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6 years ago
Give me fuel! Give me fire! Give that which I desire! How's it going everyone? Hope you all are doing well.
Thought I'd give you all some updates on where I've been and what I've been up to.
Now for where I've been, I've been home geographically, but busy. Don't know if I've mentioned it in a journal, but I've mentioned it a few times on Twitter about getting a new position at work, one I've been working towards for a little while now and have attempted to obtain a couple times. Up until recently I've been working more in the warehouse/packaging department of my current job, but have been trying to become a salesman. Think Darryl from The Office getting promoted. I think on my third try I made a high enough score on the test (which was primarily automotive/suspension oriented) to get my foot in the door. Seeing as I've been around cars and even went to school for it, it only seems like a natural progression I get the position, but times before I have a feeling had a bit of favoritism to do with it. Not saying I didn't pull some strings myself, but you gotta do what you gotta do. I'm about a month in now and things seem to be going well, having to learn a lot of ins and outs of the business I didn't know about nor were part of the process seeing as I hadn't been trained in them, like working with the system our company uses to keep inventory, process orders, so on and so forth, which has been one of the major hurtles.
That's been one big thing taking up my time, but also life in general. Between trying to hangout with friends/family to keep a healthy relationship with them, I also still have obligations with the local organization I volunteer for and with, and with recent happenings of more senior members deciding to resign because of health reasons, I've heard talk of other members lobbying for me to take on one of the positions which means even more responsibilities being shoveled onto me. Not much of a leader myself, but as long as someone can give me guidance on what is needed to be done then I'm more than willing to do it, I'm just not sure if that's the way things are or will go. Only time will tell. It's not even really a spot I'd want or volunteer for, but as a member who's been there since he was fifteen years old (am 26 now, so been there over ten years) I feel as though my time to become someone of importance was inevitable.
As for future plans in the fandom, I plan on staying in it, though I'm really considering slowing down on art, as I've already done for the most part as you all might have noticed, in which I do apologize for. Am I gonna stop all together? No, I do plan on still getting art, just...in a more picky manner. This is mainly due to finances and trying to get my money right, seeing as I want to elevate my living situation, in which this new position at work will help tremendously, but, not without proper budgeting. I'm also wanting to get into more automotive projects, like the Ford Ranger I've had sitting in my backyard for...a couple years now? But I'm wanting to put a 2011 or up Mustang GT drive train in and hoon around, preferably autocross, I'd LOVE to be able to do that. Plus, coming from a family that's had a history of racing and a love for cars, it kind of sucks not having one of my own to tinker with or drive. I'd also like to do it as a somewhat project with my father, who I've gotten a lot of my car knowledge of love for motorsports from.
As for cons? I do plan on still attending, but scaling back a tad bit. I've more or less already decided to cut IFC from my roster of regular cons, mainly for personal reasons as to what happened the most previous one. Another reason being it's usually been the weekend before MFM and...doing two cons back to back is a giant pain in the ass. Not to say I didn't like going to them, but it's a mad rush to do one, then get ready for one the next weekend. Maybe at some point I'll go again, but not in the near future. As far as cons I plan on going to, I have requests...and I stress the word request for certain reasons in which I will soon explain, for the days off for GFM, MFM, and MFF. Now why I say request is because the new department I'm apart has some fucky rule about vacation time, one being about not having more than two people in the department being off at the same time, the more senior getting priority than people who aren't. Now I've been at the company for roughly four and a half years so I have a small bit of seniority, but there are guys over there knocking on twelve and thirteen years, so who knows what will happen. The only real dates I have planned I'm worried about is the ones for MFM, mainly because it falls on a holiday weekend.
Now I can't think of anything else at the moment to write that might adhere to this post as far as updating, other than what has already been stated. So to wrap it up I'd like to wish everyone a very happy new, hope you all survived it alright and woke up with little to no hangover. I think this officially marks my tenth real serious year in the fandom so...here's to ten more?
Wait...does that make me a grey muzzle now? :D
Thought I'd give you all some updates on where I've been and what I've been up to.
Now for where I've been, I've been home geographically, but busy. Don't know if I've mentioned it in a journal, but I've mentioned it a few times on Twitter about getting a new position at work, one I've been working towards for a little while now and have attempted to obtain a couple times. Up until recently I've been working more in the warehouse/packaging department of my current job, but have been trying to become a salesman. Think Darryl from The Office getting promoted. I think on my third try I made a high enough score on the test (which was primarily automotive/suspension oriented) to get my foot in the door. Seeing as I've been around cars and even went to school for it, it only seems like a natural progression I get the position, but times before I have a feeling had a bit of favoritism to do with it. Not saying I didn't pull some strings myself, but you gotta do what you gotta do. I'm about a month in now and things seem to be going well, having to learn a lot of ins and outs of the business I didn't know about nor were part of the process seeing as I hadn't been trained in them, like working with the system our company uses to keep inventory, process orders, so on and so forth, which has been one of the major hurtles.
That's been one big thing taking up my time, but also life in general. Between trying to hangout with friends/family to keep a healthy relationship with them, I also still have obligations with the local organization I volunteer for and with, and with recent happenings of more senior members deciding to resign because of health reasons, I've heard talk of other members lobbying for me to take on one of the positions which means even more responsibilities being shoveled onto me. Not much of a leader myself, but as long as someone can give me guidance on what is needed to be done then I'm more than willing to do it, I'm just not sure if that's the way things are or will go. Only time will tell. It's not even really a spot I'd want or volunteer for, but as a member who's been there since he was fifteen years old (am 26 now, so been there over ten years) I feel as though my time to become someone of importance was inevitable.
As for future plans in the fandom, I plan on staying in it, though I'm really considering slowing down on art, as I've already done for the most part as you all might have noticed, in which I do apologize for. Am I gonna stop all together? No, I do plan on still getting art, just...in a more picky manner. This is mainly due to finances and trying to get my money right, seeing as I want to elevate my living situation, in which this new position at work will help tremendously, but, not without proper budgeting. I'm also wanting to get into more automotive projects, like the Ford Ranger I've had sitting in my backyard for...a couple years now? But I'm wanting to put a 2011 or up Mustang GT drive train in and hoon around, preferably autocross, I'd LOVE to be able to do that. Plus, coming from a family that's had a history of racing and a love for cars, it kind of sucks not having one of my own to tinker with or drive. I'd also like to do it as a somewhat project with my father, who I've gotten a lot of my car knowledge of love for motorsports from.
As for cons? I do plan on still attending, but scaling back a tad bit. I've more or less already decided to cut IFC from my roster of regular cons, mainly for personal reasons as to what happened the most previous one. Another reason being it's usually been the weekend before MFM and...doing two cons back to back is a giant pain in the ass. Not to say I didn't like going to them, but it's a mad rush to do one, then get ready for one the next weekend. Maybe at some point I'll go again, but not in the near future. As far as cons I plan on going to, I have requests...and I stress the word request for certain reasons in which I will soon explain, for the days off for GFM, MFM, and MFF. Now why I say request is because the new department I'm apart has some fucky rule about vacation time, one being about not having more than two people in the department being off at the same time, the more senior getting priority than people who aren't. Now I've been at the company for roughly four and a half years so I have a small bit of seniority, but there are guys over there knocking on twelve and thirteen years, so who knows what will happen. The only real dates I have planned I'm worried about is the ones for MFM, mainly because it falls on a holiday weekend.
Now I can't think of anything else at the moment to write that might adhere to this post as far as updating, other than what has already been stated. So to wrap it up I'd like to wish everyone a very happy new, hope you all survived it alright and woke up with little to no hangover. I think this officially marks my tenth real serious year in the fandom so...here's to ten more?
Wait...does that make me a grey muzzle now? :D
