Taking Care of Myself

This transition in my life is opening up my eyes, that I have not been taking care of myself very well for a very long time. This means everything right down to brushing my teeth as often as I should. I realize how this has affected me and the people around me, not only bad breathe haha but a bad and negative attitude. This way that I had been living was not living at all it was some kind of treading water or standing still, stuck and not moving forward at all. I can not be good to other people if I am not good to myself first. "Love thy neighbor as thy self." It says it right there in the Bible! I can't love others properly if I am not loving myself properly.
I want to LIVE the rest of my life not just exist and tolerate an unacceptable way of life. Already I am calming down and doing the little things that are important to feed my body, mind and most of all my soul.

I am taking better physical care of myself eating right, exercising, reading, praying, meditating and so on all the things I have been craving but putting on the back burner because of a relentless work schedule at an unrewarding, unethical job. My skills and my passions will be used on my terms from now on I have the chance to be who I am suppose to be not force myself into bondage. I am excited, relieved and so very happy to have this chance to remake myself or should I say re find myself.

See Ya Dave

So F'n Glad I'm Done With MCE

I always seem to need a push to move on to the next level. I am done with the crap I had to deal with at MCE that company was sucking the life out of me. They made some mistakes in the way they let me go and I am going to use it to my advantage. I will be off work for a while and I need it bad. Just now settling in to how my days will go and it takes some getting used to. I always felt that MCE was immoral and not treating their people right or truly living up to their contracts with the cities. They would squeeze as much out of each worker as possible and short the client in the name of money. I know I will be able to replace the lost income  
without too much trouble but first I need to get some things straightened out. On to the next level, oh yeah I am ready.

See Ya Dave

Older Worker Forced Out

I am about to turn 58 I am not a young guy but I am in great health and have knowledge and experience that is invaluable. Yet I was just let go at my job of 11 years out of the blue. As I look back over the recent past I can see the set up. There is new and younger upper management at my former employer and at our largest municipal contract that I was a foreman over a large portion. When I took over in that role things were not only a mess but out of control and no historical documentation on how it needed to run. The expectations and standards were raised much higher than they had ever been in the past. I know that my work had greatly increased level of service.

This is what's going on in the service sector especially. The older worker costs the companies more and has a sense of morality that is not always shared by the corporate world. The loyalty and years that most older employees put in to a company are not ever returned in kind. So I am not going to lay down and just take it I will do what I need to do to get what I deserve from that company. It is always darkest before the dawn. Day is about to break.

See Ya Dave

Forced Change

So it seems I only write on this site when a problem arises. I was let go at my job of 11 years they used up all they could from me and decided it was time to change. I should have been the one to leave quite a while ago. I have been seriously fed up with the way things had been going at the company for a long long time. It was 11 years to the day 9/11/2001 to 9/11/2012 that I was with that company. I gave them a chunk of my life and got no more than a pay check out of it all. Now the forced change, it seems I always need an extra boot in the ass to make the changes I really want and need to make. This is surely one of those times again. This is probably the best thing to happen in a long time and I am going to take this opportunity to step it up and be who I really am. Convulsions of life the uncertainty and mystery we are all along for the ride.