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MY JOB SUCKS!

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Self employed contractor calls it quits

 

This lens is a no-spin testimony about changing your career in the middle of the road and finding the innermost peace in your mind, body and soul.

What if I lost my job? 

The jump...

I'm John, age 36 living in Southern California. I have worked for the "Man" ever since I could remember. I married at age 21 and found myself with a new wife and shortly soon thereafter, a new child to provide for.

Growing up, I was raised that the man is the providor for the family. My mother was a stay-at-home career mom. Her job was her family. Taking us to our sports programs, summer camps, school functions etc. consumed her life and she was proud to do it.

I figured that was how life is and now that I was a new husband, this was my life-job. I still feel this way.

My first corporate position was that of the job title, Operations Manager for a large company of which I was there for over seven years.I had an interesting boss who soon discovered about 45 days into my employment and still on probation that I had lied on my application stating that I had a Bachelors degree in Business. At the time of my ripe old age of 21, stretching the truth to land the "Perfect" job was no problem for me or my new family which I had to support. Besides, the salary started at $52,000 per year with benefits.

I thought I was in heaven making this kindof dough. Anyway, this boss of mine happened to have a PH.D and was absolutley insane about obtaining an education. Heck, I was just out of high school, played lead guitar in a touring band that I had quit and cut my long hair that I was so fond of. :)

So this boss of mine told me I was fired or I could obtain my degree and keep my job. I stated, "I'd love to get my degree actually, it was on my things to do in life list, but how can I got to school and work here full time?" His reply was like hearing a loud shotgun blast that makes your ears ring, "...AT NIGHT! you ^%$#&%^@&!@&^".

So after about 30 seconds of deep thought, I enrolled.

After about 6 1/2 years, going 4 hours a night for 4 nights a week, I GRADUATED! Now what??? A raise? YES! So I asked him one day, "Hey, I did what I said I was gonna do, see my diploma, I could use a raise". He laughed and said that I was hired at the top of the scale and the only way to make more money was to find another job and apply for it.

So that's what I did. Luckily, I landed a position as a VP for a computer networking company. It lasted 7 months.

You see, during these years of just grinding away and living everyday with an illusion that somehow I would move up the corporate ladder and raises and bonuses would come naturally because I had a drive and motivation like an F-22 Raptor, was just that, the GRAND ILLUSION!

But they never came. Someone my whole life had told me what I was worth! My father was an entreprenuer and it was in my blood. But I looked at my wife, my now TWO kids and hesitated.

Over the last five months, this entreprenuer spirit had just possesed me. I would dream of starting a company and make millions!

So one day, and not having slept for the last 48 hours, I gave my resignation letter. I FREAKED! After I gave my notice, I had the most frieghtening two weeks of my life ever. Doubt, fear, failure and the unknown plagued my mind. The manifestations of my mind were keeping me in bondage.

Finally, the day came, I opened a construction management company that took off right away. I became very happy and confident of my new endeavor.
I opened up supplier accounts, bought equipment, cashed in my 401K to serve as working capital, leveraged my home for credit lines and really started to make this thing work.

STOKED! That's the only word I had. Well during the next 8 years of self employment many things changed. I found my temperment getting very short. This is a charcteristic of my industry because more than 50% of your customers want services that they feel ought to be for free.

One day I woke up, it was like coming out of a coma and BAM! My daughter was 13!!!! It just seemed like yesterday when her and I were taking bike rides through the park and feeding the ducks at the pond.
These past years, I felt like I was living in fast foward. No stopping, just pushing foward.

In looking at our finances, it all looked good on paper. We were millionares according to our audited financials! GREAT! NOT!

We had soooooo much debt from operating costs running the business, overhead, not to mention that as our income grew so did our taste for homes and cars and toys.

All of a sudden, my health was an issue. Chest pains and dizziness became a norm. My wife urged me to go to the doctor. It appeared that I have had my blood pressure creep up from the stress over the years. By this time, the slightest wind could snuff the barley lit flame of motivation I carried. You could say that I was officially "BURNT OUT".

The market affected our business but only a percentage. We have always been diversified in our services but don't let me fool you, work did slow down. We would recieve maybe 100 resumes a week from other people looking for jobs. We have had MBA's willing to frame for us, real estate agents cleaning windows, loan brokers laying concrete. My hat goes off to these people because they all share in my philosophy that we must do what we need to do in order to provide for our families.

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MY NEW LIFE

Just a short while ago, my dear friend had saw how much of a drag it was for me to go to work. He noticed my attitude turn real negative towards life. I have always felt grateful and blessed that the man upstairs has always provided for my family and I but I needed a new gig and my buddy knew it.

He too was once in the business and felt empathy for what I was going through as he had been through the same. He invited my wife and I to his house and laid out some flip chart about a company that has grown to a billion dollar in sales annually in just 3 1/2 short years. It took Microsoft 5 years to reach that point.

He poured me this purple stuff and told my wife and I to chug it. Down the hatch it went. I threw it back like the old days when ordering a good old fine tequilla. It tatsted real darn good. He began telling me about it. What free radicals are and how they are the leading cause of disease. How it may affect my blood pressure because it has plant sterols in it. So he gave me a couple bottles to go home with.

We went home and did what he said. Within 3 days, my energy level was totally wierd. The only way I can describe it is it's like very consistent throughout the day. Not stimulant energy like when you order a coffee, it jacks you up and then put you on the floor with headaches after about 3 hours. It's like a constant state of alertness, mental clarity that I have never felt before which is HUGE for me, my heart palpatations have seemed to diminish and here's the crazy part...it has helped me sleep like a baby thoughout the night. My biggest problem was not having the ability to turn off my brain at night, so I would toss and turn, sleeping 2-3 hours, waking up, laying there, count sheep or meditate on music to get back to sleep. This stuff was like a huge shot of... I don't knnow how to explain it, I really can't.

My father, a type 2 diabetic, after only about 8 days, his blood sugar level dropped to a CONSISTENT level of 30 points under what he normally runs.

My wife, noticed the clarity and the energy. My daughter noticed the energy and the glucose in the product. The glucose is like a lubricant for joints and battles inflamation anywhere in your body. She has always had a bad knee from sports, her pain was not totally gone but her swelling went down tremendously and the pain level decreased alot she said.

Ok, so here's what we did. I went back to my friend and asked if there was anyway to make money at this. He laughed and asked me to follow him in his office. I did. He pulled out an income disclosure statement and told me to look at it hard. I immediately noticed monthly earning potentials that looked like major BS, kindof like the stuff we see in our emails everyday! He showed me a video of the upper management and low and behold, there he was, a past customer of mine.

This guy owned about 7 retail locations which he sold and his wife who owned her own successful real estate law firm had retired! I knew right there this was real. This is no joke because I remembered that customer of mine tring to get me into the business. He used to call me all the time until one day I told him to go away. That was a day I wish I had listened.

My wife and I have been in this business for over a month now and are seeing results that are amazing, not only with our health and well being but financially. We happen to be in a team where the upper management calls you daily for guidance, where they give me their phone numbers and tell me they are there for ME!???

This is too wierd, why would they want to help me? They are millionares already??

The answer is simple, it's about building a team of people that are willing to do what others are not. That is press on to achieve your goals and dreams and not give up. This has not been a problem for us becuase we get support, training which is all over the world, internet video conferences, everything to make you knowledgeable on the product.

Here's the deal, I jumped in head first and am not looking back, because this product works! If it didn't, I wouldn't have touched it with a 10' stick and risk my families well being on a bottle of snake oil.

The moral of this story is that my life is back now. I am not a slave to the grind, freedom and time with my family are now a reality and not a dream.

THIS IS FEASIBLE. All by sharing this stuff with your friends and family. You owe it to them for their health.

We need people who want to make a new life choice, one of hope, one with light at the end of a tunnel, one of positive results where you can actually earn more than your boss.

Call me at 951-326-5776, I'm real.
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