Reply #4: You wrote "Long story" but I would prefer a longer story.

[Boojatta]

I am now almost 60 years of age and have never held a paycheck job - ever.

You described what you didn't do. Can you say more about what you did do: your system, your strategies, your methods? Or is this a situation where people wish to know, and ask to be told, but will claw back their appreciation as soon as you grant them their wish?

Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it, after all."

"I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' (Everything unknown is taken for magnificent)