Maxed Out Credit Cards...Twice!

So in the pursuit of making money online over the last 10 years I have maxed my credit card twice. Online marketing is the land of high pressure time sensitive sales of guaranteed income in just a few hours! How can you not buy into that? I was a sucker for a long time falling for all the tricks but by doing so I learned a lot about online marketing and a lot about humility.

I first time I maxed out my credit card I was single and it wasn't a big deal. I just stop renting as many video games and paid more onto my credit card and even got a personal loan.

The second time I maxed out the credit card I was already with my soon to be wife. We were still in the process of getting into the financial grove of being a couple and the responsibility of that. In addition I had just moved to the city to be with here full time and I was job less! We had almost paid off the credit card and I decide it was time to make money online!

I think it took me only a few days to max out the card and I didn't make one sale! The last straw that made me realize what I had done was Google charging me $400 in ads in the span of 2 hours. My ad was show and clicked like 10,000 times but I made no sales.

I was devastated and the pain of telling my love of my life I had messed up royally still hurts to this day. I cried for a long time and she just held me. In the end Google retracted this payment because they have a guarantee that when mistakes like this happen they cover the cost. I guess their system makes errors like this now and again.

And I married this understanding woman, we made it through the hard times, and I try every day not to make the same mistakes.