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Blogs > RockyG666 > god's servant's blog


RockyG666 63M
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9/5/2014 7:23 am

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9/7/2014 6:35 am
lost at big church
I had been saving all my blog posts here, BC has deleted umpteen of them and I keep a running copy. I recently had a major hard drive crash and I lost some data. I had the blog posts saved in word files and they were labeled bc blog 1- 12, I have only recovered 5-12. this is from the first dated post I could find, Nov 8, 2006. I initially came to BC shortly after being hospitalized in july of 2005.

It was 1996, the year after I separated from my wife, and the year before the divorce was finalized. I had taken a job in a very fast paced small print shop where the owner was verbally abusive to me. I previously had a really good job with really good people, but the company had moved 45 miles out of the city and I wasn’t able to keep up with keeping a vehicle up to the commute.

I was thrilled at first to find a job in the city proper, rather than downtown or in the burbs. This shop was just off fullerton and ashland, which was very near to a dear friend, ricky, down the block from the practice place of a band made up of close friends (including ricky, their drummer) and also just a mile away from the gallery which was my home away from home in those days.

As I settled into this job, however, I had to come to terms with a slave driver of a boss who called me terrible names and was never happy with anything I did. Eventually, one day after I had suffered through a particularly nasty tirade, I calmly got up from my desk, grabbed him by the throat and pinned him up against a wall. I told him that I would immediately start looking for another job, that he would apologize to me and watch his mouth until I did, and that he would give me a good reference.

He was a small man (in more ways than his stature) and I scared him to death. He apologized and agreed and I found another job within 3 weeks. The economy was much better then, and I got really lucky too. I landed the job that I would keep for the next seven years, until I was hospitalized last summer and began my current foraging for careers situation.