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And this! I wish I could still do the photographs. https://chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/5-poems-by-h-l-dowless-2/
Some of these titles are repeat publications here. The how-to information is not. I’ve had many successes being published in Anthology works and journals. Maybe my work will endure the ages long after my day, right? Such be the legacy I wish to leave.
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
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.
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.
My life here in west central Florida started out bumpy. The thought passed through my brain to go back home and move in with family until I get back up onto my feet, but I’ve lived here for the past month already. My advice is to resist all of these impulses in the face of difficulty and tough it on out. Look for the good in one’s surroundings. I certainly had much to be thankful for. Money was running somewhat low, so I signed on with a company called Labor Finders. I work a day and am paid at the end of the day. After the first week I had a full forty-hour work week. There is a bank growing in popularity in these parts known as Sun Coast. I have never worked with people who are so accommodating. I highly recommend them.
I live the life I describe in one of my latest works, “The Ten Best Survival Jobs, how to find them, how to get them.” https://www.amazon.ca/Ten-Best-Survival-Jobs-find-ebook/dp/B0BJLGQQPY This work was originally published by SF Nonfiction, but the company fell on hard times and recanted every contract that was not on, or near being on, a best seller list. They still offer hardcover copies for sell, and the work has a five-star rating. Investigate the link for yourself. https://www.amazon.ae/10-Best-Survival-Jobs-find/dp/1925979482 With SF Nonfiction, at the editor’s request, I wrote underneath the pseudonym, L Horne. Living the unique life, I instruct for my readers to assume, is a part of what sets my work apart from most of my competitors. I describe myself in my own blunt nature as being the real deal, slam to the blood and bone! With me not much of a middle ground exists. One either deeply adores me or hates me to the core.
The writing lifestyle can be a true struggle to maintain. I have been doing it for over thirty years now. Believe it or not, there have been times when I considered throwing my hands up and quitting. If I was to do so, then who would I be? What would I be? What kind of life would I live? Where would my resignation place my loyal fans? In the end I can’t quit writing. Writing is my drug and my escape when everything else is gone. I am a writing junky.
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Here is another interesting work I absolutely must mention in passing today.
Way back during the mid 1980’s, I lived in the general area of the country where this account takes place. The time period from 1981 until maybe 1988, was known as the Col-core Era. The label, Col-core, stands for Columbus County corruption. The true participating territory encompassed virtually the entire southeastern NC, and northeastern SC areas, however. I am utterly astounded no other author from anywhere has written anything hailing from that era of time. So, I am proud to be the first one to do so!
The Col-core era really was like a living true life Gothic horror episode. I am happy to have witnessed it. Loads of violence, mysterious people, real life unsavory characters, wealthy families living in very elegant newly constructed and old-time West Indies styled mansions, with connections reaching deeply into the governor’s mansions of both states playing favorites and lashing out at enemies, and so forth, performed a part in this era. Let there be no doubt that to this day many questions of the time period are still un-answered. Such is the gospel truth of it. While maybe a majority of these colorful characters who played an active part have passed on, alas, still yet numbers live to this very day. I speculate where this reality could be a reason nothing has yet to be written, besides the fact of no writer ever bothering to do so, I feel. Court records are tough to access for those of us who don’t possess high profile security clearances, and only guilty fools give interviews. Good fiction must bear a certain grain of truth in it, if we recall.
For most of my life I have been active outdoors. I have been a big-time hunter, fisherman, trapper, hiker, camper, and man of the woods in general. Back during the mid 1980’s, I was hiking, camping, hunting and trapping, to a great extent in this area. There were several live oak and Spanish moss sheltered wolf’s-dens off from the railroad tracks near the old White Marsh Depot, where outdoorsmen of many types met to socialize, display their catches, trade valuable commodities and information in general. I hiked and trapped one of my rounds, pausing there briefly before moving on. The people of the time and era there were most definitely entertaining, and half-interesting to conversate with. Most of their conversations were about long-lost hell raising days overseas during the Korean and Vietnam wars, the big fist fights they were involved in locally over the years, how many people were afraid of them, how many deer they had slain and how many dirty women they had laid with. Huge amounts of cash money supposedly turned selling swamp made white lightning and other contraband, also filled their lines of speech that day. Then of course, one topic of conversation among locals of the time period was this Col-core situation.
Local people there in this morning setting before the crackling campfire, beside the hotcake skillet and the tin coffee pot, had a version of reasons why this situation occurred differing greatly from the news media of the time. I have no way to validate any of their claims. There is no doubt where an overwhelming majority of these claims were outright apocryphal. Small grains of truth in other claims, had magnitude levels super-inflated, as is the usual case in these types of affairs. The Incident in Galloway’s Quarter is a tale of fiction elaborating from these local claims, first published by Rowdy Living Press. The mentioned characters are fictional, while other names, descriptions, and places have been changed to protect both innocent and guilty faces. Purchase your copies today!
A company called Offbeat Reads has agreed to publish “The Incident in Galloway’s Quarter” inside an anthology sometime in March, I think. I will post the link inside this post, so stay tuned.
It’s been a little while since I’ve written. Here we are wallowing around in central Western Florida for the time being. I expected loads of real employment opportunity here. Man, how I can never go wrong! They have a grand horse and pony show, so let me tell you all about it. You can just see the loving emperor’s great Thanksgiving and Christmas cornucopia of genuine middleclass opportunity all around you. This place really puts the magnificent city of OZ to shame! Although to be perfectly honest, I will say that I have yet to meet a tin man. All of you should come check it all out! Everything is so inexpensive here. I mean, single apples for only two dollars apiece, whole cartons of eggs by the dozen for only five dollars, men’s basic haircuts for $60.00, a price so low it will make you want to cut your own! Gas is a measly 3.60 a gallon, for crying out loud around here! When it increases its only by 10 to 20 cents a week. This place is an American heaven, especially if you originate from somewhere in California or Boston, Mas’.
Anyway, I am working at Labor Finders for the time being now. I can get buy on this and still take time when I choose to live an adventurer’s life. The beach area here really is fun. There is so much to do here, festivities going on, nice live band clubs by the beach to visit. This area has many book launches going on, and literary events. These are my favorite parts about it. I prefer the beachside dive bars, with the two-dollar draft and the 3-dollar hotdogs and hamburgers I can load down with slaw, pickles, hot sauce and onions. So, it is when one lives his life on the edge!
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The work below is an anthology of many stories published by CC&D Magazine. Be sure to notice the work by H.L. Dowless! Following this will be several more anthologies published by CC&D Magazine. Notice my name and story, then purchase your bulk rate discounted copies today! This story is a quasi-true deer hunting story, many years old. “A “Fine Day Inside My Hole in the Wall”
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Here is an outstanding Christmas story written by H.L. Dowless. This anthology carries part one, it seems. “The Tale of Gringo El Loco.” Get your bulk rate discounted copies today!
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Stay in touch with the publishing and ever-growing bookstore branch of SR&H Enterprises. Check out our company logo! The photograph is very real. The publishing company’s name is Rowdy Living Press. We have plans to make the bookstore an actual brick and mortar business catering to adventurers and artists as no other anywhere does, but can’t do so without you, our customer and fan base! As always, a big THANKS for all that you’ve done for us thus far. We live to take the grim falls, the hard rolls, and the brutal punches life on the edge throws at us, so you won’t have to! While all of you-kind folks, have the luxury of easing back into your comfortable beach cottage chairs and reading about our spaghetti piles and grand spider webs, we have to unwind from around us. You deserve all of the pleasure without the pain, would you not agree? Come on now! Cheers, and happy reading.
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Another collection of children’s stories below! All of these stories are some passed down by elders, and others born from the imagination.
The book below has an interesting history. More than 20 years ago I was employed in the Carolinas as an EC teacher for three years. The department head at the school I was employed at was known as the Witch of Drowning Creek, respectively. Without a doubt, she had a foul, bitter personality, and hated her job. Nobody understood how or why she chose to or even managed to remain employed.
On that note, my first day she seized me by the left arm, marched me down the hall to an empty classroom, rudely shoved me toward the teacher’s desk; then informed me that no materials existed, to include books, yet I was expected to instruct the students in all subjects or endure termination for nonperformance of assigned duties. I had five days to come up with something, she told me, and no materials could be purchased, since the school had no funds to do so with.
So, I did all that I knew to do, and began writing. I took children’s stories I had written for my own children, and crafted exercises from them. I got a week ahead of myself during these five days without students. When the year ended, I had organized them into this book. Not only were these stories and exercises used in EC classes, I also used them during my days as an international ESL teacher. One four-month summer abroad the wife and I traveled throughout Ecuador and Peru, giving lectures and selling copies of this book. It sold like hotcakes, we made it into the local news, and we recouped all of our traveling expenses in so doing. This work still has decent sales to this very day. Get your own copies in bulk for the discount, while it’s still possible!
My dear reading family,
I do apologize for not writing more frequently. Must of late, has been happening in my living and writing world. For one thing, I quit my work at the property I was employed at. The company I was employed with sold out three times during the year and a half I was there. This busted my retirement and my benefits back to the start. I also never received any raise. My pay was 16.50 at the end, as it was when I hired in.
My dear wife wanted to relocate back to Ecuador, since she retired in January of this year. I was game. I had nothing to lose, since my job was playing out anyway. I put in my notice, and away we flew. I think I made detail specific notes in regard to this earlier on. We stayed there for three months. We hooped a plane to Florida, hopped another to San Francisco, then hopped a ship to Hawaii, and had a blast the entire time! I won’t shoot anybody any twisted lines; we had a grand time!
Once everything settled down, we visited children and my parents for three weeks or so, then we motored down to Florida. We’ve settled in for the time being around central Florida. Come February, we shall glance backward, and if we are not contented with our lives, then we’ll jet back down to Ecuador. I know I can land employment at the best of academies then. Check my latest books out! I used a new pseudonym.
H.L. Dowless, author, entreprenuer, and adventurer 