Nothing Special

Hello all!
This part of the Whateverlution...is all about me. Call it an ongoing ever changing 'about the author' Dane Cook once said...A suicide note written by someone who is not suicidal is called an autobiography.

So what gives me the ability to speak out about the world? Why should anyone listen when I tell them about fitness, gaming, intellectual pursuits, the sociological ramifications of current world politics, and gummy worms?

Well that's something you're going to have to learn as you go. However if you want credentials, allow me to fill in a bit of my resume.

At 34 I have collected paychecks from over 30 different employers. I have built million dollar homes, I have driven a front end loader through mountains of trash, I've been to basic training and enjoyed some peace time national guard time, I've worked for restaurants, retail chains, and convenient stores and been a substitute teacher. However I have also spent over five years as a guard at a county jail AND 30 days as an inmate at a different county jail. (For CIVIL CONTEMPT-I couldn't afford to pay ALIMONY, and was subsequently put in jail, which caused me to lose my job with the Sheriff's Department)

My education involves an Associates degree, and 90 credits towards a BS in Mental Health and Human services, as well as a healthy interest in reference literature. School and I have never gotten along, I find it too rigid and constraining, I can learn more on my own.

The only things I know for sure...I've been pretty good at just about every job I've ever had. The closest to a job I actually liked was as a guard. I'm a people watcher and psychological dynamics fascinate me, plus I'm an adrenaline junkie and at the time thrived amidst the crazy fights, hangings, cut-ups etc etc. That being said I now have to pursue a different career, and this blog circle is part of it. It's a social and personal experiment. I know that everywhere I've gone, people tend to remember me. However despite being a quick learner, and intelligent and well-spoken, something seems to be holding me back. So I am now hoping to work from that into something here, maybe a job, maybe a career, maybe pocket money, time will tell.

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Madness afoot

I wish there were a way to put to words and adequately describe this feeling. I am(not) fully in control. My mind is bereft. I should be tired, I suppose, my schedule has been jarred, I have been financially accosted, and now I find myself overwhelmed, faced with a tough series of circumstances, with narrow, but very feasible margins for success. I have been living in this too close for comfort, no safety, place for too many years. I shield my son, yet here I am at one thirty AM, I could no sooner sleep, than rest, or feel good about myself or anything around me. I know I will get by, I know there is a way for me to have success. However my other options are radically and tragically, diminishing. I am lonely, intensely so, yet could no sooner tolerate another entity in my sphere than properly show that love that I have dabbled successfully with in the past. It's like a coil inside that slowly becomes more assertive. You can't stop it, but it doesn't have everything yet, and despite considerable levels of resourcefulness there is a distinct possibility that control and normalcy will get less and less frequent, and I have no idea what that will look or feel like.
I realistically probably need help, but my day to day life is such an intense balancing act of ability, inability, careful discipline, and pitfalls of apathy that the act of getting help would cause considerable stress to a system that can't handle much more. I need to increase stability before I can get help, which may not be realistic without getting help. The problem with my insanity is that I am generally reasonably sound. I know my capabilities, I am good about time management, and can mitigate financial and unexpected issues fairly well. The illness, the poison; is the isolation, social dysfunction, and distrust that continues to eliminate options for me.

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