Re: What do you do?
- From: Lisa Cubbon <cubbon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:25:13 -0500
Charlie Foxtrot wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:53:06 -0800 (PST), Peppermint PattySorry Charlie (OK that sounds just bad) but I mean it. I am sure that what you
<cinderella836@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was just sitting here thinking about all of you and how we only know
each other as Disney nuts. I'm curious and if it isn't too out of
line I was wondering what you all do for a living? If you don't want
to get personal here, I understand but inquiring minds want to know
and all that. I'm a jack of all trades - I am a registered nurse who
works full time at home as a medical transcriptionist for a national
company and I dabble in real estate as a licensed sales agent.
Well... Anyone who's been around here for a while, pretty much has at
least heard rumors of what I do - or, up until a month ago, did.
Yeah, since 1991, I made my living as a strip club DJ and manager.
From 1983 to 1991, I was a DJ/host on the radio and when that industry
stopped wanting to pay a living wage, I moved into the clubs.
In April, I announced, at work, that I intended to retire after 25
years of making a living behind the microphone. I took classes to get
certified to deal poker in casinos and card rooms.
I auditioned for the first area openings in that field in November.
Two days later, I found myself fired from a job I had been at for nine
years.
My direct manager had no problem with me and my choice to retire but
our day manager was appointed General Manager when the managing
partner sold out his shares of the business to his partner. He has
always been weird and gets his mind set on certain subjects and there
is no changing it. I guess he'd been grousing, since April, that I
was not being loyal to the company by wanting to retire from the
business. Once I had an actual interview/audition, he insisted that I
be fired since that proved "my heart was not in the job" any longer.
Clown. Never mind that he started his career in the business as I was
entering my 12'th year. Never mind that he came to me, for five
years, every time he could not solve a problem. My desire to not be
on my feet, talking into a microphone and playing bad music - after 17
non-stop years, plus eight radio years - meant that I was "abandoning"
(his word) the business.
Then again, this is a guy who won't shop at Publix because one time
the customer in front of him stopped the cashier from ringing up one
of his (the club GM's) items with the first customer's items. The
cashier said, "Sorry, he didn't put down the divider when he put down
his items."
That offended him and he refuses to ever shop at a Publix again.
Weird, huh? Same guy insists that the space program is all fake. No
moon landings. No shuttle flights. It's all faked. His proof? He
says zero-gravity is impossible.
So I've been unemployed for a month but tomorrow morning I am
interviewing at another card room and two of my three references work
there. So things look pretty promising and this opening was where the
local gaming buzz said I was going to end up at, anyhow.
That was the real killer in getting fired - I knew that I, most
likely, had this coming up and it was a month away.
Foxtrot
If you think you hate me from what I write here, check out my blog on my MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/bennettron
If you actually think I'm an okay guy, go ahead and add me as your friend if you are active at MySpace.
want will happen. You are a guy who makes your future. Lisa
.
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- What do you do?
- From: Peppermint Patty
- Re: What do you do?
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