Idiom Definitions for ‘Stick out like a sore thumb’

If something sticks or stands out like a sore thumb, it is clearly and obviously different from the things that are around it.

Have you ever felt like you are the proverbial sore thumb or the dog’s danglers?

I have and do….everyday.

Computers and the Internet weren’t part of my upbringing or education because being born within the baby boomer era, they simply didn’t exist!

As a result probably 90% of the people testing the waters and trying their hand in internet marketing, are below the age of 40 and have egos to go with it.

Hence sticking out like a sore thumb is part of being a baby boomer internet marketer. “It just aint’ natural” and many younger internet marketers don’t take us seriously or see us as real competition.

How wrong they are!

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Do you know why the phrase “sticks out like a sore thumb” came into being?

The obvious answer would be that if you have a sore thumb it’s probably because you’ve hurt it accidentally and because its red and swollen its far more likely to be noticed by anyone who glances at your hand.

Well. If you said that, you’re only partly correcct.

When we’re hurt physically we tend to favor the damaged area in several ways. The obvious one would be to protect it with a surgical dressing, bandage, sling etc; but what do you do with a sore thumb which has been hit by a hammer causing painful bruising but not breaking the skin?

You stick it out to the side out of the way to ensure it doesn’t get bumped or knocked again because if it does cop another bump regardless of how lightly….it *&%$# hurts!

Q) What makes a good boss?


A)

A good boss will send a Sore Thumb victim  home.

If you’re in a physical job which requires you to use your hands and hand tools constantly and you wind up with a sore thumb or finger through a minor accident, a good boss will send you home or depending on the severity, to a doctor or hospital for attention. But that’s not what makes him/her a good boss in such a case.

What makes a good boss is that he/she knows that because you will be favoring the sore thumb or finger by sticking it out, it’s then in a place where it normally wouldn’t be and is even more likely to be damaged more severely because your brain is telling it that it’s where it belongs, when in fact it isn’t and as a result is more likely to be struck again by something which IS where it’s normally supposed to be and your sore thumb or finger isn’t..

Baby boomer internet marketers are a bit like that sore thumb because we’re within a niche we wouldn’t normally be in and as such are more likely to be damaged because we don’t have the basic education that so many of our colleagues and opposition learned as a normal part of their school curriculum as children.

As a result we need to be sent home or we need to learn to keep that sore thumb where the younger ones learned to keep theirs when they were young…….or do we?

As baby boomers what we need…. is to set a course which has all the basics already in place so that we don’t have to learn them or implement them.

My introduction to affiliate marketing was through a course created by Affiliate Marketing Millionaire Mark Ling and was called  AffiloBlueprint. I can honestly say that I learned 80% of what I now know about affiliate marketing through that course and still highly recommend it and promote it but Mark and his team have  just spent nearly the past year setting another such course which alleviates the necessity for all that learning and the sore thumb.

It’s called “AffiloJetpack” and is easily the best such course available anywhere and I highly recommend it.

While Affilojetpack is not specifically targeted at Baby Boomers, I see it as the ideal method for baby boomers to get into Affiliate Marketing while avoiding the sore thumb syndrome so many of us have had to go through.

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The very Least You’ll get by visiting the site:

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without the sore thumb!

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