Why Today?
I have no idea why I decided to start this site today. Maybe I was bored at work, or maybe I feel that I needed to put my thoughts on "paper". I am an everyday guy trying to make it through life just like the rest of you. I want to use this site to communicate with others that are doing their best to make a living for themselves, and if appropriate, their families. I have learned that at times we need others to talk to, ask advice from, and even lean on. I don't want this to become one of those heavy and deep thought places, but there is nothing wrong with us seriously helping each other.
I will begin by telling you a little about myself. I am married and the father of three sons. I have been working a public job since I was fourteen. I am now 49, so I have a bit of experience with life and providing for myself and my family. After all of these years I am still amazed at how little it seems you know at times. I started out delivering papers, then at sixteen, got a real job bagging groceries. How many of you have done that? After high school, I made a run at college (military college), but for health reasons had to bow out. I married at twenty and fifteen months later had a new responsibility in addition to my wife. I became a partner in a business and worked that for about ten years, then sold out and started my career in computers. I have been doing that ever since and in 2002 became a consultant. Don't let that scare you. I don't work for the big five and do not intend to. We have nothing in common. I have always believed in a different approach than these corporate body shops which suck budgets dry, create fancy power points to show their failures in a three dimensional way with the closing slide saying "but we have a plan", and so on. We may explore this subject in more detail at a later date.
You now pretty much know my story and where I am at today. There are a lot of stories in the past years and I will try to relate some of them to you along the way. There has been success, failure, sadness, happiness, anger, calmness, and plenty of stress along the way. But I always resort back to finding the humor in things as a way to deal with things in the past and to provide a positive outlook on the future.
Please feel free to let me know if there are things you want to discuss. If I don't have an experience that can relate, I am sure I know someone who does.
Well, we will leave it at that for today and I hope to hear from you soon.
Keep it real,
Garza
I will begin by telling you a little about myself. I am married and the father of three sons. I have been working a public job since I was fourteen. I am now 49, so I have a bit of experience with life and providing for myself and my family. After all of these years I am still amazed at how little it seems you know at times. I started out delivering papers, then at sixteen, got a real job bagging groceries. How many of you have done that? After high school, I made a run at college (military college), but for health reasons had to bow out. I married at twenty and fifteen months later had a new responsibility in addition to my wife. I became a partner in a business and worked that for about ten years, then sold out and started my career in computers. I have been doing that ever since and in 2002 became a consultant. Don't let that scare you. I don't work for the big five and do not intend to. We have nothing in common. I have always believed in a different approach than these corporate body shops which suck budgets dry, create fancy power points to show their failures in a three dimensional way with the closing slide saying "but we have a plan", and so on. We may explore this subject in more detail at a later date.
You now pretty much know my story and where I am at today. There are a lot of stories in the past years and I will try to relate some of them to you along the way. There has been success, failure, sadness, happiness, anger, calmness, and plenty of stress along the way. But I always resort back to finding the humor in things as a way to deal with things in the past and to provide a positive outlook on the future.
Please feel free to let me know if there are things you want to discuss. If I don't have an experience that can relate, I am sure I know someone who does.
Well, we will leave it at that for today and I hope to hear from you soon.
Keep it real,
Garza
posted by Garza at 6:49 AM
2 Comments:
Garza, welcome to Blogging! I'm looking forward to getting to know you! Sounds like your sons are adults now, yes?
Thanks for visiting my blog. I always get in the pool with my kids, but with three of them going in different directions, it can get a little scaresome! I'll feel much more comfortable once they get several swimming lessons under their belts!
thanks for visiting my blog, i thought your comment was hilarious..sometimes a short line says more than a long one.
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