By Paul Rawnsley


Alright, so the Kalmindon catastrophe is determined. I know I've been swindled by a couple of very clever brothers with a very creditable line, it's cost me 3,000 that I coughed up for SEO training that I could have downloaded from the internet for nothing, with no chance at all of the claimed clientele that was 'guaranteed upon course completion' being seen. They were supposed to have a 'pool of clients' waiting to have their webpages optimised and they would just pair me up with the ones either in or nearest to the Black Country.

Of course the spiteful thing, which is the same for all of us who have been betrayed, is not the loot that we all paid out to the Brothers Grim, but the reserves we used up in the meantime. Because they allocated us a website of their own to work on which needed plenty of articles, fifty in my case, in the anticipation that a paying client was just around the corner and I could begin to get some sort of income. In my case that means that since I got on with the training in April I have been living off my own money to support us during that period and now here we are in November and it is nearly all gone. Fortunately, the cost of living in the Black Country is much less than it would be in lots of areas, but it couldn't last forever, and it didn't.

But, what I have acquired is the knowledge that I was not a solitary sucker and some bright people have also been conned equally so I'm not the only berk. The other is that I have learnt how to do SEO, something that I did not in fact know existed prior to the episode but now I understand it and really satisfaction from doing it. To me, SEO is the perfect job as my Mrs is undergoing chemotherapy at the moment which means frequent journeys to hospitals around the Black Country and I can go off for a time to go with her.

I had already been performing a bit of IT support for small companies in the Black Country but it only involved the odd call to attach a printer or resuscitate a crashed computer, not as regularly as I'd prefer obviously. But what I can do now is to mix both skills and offer SEO and IT support and hopefully get some regular business coming in.

But while I try to drum up something, I might have to see about a position at the Scottish burger restaurant or behind a bar somewhere although it is not likely to help very much as the first Mrs Izzard is about to go on half salary from November as she has been off sick for treatment for 6 months now. Which is of course another rather regrettable bit of timing as far as the cheating of time and money by Kalmindon is concerned.

So, although I'm not born into the Black Country I have found them to be mainly jolly and positive folk, and I will attempt to adopt that outlook since I am, after all a much better person than the excrescences who very likely feel very satisfied and clever at having done me and the others. But then that is probably how sociopaths operate and I am a good chap. So there. *Blows a raspberry!*




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