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2/17/2023

As is true in all of my writing, I actually live the lifestyle I encourage and write about. All of these employment gigs I have worked over the years. Basically, for all of my life I have kept myself fed, clothed, and sheltered by working survival jobs of many varieties. Because of this experience, I feel that I am an expert on the subject.

Certainly, adventurers are one group of people who may well need to know and understand the concept of survival jobs. Everyday life can be very boring. Living in the same hole, seeing the same people, working in the same place, often gets very old fast. Many people live like this for thirty years and more! I have found them from California, to New York, to Miami, to Asheville and Elizabeth City NC, and everywhere in between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans. When one takes audacious chances and hits the high road wide open, he or she may well need to find paying employment quickly. He or she doesn’t have valuable time to muck around with redundant training programs, night classes, and college courses month after month, long hours at a time, and very wealth consumptive. Most of its pure Ka Ka de El Toro, intentionally designed to fleece people’s hard-earned money and create employment for elitist associates and their families, rather than any sort of realistic applicable skills study. Knowing where to seek out good decent paying survival jobs will always be of an utmost importance.

Thinking back, if I could add to the list of employment opportunities listed here inside this book, I would have to include union apprentice jobs. Here one can actually get paid while learning a valuable skill. Employees get pay raises when skills tests are passed during the classroom period. While these types of opportunities are tough to locate, and even more difficult to find available openings in, they are out there as luscious fruit waiting for us to harvest after a virtual forty-year hiatus.

The best news is that pay and benefits are fantastic! So is job security, since terminations must follow the rules of due process protocol. I have also located these opportunities in unexpected places, such as Hendersonville and Asheville NC, places traditionally unfriendly to labor unions, yet filled with citizens who well comprehend the need. In this case, this job included training for electrical work. Starting pay was 18- 23.00 an hour at the time. Other places to seek higher ranking survival jobs might be with seafaring companies. Seafarer’s International would be a good place to call and investigate. For those in love with adventure, there are always decent opportunities to score. https://www.google.com/search?q=Henry%20Lydo&safe=vss&vss=1&sa=Google+Search#ip=1

Author’s update

It’s been a little while since I wrote last. Life has been busy and hectic, as of late. We’ve certainly been a moving and a grooving! I’ll bet it surprises all of you reading something such as this from an elderly man, eh? The wife is going back to Ecuador in a few days. I must decide whether I’m going or staying. Presently, my lifeline has reached a dead end. I’m out of work, out of time, and out of direction, with few prospects at the moment, but such is the life of an adventurer, I fear. I can honestly see where I need a few acres of land upon which I may pitch my tent when these types of time periods arrive. I must live until the next gig, and being out on the streets or in the local homeless shelter isn’t any fun. It’s all a long story, but one I’ll surely share on another day and at another time. So, until then, cheers! See Ya in a few. In the meantime, check this out!

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Feel another move coming on, my book loving fans and family. Florida DON’T cut it. If you are not retired or in possession of a portable income, do yourself a favor and forbear on coming here thinking you’ll ease into something real and solid. The odds here are highly against it. Don’t vote for any political candidate who isn’t making the employment situation first and foremost in his campaign. Idealism left or right, ain’t gonna cut it here in the real world, where us real folks are scratching in the dirt with the chickens.

Saying hello

Well, we’re thirteen days into 2023. The Pale Rider is said to sit upon a green horse. How are we in our own time, to interpret this realization? This year, if I understand the information correctly, a green comet will be seen passing through the midnight sky. The color green can symbolize pestilence, but it can also symbolize money, in my own categorization. This comet has not been seen since the age of Astraea, and her return back into the heavens for the purpose of escaping the corruption of mankind. She promised to return one day in the distant future, when all of planet earth would be consumed by chaos. https://www.ancientpages.com/2020/08/01/will-star-goddess-astraea-return-to-earth-with-second-golden-age-or-apocalypse/

Already on day twelfth of this year, the much-aged uncle of my wife who we were living with, was cremated. He actually died on the second day, if I am correct in saying so. Many people had deaths occur in their own families during this time period. Might there be some sort of connection here? I’ve never noticed so much death before so early on, and I’ve lived through many a planting season already. The so-called financial experts do not paint a nice picture for the economy this year, but I like to think positive.

To me green means money accompanied by great success in all endeavors, and I want my share! Green can also mean collard and mustard greens, my favorite dishes when served with a wedge of freshly prepared cornbread. Say it out loud here to summons all of the positive spirits. I’m going to HIT IT BIG TIME, boys! I want a New York Times best seller, a literary work of long-lasting renown. I want a novel with a front paid out to me equal to no less than a fifty-thousand-dollar years’ salary. I’m trying, but one cannot accomplish such a thing without going through an agent. Landing an agent is no lean feat, to say the least. I’ve been trying for years and still have not succeeded. Its far easier to become traditionally published than to land an agent.

I have three publishers looking over some of my manuscripts. One has already accepted, and I’ve signed the contract. It’s called “The 10 Best Survival Jobs, how to get them, how to keep them.” It’s been published before but the publisher fell on hard times and had to neutralize the manuscript, and it’s based on my real-life experiences I have lived, and still am living. This is a great beginning for the year, from my own perspective. My Newyear’s resolution is to secure a dynamite career job. I have an in-person interview Monday. It’s for an entry level account manager at an insurance company. I can’t wait to work there! After 90 days or so I can make my move on starting up a true profit generating business.

Whatever value we take a calculated risk on, will be where our potential future wealth lies. If we want millions, sometimes we must commence with hundreds of thousands in potential wealth, then work our way up. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, pure and simple. Noting occurs without calculated risk. Relationships, marriage, college, cruises, writing and publishing a book for crying out loud here, driving or even walking down the highway, you name it. It’s all a hedged bet and a calculated gamble.

Don’t like your present job? Find out what you want to do, then make your move, relocate or whatever it takes to get it. Want to take a trip or live a certain lifestyle, then the perfect day and time is right now. There will never be a day in the hazy distant future when everything is nailed down perfectly. Something totally unforeseen and unexpected will always crop up, it seems. Do it now, when the possibility presents itself. That’s my motto. These are the words I speak aloud. Only 13 days have passed in the first month of 2023. Focus on the positives transpiring already.

Goodbye 2022!

It sure has been one rocker roller’s year, for sure my dear blog post family. Certainly, it ranks among the best of times and the worst of times. From a writer’s perspective, I have had an outstanding time, make no mistake about it. I want to give a huge THANKYOU to all of my reading fans. All of YOU are the ones who have made me, not me myself. Literally I have tens of thousands who make up my reading fanbase.

These past three years have been the era of the skull and crossbones. Let us pause momentarily and give remembrance to all of those who cannot stand with us now that we’ve crossed the line into 2023. In this year alone, in my own immediate family, over a four-month span there were four deaths. Two friends of the family, man and wife, died in a head on collision during these same four months. There were others who died, young and old, in the communities surrounding me. This past Friday a man I grew up with who was 49 years old, collapsed dead in my old hometown. It seems everybody I speak with has had the same experiences, so there has been what I observe to be an unusual amount of death over the past year alone, not even counting the two years previously in our dealings with Covid 19. Let us pause and give thanks to the good Lord in heaven for sparing us, since we are still yet alive in spite of this adversity. I could go on and on, but we certainly live in a true-life gothic horror era, complete with war, pestilence, tyrants, villains, and mighty fools.

At first last year seemed stuck in the mud in every way except when it came to my writing successes. The pace picked up quickly, however. I quit my head end job, hopped a plane, lived in Ecuador for three months, hopped a plane again, munked around in west central, Florida for a few days, hopped a plane again, mucked around in San Francisco for four days. Hopped a ship for two and a half weeks, sailed to HI for six days, then back to Ensalada, Mexico, then back to San Fransico. Four days later we wound up in west central Florida again. Isn’t that nice? On December 22 we rode away north to the Carolinas so we could visit a few family members. We had a real blast, but sadly, and for your good information, Covid 19 is coming back since all of my family seems to have caught it! Now its 1/1/2023 2227 and we are in King’s Island GA in a motel room on our way back to West Central Florida. Our time has been filled with cars and bars, planes, trains, busses and a few bruises, but we’ve all managed to endure to the bitter end, and it’s something to celebrate, don’t make no mistake about it. So, cheers for the stork who brings good babies. Cheers to the crow who brings bad babies, and cheers to the swallow who brings no babies. Joy to the world, and all of you, and me. Wonder how things will be in 2023! I want a New York Times best seller and to hit the jackpot. I’ll say it out loud! It’s been one wild ride of a year to be sure.

Today’s success stories!

I honestly don’t mean to brag, but years of hard work often pays off, and its most certainly worth mentioning. I have offered the perfect guaranteed program for becoming traditionally published on this blog earlier. Here it is again, just in case anybody missed it. I recommend the paperback version over the e-version. Somehow programing for the e-version was mucked all up.

Last week the manager at Labor Finders informed me I would have a 40 hour weekly continuous job post. I didn’t have work yesterday, nor do I have any today. Yesterday I showed up onsite, but the management there turned me away, saying he had not work for me to do, nor no money to pay me with. Since everything is online, the way my days run is such.

I arise at 0530. I go directly into this empty house where I have rented a room for 500.00 a month. I throw together a sandwich or mix some potato flakes and diced cured ham for breakfast. I make a cup of coffee, and I await the manger’s call or motor on down to the office by 0630. When he has nothing, I am at the local county library by 1000, when it opens up.

So here I am. Its 1136 at the county library here in Florida. Sometimes I honestly feel like a high-class hobo myself. I read half of the first chapter in “Of Mice and Men,” and I swear I can relate to the feelings of the two hobos entering the natural environment described by the author. I see the same hobo faces in here every day. They all spend as much time in here as I do. Usually, I remain here until 1700. The place closes by 1800, but its dark by then. I want to be back home by dark.

Like I have said before, I live the life I describe in my latest how to work, such as, “The 10+ Best Survival Jobs.” I ordered six of my most recent traditionally published books and had them shipped to the library here, with a note on the box informing workers where these books were intended for donation. There are many libraries here in this place, and I intend on donating many of my books to at least two thirds of them before I leave out. Should I fail to find solid employment, I’m moving on. I hope to make a grubstake somewhere. I actually like this town I’m in, but reality is reality.

I’ve determined to allow myself until February or April at the latest, since it will be springtime everywhere else in America by then. Are any fellow traditionally published authors out there wanting to join in my adventurous rambling, writing, and artistic lifestyle with me? Drop me a line on this blog site, then. It would be interesting to hear from others of the cloth. My wife may return next week. Her and I feel so much differently about everything, but then she is retired, and I am not.

Here are my latest two books. I had to speak a bit and get readers caught up on everything going on in my part of the world these days, so forgive me being so long with it. I have written it underneath what might be my favorite, and most popular pseudonym, Dr. Henry Lydo.

Backpacking isn’t What it Used to Be!

No longer is it a “last hoorah” for the young adult before settling down into “real life”.

This book details the Author’s proven how-to system for backpacking in almost every situation—whether it be short or long term, urban or wilderness, domestic or international.

Experience your life and this world to the fullest, because this backpacking guide has all the information you need.

Get it now.

Dr. Henry Lydo’s backpacking experience spans the majority of his adult life in both wilderness and urban settings, domestic and abroad moving from town to city, hostel to campsite, and everything in between.

Inside Survival Backpacking you will learn:

  • The best types of backpacks to use.
  • How to properly pack your backpack.
  • A nutritious and portable 30 day supply of food.
  • The best backpacking equipment to choose – and where to get it.
  • How to stay safe while exploring this great world of ours.
  • The 10 best portable animal traps in case you find yourself in a survival situation.

… and more.

Learn everything you need to backpack in today’s world, because Dr. Henry Lydo is sharing his secrets from decades of experience.

Get it now.

Nothing beats a good 44000 word western, wed with a realistic plot filled by rich intrigue and exotic mystery. Top that off with a grand addition of violence in measured cups, mixed in with a light sprinkling of sexual escapade, and one might cook up a beautiful novel well worth taking a bite from. When this work was being composed, the thought struck the author to go one more step farther, intending to make this unique serving irresistible; He served this dish up before a clear panorama of open, cloudless skies, cacti desert and colorful native tribes, complete with a mountainous horizon. The tin and board small towns, complete with banks, Federal Marshals, and safes filled with golden coin, really do make this unique dish all that much more inviting!

Imagine yourself, if for only a fleeting moment, on a beach side cottage porch somewhere, immersing yourself into this exotic world of “They Called Him Ringo Arenas.” Inside the American populous at large, there still lies a powerful adoration for the heritage of liberty and raw freedom these created scenes represent.

Another success!

In daily living our successes often seem small and insignificant. When we maintain a journal, we can clearly see where much more occurred to our good credit than we might have been aware of. We have many adventures, I am telling all of you, throughout the day. Your surroundings are like a stage or a story plot, with you in the center! In the end, when everything else around me crumbles into dust, I still have my writing. That why I am a firm believer in everybody developing some sort of artistic talent, be it whatever it may. When all else crashes one may then throw himself into his creation.

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Some rough stuff!!!

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I have much to speak of today, but little time to say it. I love writing, publishing, books, and other people who do also. I am here on this Sunday in B&N Bookstore writing, submitting, and posting. Tell me what you think of the poem chapbook above. Hearing from my fan base is very important to me. Truth be said here on this space, without you, the fans, there would be no famous musicians, movie stars, politicians, presidents, kings, and authors. From what I used to hear way back when I haunted his home turf, Andy Griffith might have forgotten all about you folks who made him what he was, but I haven’t! I could drop a line on much about ole AG, but not on this little writer’s blog. I’m shocked some person hasn’t published a book on it, but I do know ole AG was protected by some high and mighty people.

I must make a two-hour run all the way to Orlando at midnight. Its frigid as my ex-wife and raining like the floods of Noah outside. The wolf has no consideration for logistical concerns when she plans her flights. She goes out at comfortable, manageable times, but comes back in when it’s an absolute dog for those who must be there to pick her up. I wanted to work tomorrow, but I suppose I can do so on a pot of coffee, eh? Living on the edge can be dangerous at times, don’t you think?

Drop me a line! Cheers, and happy reading and writing.