{"id":26,"date":"2017-01-25T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rattlerltd.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2017-01-25T18:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:23:06","slug":"why-am-i-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rattlerltd.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/why-am-i-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RESPECT MY AUTHORITAY – My early days as a Neocon Statist<\/p><\/div>\n

I didn\u2019t intend to start this blog with such a philosophical question, but if you somehow managed to stumble to this page you are probably also wondering the answer to this. \u00a0My name is Ryan and I grew up in an Irish Catholic family on the Westside of Cleveland, Ohio. \u00a0I had a pretty typical childhood in a conservative midwest household. \u00a0All of my life, I wanted to follow in my grandfather\u2019s footsteps to become a Mechanical Engineer.When the time came, I decided to move to an even more Catholic and conservative city in Ohio and attend the University of Cincinnati to study Mechanical Engineering. Colleges these days tend to be liberal cesspools that churn out social justice warriors. \u00a0This wasn\u2019t exactly the experience I had as an engineering student where most my time was spent at work, studying or building up my alcohol tolerance while I awkwardly hit on coeds. \u00a0My poor flirting skills never improved, but I did meet some radical libertarian friends that slowly warmed my Neocon heart to the ways of Liberty.<\/p>\n

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My friends are dicks<\/p><\/div>\n

Five years later I am a full blown libertarian working as an engineer for a Fortune 500 company in Northeast Ohio. \u00a0Unfortunately, my love for liberty and bullshitting abilities are not valued in corporate America. \u00a0I spend most of my days working on Excel spreadsheets while listening to Libertarian podcasts to drown out my coworkers Trump versus Clinton debates. If you listen to enough episodes of Tom Woods you will eventually end up with a website and a small business and this is how I came to create this site. \u00a0This will mostly be a hobby for me as I attempt to create another derivative libertarian ecommerce site but I hope I can provide some cool things that are not yet in the market. \u00a0I created this blog to go along with my ecommerce site because the experts say it is necessary to generate web traffic. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I plan on documenting the process of creating this site from choosing what items to sell to the marketing decisions I make. \u00a0I want to help anyone interested in taking this path with the hopes of getting some money from affiliate traffic along the way. \u00a0As I research the ecommerce world I only see success stories of people that just fall out of bed and start selling one million dollars of shower curtains a year. \u00a0I created this blog hoping that I can turn a profit with the site, but I plan on having full transparency so people can follow the process I am using and see if it is successful. \u00a0I may just end up being a starving ecommerce salesman who is working full time as an engineer and that is something I am ok with. \u00a0I also know that there are hundreds of libertarian bloggers who are much better writers and smarter than me. \u00a0When I do comment on current events I will be putting the focus on local issues that affect the bigger picture of liberty as I strongly feel liberty starts at home. \u00a0I will let the other writers worry about the bigger national events and what Trump is currently tweeting. \u00a0I just want to have fun with this and maybe help some people along the way. \u00a0Thank you for reading and following my journey.<\/p>\n

In liberty,<\/span>
\nRyan <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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