Post Recovery:8
John, dont know if you remember, but I was going to go to AAI too aftere finishing up one year at MTSU. Instead I went to FS in Orlando with my then fiancee. We figured up the cost/time and despite the huge lump sum it was for the degree there, it would be better than spending four or whatever years in Atlanta.
Got done there, went home for two months, family drove me crazy and I moved to Fl w/then-fiancee's family. I tried for over a whole year to get a gaming job ... I even got a postcard from Blizzard. No bites. Not even an interview. I made two demo reels.
When it came down to it, I was still sending out reels and working at WalMart so I could be independent still of family back in TN. CAshier, customer service, pharmacy.. then that brings me to this spring having worked 14 months for WalMart (damn them to hell).
I lucked up on an audio visual company that loves me enough to set me up with suits and overtime now and then and is closer to home. I work inside of a five diamond resort by the Atlantic ocean.
I still have my car, and I swear, I'm slowly fighting my way up the salary ladder to come up profit instead of loss every month. This was the first month since we moved into our apartment last September.
I feel lucky I'm actually in a postition where I can move to use my degree. Working at WalMart and dealing with people on Medicaid... it made me afraid I wasted so much money and time. I dont feel like a piece of leather stretch over a drum frame ready to snap in pieces.
I love my job, and my chances look good, but at the end of the day- I want to be home quicker than I can get off the job to be with my husband. That is what is important to me. If I come to some moderate sucess later in life, that's kinda cool. But I want to be a good wife first that can clearly recall when she was 21 and walked with her husband in the twilight talking about going to Ireland, the Quinalt Rainforest, Scotland, and taking up fencing one day.
Life is too short to waste on work and tiny ass apartments. Its good to dream and waste your day with someone you love. Go and kiss your wife, John. Friends and love are more important.
Got done there, went home for two months, family drove me crazy and I moved to Fl w/then-fiancee's family. I tried for over a whole year to get a gaming job ... I even got a postcard from Blizzard. No bites. Not even an interview. I made two demo reels.
When it came down to it, I was still sending out reels and working at WalMart so I could be independent still of family back in TN. CAshier, customer service, pharmacy.. then that brings me to this spring having worked 14 months for WalMart (damn them to hell).
I lucked up on an audio visual company that loves me enough to set me up with suits and overtime now and then and is closer to home. I work inside of a five diamond resort by the Atlantic ocean.
I still have my car, and I swear, I'm slowly fighting my way up the salary ladder to come up profit instead of loss every month. This was the first month since we moved into our apartment last September.
I feel lucky I'm actually in a postition where I can move to use my degree. Working at WalMart and dealing with people on Medicaid... it made me afraid I wasted so much money and time. I dont feel like a piece of leather stretch over a drum frame ready to snap in pieces.
I love my job, and my chances look good, but at the end of the day- I want to be home quicker than I can get off the job to be with my husband. That is what is important to me. If I come to some moderate sucess later in life, that's kinda cool. But I want to be a good wife first that can clearly recall when she was 21 and walked with her husband in the twilight talking about going to Ireland, the Quinalt Rainforest, Scotland, and taking up fencing one day.
Life is too short to waste on work and tiny ass apartments. Its good to dream and waste your day with someone you love. Go and kiss your wife, John. Friends and love are more important.
posted by Razorhoney | 3:54 PM
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