The show must go on...
I’ll tell you it’s been a busy day today. You ever have one of those days where you’re just barely holding on and once it’s over you just kick back on the couch and go…
“Man…I’m glad that’s over. What do I have to do tomorrow?”
That’s how MY Friday was today.
And it all started with an eye doctor appointment. A “virtual eye exam.” Now don’t get me wrong…
…I still have to go into the office for this “virtual exam.”
It’s just that part of the exam is done with a doctor on a television screen. It was kind of funny.
The really weird part was the screen played ads while I was waiting to be connected with the eye doctor.
Yeah, the whole thing was that my normal eye doctor is taking more patients right now, on account that the other eye doctor in the house has been out for a while with illness (the bad kind.)
So they have this virtual system now.
If I wanted to wait for my normal eye doctor it was going to be a 3 month wait. No thanks.
The virtual thing? Got in within the week.
But yeah it was weird. Alot of this virtual stuff going around these days. And you'd think I wouldn't mind it. I do work on the internet, after all. But if I'm being honest?
I don't really care for everything being virtual.
I go to the bank and the tellers are on a monitor too. They aren’t at the building. They are somewhere else. Who knows where. Maybe in their living rooms.
But yeah I was sitting there at the eye doctors office watching these dumb ads, waiting on the eye doctor, thinking about how the world has really gone to hell.
It's like I've been going to the same eye doctor for at least 10 years, and I still have to fill these stupid forms out eveyr time I come in the office.
And then I have to fill more out on the computer to do the virtual thing? Sure, let's just pretend like you guys don't already have this information in like 10 different places.
What the hell's going on around here?
Lol…
Sometimes I think the world would have been better off without the internet OR especially smart phones. I mean…
…I still remember the world BEFORE the internet. My generation is the last to be like that. Generation X. The last folks who remember the world before the "digital world."
I'm probably being a little too “grumpy old man” for only being 48 but it is what it is. You'll have to excuse me.
I mean, damn it’s like every piece of technology these days is designed to make it to where you basically don’t have to talk to anybody.
Just live alone in your bubble.
“Hey Kam, how's it going? I’m Doctor Wilson.”
The monitor buzzes to life.
“Hey Doc, how's it going?” I'm snapped out of my grumpy old man mental rant.
“Good Kam. We’re just going to run a few tests here…”
And 15 minutes later...
They say I got 20/15 vision with my glasses. Beyond perfect eyesight.
I make a joke about not feeling perfect, and how I’ll have to record them saying this so I can remind my wife of this so called perfection, lol.
At least they were pretty friendly.
I’m telling you customer service has completely gone to hell since this pandemic happened. It’s like…you know how there was this filter that you used to have in public or at work?
That filter that tells you, "no, I better just bite my lip and be professional here. Keep my personal feeling out of it and do my job."
You know that filter?
Well…seems like nobody has that filter anymore.
They either want to complain to me about their crappy home life or their health issues or the vary job they are working at while they are supposed to be helping me…
…or they are just flat out rude.
But oh well. It is what it is right? That’s life in the big city I suppose!
I’m glad I work for myself.
And if I DID have employees? Well, I hate to say it but I’d probably fire half the people I encounter out there.
But speaking of technology…I was supposed to tell you that a brand new email content package just landed in the Epic Conversions Newsletter Club today.
Don’t Chat GPTease Me! Volume 2.
It’s all about ways to use Chat GPT without actually using it to write for you. In my opinion, ways that are going to help your business WAY more.
Clocking in at just under 10,000 words, this is a hefty set of emails and of course it comes with a nice PLR license.
Also the new thing I’ve been adding to the newsletters for newsletter club is audio readings (read by me) of the whole email series.
The audio series also comes with a PLR license.
So a really nice addition there.
But what was the point of my rant earlier in this email? Why all this negative talk about technology and the current times?
Well…you know I’ve always been a fan of that catchphrase, “The show must go on…”
They say it originated back in the 1800’s from the Circuses. Yeah, basically if there was an animal that escaped or a performer was injured…
…the Ringmaster would say that to the crowd to maintain order and to keep the audience calm and reassured.
But then it spread to other areas of life. Businesses and movies. Plays and Construction sites.
“The show must go on.”
And that’s kind of how I look at the modern times. Do I remember times that I liked better?
Yeah, I do. But probably so do all people who used to be 25 and now find themselves staring down the business end of 50.
So you know…
…bottom line?
It is what it is. The show must go on.
I guess that’s some Big Top Barnum & Bailey’s wisdom for you.
My newsletter club is a great place to find human written PLR content. Check it out if you are interested in that.
My newest offering, like I said is Don’t CHATGPTEASE ME: VOLUME 2…
…it’s all about using Chat GPT for your online business in ways that don’t include just having it write stuff for you.
Although this volume stands alone, it can also be used in conjunction with the first Volume of Don’t ChatGPTEASE Me! As well.
And with that being said, let me shut up and get out of your hair!
That's all I got!
Kam