It is time for me to deal with my severe achievement insecurity. Not much available for an uneducated trucker at my age. That leaves marketing. Real estate sales and finance comes to mind. My short term trading has improved to the point of profitability, but not enough capital to live on. The achievement part is reached when I can found a self-sustaining, not-for-profit, school for gifted, or at least eager, children. This school would sponsor children from low income areas and provide free mental health counselling for students and their parents if needed. As far as likelihood of success in marketing, no doubt in my mind. Any plans for yourself, you daughter needs denying dad?!
Not sure what the last bit means but she has squared away a deal to sell her restaurant chain, it's now "flipped" I guess and seems to be happy with her boyfriend who, thank the FSM, is not Amercian. Trucking is actually something I considered once, I'd got back from travels and needed to do a bunch of Microsoft and Cisco bla bla exams to get into high pay grade contracting. They accidentally gave me a full HGV licence when I first moved my driving licence to the UK. I figured study on the road for a year but as it happened, I lucked out and was brought straight into a good company with a high security clearance. Just IT, not anything actually interesting. I said long ago, find a smart girl who does not speak English and hopefully the year or so before she can understand you will insulate things enough that she falls in love anyway. I am not a naturally comfortable father by any means, when my daughter's mother passed (as a baby) I fostered her to her aunt, I went walkabout a few years. I supported her and got back a few months a year. I tried to make something work in California which is where the acting came in but never caught a lucky break. It's like trading, you can fool yourself a long while that luck will change. I didn't do enough core acting study and Tom Cruise kept talking the roles meant for very tall guys. Little bastard. When my head was straight, surprisingly still on my body, I went to a nice and steady life, full time dad. It's not awful, but make damned sure the mother is smarter than you. It's way easier to raise a bright kid, for adhd types like me anyway. I'd make the nest egg, and one day when you are not looking, you will recognise the place and person you were meant to be with, no drama. This happened with my wife, wish it had been somewhere with better food like Asia than stupid Colombia but I had no doubts this was it, I just knew and that was a huge relief. A guy in his 50s told me in my early 30s that this is what happens, and it happened. But it important to work on the parts that seek to externalise blame for things that were shit-happens. Once you flip that script, everything gets better.
Thanks for the interesting story. The last two years have been interesting. Feel some significant gains in personal development were made. Not so much financially, but am ok with that as needing a "Why" is much more important. Any thoughts related to grandkids? I've heard they are better to have first!
I can't see the video, but since you said it was a snark, I'll lob one back. The house apparently passed a resolution requiring public schools to teach the dangers of Communism. Ahhh, time to smoke a straight-grain Dunhill!
Well she seems to have decided to have kids soon, I'd never envy a woman trying to combine career and fortune building with kids but she did a Herculian job with the business. She knows that younger is better. The video was just Mugatu showing the model for the Derek Zoolander school. Derek protesting it was far too small, people are not the size of ants etc. Communism is bad especially since it never really managed to work anywhere, China now has an emperor again, Russia under Putin...is it really a thing of it cannot be found stable in nature? Now the US has fallen into a different kind of stupid, dancing with an oligarchic theo-fascism. Anyway, a relatively random meme relevant to smart and yet hideously slow learners. Buddy.. No, not really.