Q and A with a reader!

Sorry, not used to getting attention from OD again 🙂 so let me go backwards in notes about your comments…

Yeah, I was happy to get out of California (bay area). Half of my life has literally been trying to move from this town and this state. I managed to move away during the Governator era, and been blessed to live in Vegas during Governor Oscar Goodman. I left Vegas during it’s empire Strikes Back/ shit phase and back to California when I’m liking the return of Jerry Brown. He’s all about setting a good example of cutting back by starting with himself/ staff.

I am THE checklist person, so I’ll have to check out that book "Organize now." Thanks! I make lists, I follow lists. Ever see My Name is Earl? One of the writers must have seen me with my list, because I really carry around a list every week I have to do since college. (uh, many years ago).

I have over analyzed every way why I’m unemployed daily for the past 10 months, trying not to take it personally with many days totaling months that I have. It’s tough when you get no call back, there’s no input telling me what I need to improve/ do/ correct. It may be a chapter soon I’m expanding on in several parts. but I have done concierge at a casino on the strip, high volume foot/ sales traffic, served in a dozen different restaurant chains, including doing wedding banquets/ employee party buyouts, also on the strip, again the busiest volume of people. I have done all kinds of sales jobs, including 2 retail places, a drug store at the nation’s biggest locations (guess where). There’s a rat on my reference checks, somewhere. I have tailored my cover letters for each job I have applied for, containing a bit of what I knew about each company and what brought me there. I have tried my hardest for places I’ve wanted, places that were okay and frankly terrible jobs I wouldn’t set foot in as a customer. It does a big number to your head to not get a response to those ones.

I live in the north bay area, California. Statistically, it’s supposed to be "better" here for employment, but my transportation is non existent and the transit system doesn’t even go past 8:30 PM, as if there wasn’t enough problems. I have been an insomniac for most of my life (hence fitting in at Vegas so well). I physically can’t do mornings. I’d get fired in a month for being late.

Well, I pay attention to Canada. I have beliefs on why our tv stations don’t unless it’s comedians. I actually get a lot from watching the Chinese news station (in English!), because a lot fo people in this country live with rose colored glasses and blinders on and just see pop culture. and it’s destroying us. i have had a fantasy of saving money to save up for a motor home and travel, getting forestry jobs or some kind of job wherever I traveled to.

Whenever you deal with an alcoholic, they have to get the help, you can’t help them. and eventually you have to plan your out since they’re deep, deep, deeeeep into what they’re doing. I came from a town of them, all in denial. I even drank a lot myself and didn’t admit it. It was "after work" drinking. Beers are so cheap in Vegas, that was a lot of it. I thought it helped me deal with work. I don’ tknow now after being financially sober since September (with a couple of binges including new years).

Thanks, Black Haven!

It’s looking more and more like I’ll try to write every day of June, I think I have enough topics, some extra and I have to whittle what is the "least interesting" off. Tomorrow I may write an introductory.