Pandora, Ohio in northwest Ohio was home to our family of 6 children. As a day laborer

my father struggled to support us during the depression and war years. Altho I was the youngest and was probably the least affected, it did have a great influence on me.

I am conservative, generous, helpful to the point of making me vunerable. Without support a college degree in elementary education was attained. Later in life I acquired special education training.

I have 2 grown children and 5 grandchildren of whom I am very proud. As retired teacher of special education students, I wanted something interesting to enhance my lifestyle. As a person caught between two generations, the silent Generation (1925-1940) a strong influence on my life and 1940-1996 the Baby Boomer generation I set out to find out about the internet.

"Fire the Boss" sounded so good. I could have extra income as I entered the retirement years. After buying several very expensive sites which were duds, I decided to try my given profession as a teacher. After all I had some ability in communications and certainly understood how to "sell" a product. But the internet became a source of great confusion for me.

First I did not understand the simpliest of terms: downline, upline, url, download, mentor, marketing, skype, social communities etc. I did not have a clue about marketing and could not figure out the system for reaching people I did not know that that hyped up promises were scams... Every day was a learning experience. After 3 years of failure all was turned around when I learned what it meant to market on the internet, found tools, stopped. trusting everyone and found some very good mentors who took my hand and walked with me.

All was not lost, well a few thousand dollars but a lot was learned . I would call it" on the job training". I could afford the time and the money as I had suffient income, few responsibilities and lots of time in between quilting, reading, singing, gardening, Unfortunately not all have the time, and money to waste while they learn. Some of our senior citizens have been faced with a forced lay off, no job market, ill health and disabilities.

Now I offer a service to not only seniors who suffer from arthritis but all who suffer with pain and discomfort of joint deteriation and inflammation. I go by the name Panda Lady and promote my products via http://www.pandalady.net I offer a daily tip of the day for arthritis suffers here in Adlandpro, on Orange Leads, and on my site. I offer a book store full of valuable resources, a live chat with people who have questions about arthritis and its effects. As an affiliate of Synflex-America I make information and solutions available to internet users who suffer from arthritis. The product is shipped anywhere in the world at no cost from home base in Holmes Beach, Fla.

Thank you for choosing me for the Person of the Week award. Whether acknowleded for contributions or not I enjoy assisting people as they learn how to use the Adlandpro Site. Several forums and threads have been established here to assist people as they learn to market on the internet. My hope is that the readers will not have to go through what I did, and become successful without the trials and frustrations as well as financial loss that I have experienced.

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Golly I didn't even get to vote for myself as I didn't know my name was up. LOL

Mary