| Hello xanga world, it's been once again ages since I last
updated. Post-college life is starting to level out. I quit
Northwestern Mutual for a couple reasons, currently temping at
Countrywide, this mortgage company doing monkey work, but it pays
well. However, I finally get to quit in mid November as I'll
start my training for Wells Fargo as an Advanced Personal Banker after
Thanksgiving!!! I finally have a career path! But going
back to Countrywide, all I do is data entry but get a whoppin 14 an
hour which is ridiculously high for the crap that I do. How it
works is you go in, work your quota which is 39 files or an avg of 6.5
per hour. I get done anywhere from 1 hour even up to 3 hours
early...unfortunately I can't go online and their isn't much else to
do. So I've picked up new skills MS Paint. I've only
produced two so far, but my goal is to make one every two days...here
are my first two:
Garfield, one of my favorite comics/cartoons
This is my recollection of the fateful Thursday during the brushfires
when me and Kris along with hundreds of other employees that we were
gonna die...no really. We got evacuated for the second day, but
this time the parking lot was bumper to bumper, the thick black smoke
got closer, soon enough we see a little red flame, it got bigger and
bigger and closer it came to the building and the parking lot.
Soon the smoke came in and couldn't see more than 10ft ahead of the
car, for a few minutes we thought we would have to ditch the car and
run, which some of our co-workers started to shout and run! But
luckily the police alleviated the traffic and everyone made it out
safely. But on the real, for about 10 minutes of my life I
thought I was in danger...pretty crazy.
A couple other things I learned from Countrywide, is that I took being
around UCLA students and just in general well-educated people for
granted. Most of the people at Countrywide are pretty cool, but
you realize that unlike most college students that aspire for something
great or better many people in this world don't straight up. They
ask me if i go to school, I reply with that I graduated from UCLA and
waiting for my new job to start. They say, "that's cool, but
shoot I don't see the point of college, I made X amount of money an
hour right after high school" (usually around 15/hour) and they are
happy with that, which by all means more power to them, but for me
there is no way i could be happy with not necessarily 15/hour, but its
the fact of having a job like that and not wanting more that boggles
me.
And finally, UCLA FOOTBALL!!! How
crazy are they dude. Three straight comeback wins! Number 8
in the nation. This is of course after I leave UCLA, just my
luck...when I came into UCLA they were #3 6-0 and talks of a national
championship, only to lose 5 straight and decline a bowl bid cause we
were too ashamed of to accept...Lets hope that we've shed our ways of
Nov-Dec collapse!
Things looking forward to:
- Nov 6 - Jason Mraz concert
- Nov 11ish - Quit Countrywide!
- Nov 14-27 GOING HOME!!!
- Nov 28 - Start training for Wells Fargo
- Dec 3 - Kanye West concert
- The rest of the UCLA football season esp DEC 3rd @ USC!
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| Man being a grown up sucks...thats all I got to say. I made all
my previous entries private since life is now post UCLA post Omegas
post a life I've gotten so comfortable in living the past four
years. Now comes the world of careers, tax write offs, supporting
yourself with only the money you yourself make. Its been kind of
a rough start much of which out of my control, but thats how life
predictably unpredictable.
I think another part of my slow start is that I'm scared, straight
up. I'm scared of falling into the rat race and never getting
out, only a few weeks removed from technically being called a student
and already money is the factor in which I must base major decisions
upon. You say, well you have a choice. You're probably
right, but how many can say they actually went the other way?
But with all that said, I've gotten a bit more rejuvenated, less
scared, more ambitious to put in the work I need in order to be
successful. I have my parents scolding, disappointment and more
yelling to thank for the fire under my ass. These next few years
will probably be the hardest in my professional career as a Financial
Representative as I try to build a clientle and a business, but there
is nothing to hold me down from reaching my goal!
Man I just realized how cheesy this sounds, like its some motivational speech thats not quite so motivational hahah whatever
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