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Well, I’m no maddox, but I have to say, this article on Kuro5hin brings tears of joy to my eyes.

About a year and a half ago, I quit my day job as a programmer and started burning through my savings (and at the end, borrowing money from family) in a quest to work for myself by making my own websites.

15 months later, I have one fairly successful website, a half-dozen or so failed websites, a bunch of debt, ruined credit and I’m back working for the man. For all you would-be webmasters out there, here’s my $25,000 dollar lesson.

Fortunately for you, dear reader, the pearls of wisdom subsequently imparted by this human paraquat can be summarized quite succinctly: “don’t be a complete f—ing retard”. The irony of course is that those who might most profit from such a lesson are the very same individuals who are by definition incapable of learning it.