, as the interview process was very competitive and they only ended up taking one person out of around 15. I was invited last Monday to go see a baseball game with the firm and got to meet many of the other employees, all who seem like pretty cool, highly intelligent, confident people, with the desire to be the best. I start next week and am looking forward to the challenge ahead. Since I will be partially working on the options floor, I'm a little nervous but luckily the firm offers full training and mentoring for years so I hope I can adjust and learn well.
The new world I will be living in. The excitement!
I am lucky to have a very supportive family throughout this process. I have an older sister who is about 5 years older than me and is getting married this weekend. I'm very excited and things have been hectic. She's one of those really hardcore type A personality people so if things don't go perfect the family is going to have some serious emotions running all of the place lol. I really like my future brother in law and go to go to Vegas a few weeks ago with a bunch of his friends and a cousin of mine. Solid trip but that is for another time.
I'm am a competitive chess player and just recently I have taken a strong interest back into the game. I took some brief time off a few years ago but somehow got the motivation to get back to improving and studying. Since most players don't reach their peak until their late 20s, I still have plenty of time to improve. Right now I am a USCF expert, top 2% nationally, and have made it my goal to reach 2200 and become at least a United States master. While I may never achieve a full world title, I feel that I am perfectly capable of reaching this goal over the next few years.
It's sad to think how good I could have been had Black Friday never happened. I can only dwell on the days when I was grinding daily, about to enter midstakes for the first time, and getting slapped in the face with a big GG. I'm not a huge believer in the everything happens for a reason stuff but perhaps staying away from the game has been more positive, as many of you are fully aware of the emotional changes you experience and develop while playing. I just wish the government wasn't retarded and would get this straight. I have no desire to be a professional but I do enjoy regularly playing and improving and I do want to learn as much as I can and be a strong amateur player. I've tried playing live a lot a local casinos around Chicago but live poker makes me tilt so hard. It's so slow and I know everyone is bad but when your hand sample size is that low you can't sit with the fish long enough to know you'll get it all back. + Gas and travel costs add up. Still hoping one day the U.S. gets all this stuff figured out. These days you can sometimes find me donking it up on the NL 4 tables on carbon when I'm bored. I do however have a strong desire to play in the World Series of Poker and next year and I will do my best to try to get into an event there. I have also made it one of my life goals to eventually play the main event.
Well this post was pretty long. Just want to thank all the members of this site for making it entertaining. I'll give you the cliffs here for you lazy people.
TL;DR
-graduated in May
-love things about college, don't love things about college
-get work experience or your gonna have a bad time
-got a new job as assistant options trader in Chicago
-sister getting married
-gonna be a chess master one day
-want to play poker again, life WSOP goals
Do you guys think personal training is worth it? I'm looking at the rates around me, and they seem really overpriced.
I'm looking into it because I want to start working out, but I don't know how to do the exercises properly / with proper posture. It would be difficult going to the gym and not knowing wtf to do.
The car that FINALLY died (tranny went) was quite the car. She was a 1994 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale - aka the boat on wheels. Bought the car when I was 15 for 2500 off of a family friend when it only had 40,000 (old guy lived in florida - basically took it to get groceries and that was it). After years of a few hundred bucks here and there it has finally gotten to the point of the repair is worth more than the car, not to mention I was having more and more issues every 10,000 miles or so - made it up to ~167,500 miles which is okay in my books.
Cars I'm currently looking at is low mileage 2007-2012 affordable midsize cars with decent gas mileage - things like the Hyundai Sonata, Ford Fusion, Toyota Camry, Honda Accord in the price range of up to 18k - the only option I'd love to have again (havent had it in about 5 years with my current car) is A/C!
I was looking at hybrid's but the pricing and resale value is still pretty bad to where there's a good chance I don't make up the difference in price vs the gas mileage savings during the lifetime of the car. Not to mention the batteries would need replacing once or twice which is an extra 2k into the hybrid's cost people don't think about.
I'll keep you all informed on what my 'baller' ass gets. Depending on financing options I may just attempt to pay cash, but if there's a sweet deal with a low apr that will help me increase my credit score even more I might do that as well.
If you guys have any other options for potential cars I should be looking into as well please let me know ^_^
I just read through my some of my previous blog posts and really enjoyed remembering where I was years ago. Warningthis will not be a blog post about how I'm a millionaire now and living on cloud 9. I wanted to keep writing here so when I do feel the need to do this again I hope I would appreciate this blog entry. I've been lurking LP for years, only recently posting in the MMA betting forums. However, the first place I look at are the blogs because I have learned a great deal from a lot of them and the comments are usually pretty fun to read. Which leads me to my next point I miss Neilly. I wish that could would write a blog still.
So my previous blog post (abridged version) I just moved to Oregon had lived their for 6 months with my girlfriend. I took the firefighting exam failed it and then worked for Greenpeace before playing poker again.
So, both are things are over. My girlfriend Samantha broke up with me in Portland because she wanted to move back to California. I remember that being really hard for me. When she told me she was thinking about moving back to California, I remember telling her to do it. Not that I didn't love her, it was just that after my previous relationship I didn't want to deal with a back and forth struggle of should we break up or not. So I told her to just go, if she thinks she will like it there and be better I thought she should go. Well she did. And, I took it hard. However, I did not call her or anything like that for months. Well, 6 months later we talk and we're friends and she comes back to Portland. Needless to say she has been a great friend for 3 years. So word of the wise, when you get older and relationships end just take it easy and let it be. Takes too much energy worrying the relationship that just ended.
As for Poker I quit for good about a year ago. After being unsuccessful at poker since my last blog post, I ended up working for Netflix as a customer service representative for the next 2 years. The job paid well for customer service at 40k a year. I like a lot of things I do I decided I was going to be the best at it. I ended up being in the top 3% on the company and was interviewed and then offered a job in Los Gatos, CA at their corporate headquarters. They were to pay me 10k for the move and then raise my salary to 60k a year. I decided however that I really wanted this job as a "Student Coach". I got up to my last interview with them when Netflix offered me the corporate job. I was told by my friend who worked as a student coach that no one has ever not gotten the job after getting all the way up to the final interview. I decided I didn't like Netflix and declined the promotion. Later, that week I found out that what my friend said wasn't true. I in fact, did not get hired as I had basically bombed my final interview.
At this point I was feeling really bad about what had happened. I shot myself in the foot by declining a promotion to get a job that I didn't even have. At this point I was kind of lost and stuck out being at Netflix even though I hated this job even more because of being so close to being out. At this point of the story is where I meet Brianna my current girlfriend. We met at Netflix and moved really quickly. She had a boyfriend and before long she dumped him for me. We moved in together really fast like after a month. We continue to still live together today. She is a wonderful girl who finally lets me be me and I cannot get rid of her if i tried. I'd like to dedicate more of my relationships good and bad but I'd have to write a whole separate blog and this is already getting way too long.
So, after a while at Netflix I just started to hate it unbearably. The customers sucked, middle management was horrid, and everyone was miserable. I broke every rule got written up a record 13 times. However, every time the higher ups intervened and kept me because I worked 2x more proficiently then every goal the company had for the center. Eventually, I would drink and smoke pot every night because I hated having to go to work the next day. One day I walked in and decided I couldn't do it anymore and just walked out the door. Never stepped foot in the office again.
This was in fact as most of you know, pretty fucking stupid. I didn't have income anymore and it wasn't like I saved. So, I got food stamps. $200 a month from the state of Oregon. I then decided after non successfully finding a job and committing to look for one I decided I should try and get unemployment even though I quit. Somehow, in the end after Netflix fighting it tooth and nail I was awarded unemployment. I was getting $460 pretaxes a week for Unemployment. I at this point think I'm a bad ass because I stuck it to Netflix. However, at this point I started to get really depressed.
I didn't go out anymore even though I had loads of free time. I was hardly thinking and my days, then weeks, then months started passing me by. By the 9 month period of being unemployed I felt like a caged animal mentally, emotionally, and physically. I would come up with budgets to abide by, and then stocks to invest in, and researched different ways to invest. There was the whole problem that I was just on unemployment and was in a decent amount of debt. So, something had to change. But what?
One night I was talking to my Aunt who lives in Delaware and every year she invites me down to the beach house to live and work for the summer and every year I say no. This time I of course did my whole no Aunt Donna it's fine speech and left it at that. The next week me and my girlfriend are out at dinner and I tell her what my Aunt said. Brianna was like, we should do it. Let's live on the East Coast for the summer. I then of course had to take it to an extreme and plan out a whole long term plan on the east cost.
So, this brings us up to the current situation I'm in. I'm living in DE with Brianna. I'm an assistant swim coach for a club team down here as well as a lifeguard. And Brianna is serving in a restaurant. I just got a job in NY working as a Physical Therapy Aide and will be taking one more class so I can apply for dPT school hopefully for 2015. Brianna wants to go to school for nursing and will be getting her pre reqs for Nursing starting this fall.
I kind of feel now that I'm growing up a bit more. I'm actually trying to attain a career that allows me to be financially dependent and also flexible. I've found out from these past couple years that having money is important for if not anything but the fact that it allows you to actually be free. I can't wait to go to a bar with friends and worry that the tab will force me to miss meals the following week. Coaching this summer has also made me want to work in a job where I can slowly see people progress.
I have a lot of work to be done in order to go to dPT school. I hope when I look at this blog next I'm in dPT school or a licensed physical therapist and I appreciate this blog post. But, the good thing about life is that even if I did't go for my dPT I'd still appreciate this blog post. So I don't know if anyone will read this, I can't believe I wrote so much. But I hope someone can relate to my experiences this year as I have learned from a lot of you. Thank you LP.net, I love this site.
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