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Birthday passed, a big year!
7 years ago
Wow, holy HECK has it been a hell of a long time since I've posted a journal! In fact, ever since I've joined the Marine Corps, a big step of my life, and what used to be my life long dream.
I'm not a Marine any longer. Well, not one of Active Duty, anyhow, but I'll forever be able to hold that title. So I suppose my dream wasn't completely crushed! Though not all panned out exactly as I had hoped. I didn't find that brotherhood I had sought for, that sense of importance, sometimes even the feeling of accomplishment being snuffed out under a boot. But I've been able to accept it more and more as time passes and I don't believe I would have changed anything, it helped mature me quite a lot.
That's past stuff though, let's talk a bit more about the present!
This year has been huge for me. One year ago I was a manager at a Domino's restaurant. And it is shitty. Dead-end job practically, though I was offered to be a GM, and horrible pay, working hours, and environment. I'd hear people bitch and complain all day that they don't make enough money, or they hate their hours, or they hate this and don't wanna do that and won't do this and DAMN! They made MORE than me and I was their manager. I did MORE than them, but they wanted me to do more. I worked worse hours and more than they did, but they could only complain. A lot to shoulder and it was not fun at all, but I trucked on along.
Of course, wanting to get a new apartment and get life rolling, I needed to quit the job and, despite a bad shoulder injury, I was set to go into a factory job at Honda to try and pull in better funds. This never came to be though, thankfully.
One week before I was set to start, what I thought, would be a bleak career I was contacted by an IT company I had applied for 3 weeks prior. Note that I had been applying pretty consistently to anywhere and everywhere at the time, and had been doing this for almost a year and a half. But my hopes were dead, prior to this phone call. And just.... They loved me! They wanted to hire me as soon as possible and, 3 interview crammed into a single week later, I was hired on and looked at with flying colors!
This was so massively important to me. This was my second goal in life. The Marine Corps was my first and I had been Data in there. IT guy. Just... Military is a lot different than civilian world, we hardly use ANYTHING useful to civilians in there. Not to mention I hardly got ANY experience, but I had been hopefully! After leaving, a career in IT was my next big goal in life. Even my next dream.
And I had achieved it. Out of no where, as if by some sort of fate. I mean, let me be COMPLETELY clear, I was in a VERY low point in my life. Despite friends and my own cheerful attitude as a facade, it was quite dismal for me. I hated my job, hated my future, it was bleak.
Then out of no where I get hired into the career path I had worked so fucking hard to get for over a year. Interviews failed, calls not given back, employers taking on someone else or leaving my voice to rot. I had worked so hard and had gotten SO CLOSE so many different times, I just couldn't believe it. And not only am I finally in the career that I've wanted, I LOVE MY JOB! And they love me!! I've been very, very successful in my field so far and I'm getting constant praise, I've only been in for a month and a half and my OMs are already talking as if I'll be a manager before they know it!
I look forward to my job, as a bonus I even work from home. Finances are better than they have EVER been in my life, and I can look to do so many things I would have thought impossible just 6 months prior. Things such as buying a home, getting a new car, just... What a change!
It's been such a big year. And in such a good way! And I'm excited to see what my future holds in this new company. Something I'm passionate for and a job I can look forwards to going into for the first time in my life. I can't wait to see what I become.
Woo, birthday over!
I'm not a Marine any longer. Well, not one of Active Duty, anyhow, but I'll forever be able to hold that title. So I suppose my dream wasn't completely crushed! Though not all panned out exactly as I had hoped. I didn't find that brotherhood I had sought for, that sense of importance, sometimes even the feeling of accomplishment being snuffed out under a boot. But I've been able to accept it more and more as time passes and I don't believe I would have changed anything, it helped mature me quite a lot.
That's past stuff though, let's talk a bit more about the present!
This year has been huge for me. One year ago I was a manager at a Domino's restaurant. And it is shitty. Dead-end job practically, though I was offered to be a GM, and horrible pay, working hours, and environment. I'd hear people bitch and complain all day that they don't make enough money, or they hate their hours, or they hate this and don't wanna do that and won't do this and DAMN! They made MORE than me and I was their manager. I did MORE than them, but they wanted me to do more. I worked worse hours and more than they did, but they could only complain. A lot to shoulder and it was not fun at all, but I trucked on along.
Of course, wanting to get a new apartment and get life rolling, I needed to quit the job and, despite a bad shoulder injury, I was set to go into a factory job at Honda to try and pull in better funds. This never came to be though, thankfully.
One week before I was set to start, what I thought, would be a bleak career I was contacted by an IT company I had applied for 3 weeks prior. Note that I had been applying pretty consistently to anywhere and everywhere at the time, and had been doing this for almost a year and a half. But my hopes were dead, prior to this phone call. And just.... They loved me! They wanted to hire me as soon as possible and, 3 interview crammed into a single week later, I was hired on and looked at with flying colors!
This was so massively important to me. This was my second goal in life. The Marine Corps was my first and I had been Data in there. IT guy. Just... Military is a lot different than civilian world, we hardly use ANYTHING useful to civilians in there. Not to mention I hardly got ANY experience, but I had been hopefully! After leaving, a career in IT was my next big goal in life. Even my next dream.
And I had achieved it. Out of no where, as if by some sort of fate. I mean, let me be COMPLETELY clear, I was in a VERY low point in my life. Despite friends and my own cheerful attitude as a facade, it was quite dismal for me. I hated my job, hated my future, it was bleak.
Then out of no where I get hired into the career path I had worked so fucking hard to get for over a year. Interviews failed, calls not given back, employers taking on someone else or leaving my voice to rot. I had worked so hard and had gotten SO CLOSE so many different times, I just couldn't believe it. And not only am I finally in the career that I've wanted, I LOVE MY JOB! And they love me!! I've been very, very successful in my field so far and I'm getting constant praise, I've only been in for a month and a half and my OMs are already talking as if I'll be a manager before they know it!
I look forward to my job, as a bonus I even work from home. Finances are better than they have EVER been in my life, and I can look to do so many things I would have thought impossible just 6 months prior. Things such as buying a home, getting a new car, just... What a change!
It's been such a big year. And in such a good way! And I'm excited to see what my future holds in this new company. Something I'm passionate for and a job I can look forwards to going into for the first time in my life. I can't wait to see what I become.
Woo, birthday over!
But it's still great how well it's going now that you've gotten where you want to go.
And happy late birthday. :)