This advice came from an Instructor for a Bankrupt Vo-Educational Place, known as Business Computer Training Institute. ( B.C.T.I.) which did business in Washington and Oregon State, on the purpose of earning Scholarships and Pell Grants.
--- Yes, I wanted to be another Mark Conlan, "A Success at being a good writer, and well educated in the realm of living with those with Health Afflictions." The Problem is he really didn't have a chance to see me grow up... after cutting off all ties, having to do with running some Newsletter that nearly killed everything I cherished.... like that Greek Tragedy, "King Midas." Everything had to turn to gold until he picked up a loved one.
--- Meyers Jacobson, a former Owner of a Leather and Levi Bar at Upas... took account that I've tried to make it in this world too. He has his own dreams of wanting to own an Airplane Museum at Maricopa County, Arizona State. (( He has a place in my heart ---- but I hope that he managed to get the plummer to remove all the mud from his upstairs apartment complex in Florida Street... cause chances are he probably had to pay more than his cleaning deposit.))
--- Jose Diaz, Hairdresser / Roommate / Social Smooze Hound... taught me how to have a sense of humor and what kind of "hell" a person has to go through in modeling for Photographers and Incredible Clothes. He reminded me most like GABBY - from Desperate Housewives, who had to constantly play a chess game where you must think "3 moves ahead, vs whom ever your trying to hang out with."
Yes... you do learn from others.
(( Those are experiences that you take --- as you travel elsewhere.))
My plan was simple enough...
(( Just learn how to understand Windows98 - get a temp job, typing text... have a life.))
Meanwhile, I found myself working at a Goodwill Outlet Store - and learning that in a Zero Tolerance Policy world, you have to watch people very carefully... and question what issues are truly yours to battle, and what are not.
Sometimes, in life - you will lose job positions. I even scored a 92, and could of gone higher on the Work Assessment Test, given by a Non-For-Profit Owner of the Outlet Store... if I was able to just take a correspondance course instead of commuting all the way to Vancouver, Washington and back down to Clackamas, Oregon on a work/ school day...
Found a job, working as a Security Officer - and that lasted a year !!! I was pretty proud as punch that being that Michael was suffering at home with his advanced spinal arthritus and he needed the extra help... and had to make a choice between a possible good career in the Law field, or be in the Health field ... and do what Mark Conlan did, as a live intake care provider.... and got paid by the State of Oregon for being a housekeeper / secretary.
---- Many, Many people were telling me that folks who lived in Southern Califonia couldn't handle the Weather, and the People's attitudes towards things we take for granted such as recycling, and the environment concerns that don't seem to be acted upon by those below the 45th Parallell.
I survived, and am now a Domestic Partner in Washington County. A decade later !!!
(( You don't have that sort of thing in California State, so that's two steps forward...))
In closing... another quote from my Instructor at B.C.T.I.
--- stay comfortable, don't overwork yourself... in order to appease others.
(( chances are you're hired to do a certain amount of production... and that's it.))
T.G.
