About 4 months ago I was no longer employed at a job, which I assumed, would be my career for many years. I am currently in a search for employment that I hope will land me something that is both financially thriving and personally satisfying. Now first off anyone who knows me knows that I am not exactly the corporate type. Before you go getting your panties in a bunch and face all scrunched up let me explain my definition of the corporate type. The corporate type is someone who is satisfied sitting in an office/cubicle and punching numbers or whatever for someone else's company. Now I would have no problem doing such if the business was mine or I at least had a large stake in it.
Now with my recent job (let me take the time to also define job and career. Job: pays bills and keeps you off the street. Allows you luxuries such as steady food, leased transportation and your able to go wild in TJ Max, Tarshay {Target}, and Ross. Career: pays bills, however comes with benefits-and I don't mean the benefit of taking home office supplies so your cheap ass doesn't have to buy your kids real school supplies, ain't no reason anyone under 13 should be in school using a legal pad and not a notebook!- the ability to keep a packed fridge but also the luxuries of going out to eat at places that are not fast food, Purchase a car –or at least make payments toward owning- and the possibility of saying fuck shopping I am getting my shit tailored!) I have had my first taste of a real office job and let me tell ya no sir I don't like it! I yearn for something more and want the freedom to not be trapped by four walls all day long.
So I guess this is more of a PSA than a blog today. I want to let anyone out there who is reading this especially those just getting into college that you need to SERIOUSLY do a self evaluation and find what it is that keeps that fire in your heart and gets you waking up in the morning feeling energized and excited by what the day will offer. Stop listening to your parents and friends about what they think will be good for you and actually figure it out for yourself! Like take me, I am a 26 year old black male with a college degree, a tremendously sensible head on my shoulders, handsome as the day is long, and I have no kids or other attachments…to sum it up I am one of Americas hottest commodity's however through my own fault I went to school and got a degree that was worth getting, but hasn't presented me with the opportunity's to break into the industries that I truly have a passion for. Like jeezy say's "The world is yours and everything in it it's out there, get on your grind and get it (ay)" but realize you do have to grind, anything giving to you without work is never gone prove to be as valuable as something you worked for…proof positive think of how many lotto winners you see who blow there money in a couple years living like they are superstars. Also check this documentary on Showtime, I can't recall the name but it is about this homeless guy who is giving 100 grand and they follow him to see how his life will change and what decisions he will make. Its really interesting to see how someone who has nothings mind works when giving what in the great skeam of things is not that much money, but it had the possibilities to create a great foundation for him. Long story short after the drug spree and other bs he tried to do right and move back where his family was from but wound up blowing his money cars (ya this dick actually bout 2 cars!), NB's (nasty broads- I understand that as a homeless man, getting any was a good thing but man some of these chicks looked like they got jumped by a tribe of woodsmen who beat them with ugly sticks) and had blown his whole wad (no pun intended) within 6-7 months.
Another valuable lesson I learned from my short time here is that money is not as big a motivator as I thought it was. Now let me not get it twisted I LOVE MONEY and want to make lots of it in my lifetime, however it is not a huge motivator in my job decisions. In the summer of 01 myself two of my closets friends and my then girlfriend emabarked on what I now shall call the trip of enlightenment, a trip that would see us drive from Miami to Missouri and back. Over this month or so long journey I was caught with my hands or shall I say mouth literally in the "Cookie Jar" by my lady's father, witch ultimately lead to the demise of my first and only relationship in life (but that's another story another time) and I also learned that money was not a major motivator in my job selections. OK so first u must understand that my ex's father sold us (being me and my homebois) the dream of coming to Missouri for the summer and getting some construction jobs to anti up a lil cash of the summer…cool. However when we got there no jobs where lined up and we begin to have to search for jobs ourselves which may have not been the worst thing but since her father was old school he had us getting up at like 5:30 when he went to work and going out to search for these jobs which seemed non existent. So after a few weeks, the departing of one of my bois and the painting of her brother's apartment building which was in Kansas City, we landed a $23 dollar an hour construction job! At the time we thought we had made it but soon found out how trying a job can be. On the first day there we found out we were the cleanup crew on the site of a new school they are building…cool. We did not know that cleanup also included outside and along the perimeter of this new school that was basically constructed in the middle of the woods, so needless to say the "creatures" were rampid. Now I don't consider myself in anyway shape or form a punk, but there are 3 things that just give me the heebeegeebee's…Rodents, Roaches and Frog's/Toads and as you can imagine all of these animals were happily nestled in the areas surrounding the school. This alone was enough to truly make us give up on the job, but three days into it when my homeboi got stuck in the face by a Wasp it was time to call it quits and from that day on I vowed that I would factor more into my job decision making than money. If money can get you past the boredom of a job then by all means let money be your motivator, but be honest with yourself cause money aint shit if you have nothing/no one to spend it on (this is where keenan Ivory wayans pops his head in and screams MESSAGE.)
Be Easy
Be Safe
Be Cool ENT.
PS- I am open to any job offer suggestions that anyone has and can send a resume at the drop of a dime, please help a brother out.
PSS- "Aint no shame in charity" so I do take donations for my entertainment company (Be Cool Entertainment Ventures) at anytime send checks and money orders C/O Ian Adams to po box 190263 Miami Beach, Fl 33119 J
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