Heaven and Hell...exists right here on earth. Losing it all can be Hell. Having it all can be Heaven. The American Recession hit hard in '08-'09 and it took a bit of a dip in '12. I am in exactly the same situation I was in in Nov '10 except there is no arrest warrant issued for me for not mowing my lawn and my unemployment hasn't suddenly stopped. But if I do not pay child support there will be an arrest warrant issued. I can only pay child support because I had my short gig with the Princeton Packet and I receive $300 a week from unemployment right now...
I use to make over $100k a year for over 10 years in advertising sales. Now...livin on scraps
I was taking care of my ex wife and our son, providing towards a home, vacations, and a happy family life except I always wished I was providing it and living it with my ex girlfriend, my True Love. All my ex girlfriend wants is to be loved and taken care of. Every time she comes back to me all I want to do is be able to provide and take care of her and I'm not able to do so. Now she has found other men that can, will, and have done that for her.
The new girl I'm seeing, her heart is coming, she sees something in me that I do not, and she wants to experience things that I have from a time forgot.
Every War Veteran returning from Afghanistan are all fighting for jobs and are having a rough go at it. I may never make it to the War in Afghanistan because of my cancer but there is a battle going on right now.
I have an opportunity to land a new job and work my way back up to the $100k life but I have to pass some serious tests. One is a 16 minute math test, no multiple choice, where I have to know things like, If two men catch 40 fish and one man catches 4 times as many as the other, how many fish did he catch? Umm...I don't know the answer to that. The other test is a 3 hr personality test where I'll be asked things like, Do you want to be rich and famous? Umm...Fuck Yeah! Is that the answer they are looking for? And they will ask me questions like, Would you like your picture taken with a celebrity? Umm...No, I don't care about the celebrity, I want all pictures and attention on me. What does that mean to the job? Am I a bad person? I'm hungry and ambitious is all I know...
This new job knows everything about me. They know I was in Foster Care, they know I have 45 college credits and asked why I switched from Liberal Arts to Business in CA it was because I realized I need to make money in life. They know my success in ad sales. They realize that I have had to fight for everything I've ever achieved in my life and nothing has been given to me. This company thinks I will be a perfect fit for them...but first I have to pass some tests.
If and only if I pass all these tests and nail the rest of my interviews then I get sent away for training and have to prove myself for 6months up in North Jersey. If I land this job and whatever girl I end up with all I can promise you is that I'm going to get the biggest ring that I can afford, I know there are men that can afford bigger rings and that have bigger penises, but hopefully it will mean something. Hopefully the ring will be big enough that if you fall off our boat you sink to the bottom of the ocean with the other buried treasure that no man can find. And I'll put my scuba gear on and come find you and then we will swim off to our island together.
Or I fail the tests and don't land this job and get hauled away to jail for not being able to pay child support and other bills. Will I turn to the darkness I did if that should happen like I did in Nov '10? No...because even in jail they allow you to write and maybe I can write a letter to True Love and she will read it and think of me.
10AM tomorrow Piscataway NJ ladies and gentlemen. Women, children, lives all hang in the balance.