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Chewits United Kingdom. Jul 06 2009 13:14. Posts 2539 | | |
Last September I started work for a Kitchen design company, full time. Kitchen design was just something I got into because of the jobs I had done before. I never loved it, but I didn't hate it, I thought it was ok, and could be good to make a career in. After some time working in this new job, I soon to begin to realize how bad the company was managed and how much of a mess it was in. Coming from a larger multi-outlet retailer to a local but large single outlet business, it was like going back in time 10 years ago. Because everything was really backwards. Nothing was computerized (except the actual designing of the kitchen software), all the accounts, orders and everything was on paper. And then there was the accounts. lol. I found this out after a few months, that apparently there was no accountant for the past year and a half, and the owners had been doing it. Now you might think there isn't much wrong with that, but when you realize that the two owners are complete idiots and only bought the business a few years ago and had no experience of running one, this was so bad.
It soon became apparent, that the business owed thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of pounds to other companies. Every week we (the designers) were told to use different suppliers, and were fobbed off with some bullshit excuse that quality wasn't good, when we all knew why. They owed them money. Then there was the customer service, that was non-existent from the owners. They simply did not care one bit about them. It really became so bad, that I found myself having to cover for them and constantly lying to customers when I knew full well the truth. But I was simply doing what I was told as an employee. However I hated it, and it was happening every day. I actually felt sick going into work, and dreaded it each night. It was then that I knew, things had to change.
I started applying for all these other shitty jobs, which I knew I wouldn't like, but it had to be better than where I was. It was then after about the 20th application sent off, that I realized why am I wasting my time with this. I had spent 3 years in college studying music technology, and it was the music industry, in some shape or form, that I wanted to get involved with. I never just got my ass into gear to pursue it. I started asking around, and perhaps the luckiest encounter happened.
Just two days after me explaining how my life was so shit to my girlfriend in my current job and how I wanted to get into the music industry, a fantastic thing happened. My girlfriends dad works for the council and does events and things, and had some connections with some companies. My girl had spoken to my dad the following day and asked if there was anything available. There was nothing at the moment. Then an old friend of his just dropped into the office. This friend was the owner of one of the largest P.A hire (live sound systems) companies in the UK. Wow? They had not talked in years and he wanted to catch up. So he mentioned that I was looking work, and he said to give him an e-mail to arrange something. So i obviously e-mailed him, and we arranged a meeting, and he was able to start me working. I quit my job in the shithole I was in before. And 2 days after I finished, they shut the doors and it went into administration. It was in the papers, that they owned over 200,000 pounds to companies and customers. It was really crazy.
So lately I have been doing freelance work for the production company. He couldn't give me a permanent job, but said he could give me work, but variable hours per week. It is what I have always wanted to do, and I have been loving it. The work is very hard. Hard work, long hours, and shitty pay. But it is really good fun. The only problem is that the amount of hours I have been getting has not been enough to live on. I had been playing alot of Poker in the spare time because of the odd hours, it actually suited me playing Poker. I am just not at a limit that I can withdraw from on a regular basis.
After several gigs, I get a call from him, asking me if I can work full time for him up untill mid August (going on holiday then), as a trial to see how I get on. I seriously couldn't believe it. I had only worked for about a month, and this was only a handful of gigs, I must have done something right!
So tomorrow I start full time with them. I am excited that maybe this will be a my start of the career I always wanted. I really love playing Poker too, but it is not stable enough at the moment for the limit I play on to live on. I am certainly going to still play alot, but probably not the same volume anymore.
I go away on Wednesday for 5 days, as I am working at a big festival in ireland - http://www.oxegen.ie/2009/ - We are doing 4 stages there so its gonna be pretty busy! I am really excited and at same time a little sad to be away from home for so long and miss the missus! I just hope it works out and I can get a permanent offer after this trial period.
This kind of messes up my plans to grind mass sngs, because I don't have the time to. So I will probably grind back at NL25. I have been playing last few days and I feel I am playing really nice. My non-showdown line is a nice steady positive line, and my showdown has been going down a bit. But looking back, I have lost alot of coolers at showdown, so I think I am just running bad in the big pots.
Well anyway, If you have came this far, I would like to thank you for reading 
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sounds awesome! gl with the full time job |
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4Kingell United Kingdom. Jul 06 2009 17:55. Posts 1453 | | |
GL - rare to find a job in a business you love - enjoy. |
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acdawg712 United States. Jul 06 2009 21:11. Posts 2639 | | |
great man, enjoy ur work. I enjoyed reading ur live tourney blogs as well. GL sir |
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