I’m feeling bad about my worker in Pakistan. He’s always sending me sales pitches and telling me how bad he needs money. He lowers the price quite often. On the round of work before this last one, he told me to just name my own price and send him the work. He said he’d work for anything and came from a poor family. I couldn’t do it. I took his last quote that he gave me before the one where he said he’ll work for anything. Told him that I would pay him that, gave him half the work, and told him that I’d be back when I put together the other half. By the time that I had the other half ready, I decided that I would take the very first quote he gave me, before he started lowering the price. That quote, I assumed, was a little ambitious for him. 

And I told you wrong. I remember now. I couldn’t put the work together and he kept telling me how bad he needed work. So I paid him for the work upfront and told him that he could do it when I was able to put it together. The total he quoted me was $24. I paid him $10 one week and then $10 more the next week. Then when I had the work ready for him, he owed me the work and I owed him $4. I told him that after he was done I would pay him the $40 he originally asked for. So he owed me the work and I owed him $20. 

He’s been desperate again, and I’m running out of money fast. I need a lot of very expensive medical tests and treatment. It’s going to put a massive dent in me very fast, in the near term future. I sent him a lowball offer and he was more than happy to take it. I decided that I would up what I paid him by 20%. So I told him that. That’s been about 3 days ago. He was extremely happy, but I’ve been thinking about this, and he is getting paid next to nothing. I had to think of how much time that it would take me to do this, and I mean this poor young man is working himself to death. So when he gets back to me with the work, I’m going to bump him up again. 

It’s an odd thing, but this is how I am. He was happy, very happy, to take my lowball. Then I upped his pay and sent him the work and he thanked me profusely. It seems like a win/win from every direction, and I think a lot of people would just go with it. For that matter, I’d say half or more of people wouldn’t have upped his pay 20% like I did. But I want him to get something for his work.

He will be overjoyed to get more money, when he gets back with the work. 

My little woman is starting a small business with the money I am sending her on the 12th. I care so much for her and I hope that I don’t end up ripping her heart out. I’m such a difficult person. I ask for so much out of life and it is terrible what this can do to people.