chjones!!! | ADHD Information
please clear your letterbox!!!
i did it, i did it....
have been a tad busy just clearing all up here for going back to Londinium Town....
can't wait to go home! although have loved time here in US but am
sooooo exciited to see family and friends and christmas and all.
so is great. cj
cj, when are you coming back??
well i don't know if i am coming back.
i have been offered work here for a company that makes adverts doing
their filming and editing (which i really enjoy 90% of the time) and
the producer is very sweet so that's nice... but i don't have a visa to
work here so we have to sort all that out and i am not entirely sure
that i want to base myself here either. the work is extremely
well-paid so that is an inducement..... and i love the weather in
LA and the crazy attitude sometimes - although there is very
fascist/extreme money-oriented mentality here and that worries me a
little bit too! i prefer a little more balanced society where the
govt is not there to rob and spit on the poor in order to enrich the
wealthy.
plus, i am sure i will eff-up on the job if i don't get myself some
sort of medication so i have to bear that in mind too because meds
aren't exactly the way i want to go right now.... and i HATE working
for people so i would rather do my own thing and have that freedom than
be forced to do an ad that HAS to be done and all that extra pressure -
as an ADDer i will likely let them down on more than one occasion in
getting the work in on time. albeit that it will be fantastically
beautifully shot! (although i say so myself!)
so lots of things to think about. but if i do come back ---- i'll let you know!!!!
and if you can believe it --- it is cold and rainy in LA today@!
might as well be in London anyways. yeah, i just can't see myself
working for a company like that but you never know - i could be nasty
and use them to get my visa and then come out here and put on my
theatre version of Venus and Adonis and never go back to work for
anyone! hahahahaha!
cj
cj, don't let the adhd stand in your way. I wish I could have a few chances over again.
take the job in la, try to make it work, you can always go back home.
at 18, I had a chance to drive an old man on vacation, his
wife died while on vacation, back home with his motor home, to california from chicago.
His
son and his wife almost came to tears because they wanted me to do it,
as they had to drive their motor home back.
and I came highly
recommended by the owners of the campground as a respectable and trustworthy boy. I knew them my whole life.
And I was just in a campground slot next to them on grad.
vacation with my gf in her parents trailer.
I declined, figuring I would get out there and then not get back
and something would happen. Or something like the old man would die and
then I would have to deal with that.
So reluctantly, they found a different person to do it.
you know what happened?
The kid drives him home. As he was there, he was offered a job to
stay as he had helped them. The job? well come to find out, these
people owned a tree nursery, and a tree farm. They raised trees to sell
and raised trees to pulp.
They gave him the nursery foreman position and he was paid 38k a year.
For gratitude....
Well the story doesn't end there. He meets a grandaughter of the
old man and marries her and then he goes on to become the vp of the
company.
The old man is since dead, and the son is still the ceo/president
of the company. A multi million dollar company. Who is next in line?
the kid.
And that was the story of the one that got away from me in 1988.
Too bad that wasn't the only story I have of things I failed to grab onto.
I stayed behind with my gf and spent the summer with her. I was 18. almost 19.
we broke up about 6 months later.
So, take the offer and run with it.
As we get older, opps don't present themselves anymore.
we wind up in jobs, obscured and then before we know it, were 55 and wondering where it all went.
Life, is like a river
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