I'm not trying to hate Eric. If anything I'm trying to motivate you. There are things you can do to improve your situation right now. You can learn C# or Ruby or whatever is popular near Chicago, you could take off on your own until you can afford for your family to catch up. You can try and get into an SQL gig. You can do basic design/HTML/CSS/JS stuff.
I just hate hearing people say CAN'T. The vast majority of time that simply isn't true. Life has handed me a plate of shit many a time, and my decisions have contributed drastically to where I am right now. I look back on it man, and realistically, I was a GED drop out who ended up with a couple of certs and worked his ass off and ended up making almost 200,000 a year with a half million dollar house in Columbia MD. Afghanistan and events took that ability from me. I can't see models and relationships anymore, can't follow complex nested logic like I did. Can't focus. Christ I know I sound like a hypocrite spouting off while I'm sitting on "government assistance" but that's not it. Do you really think if I still had those abilities, or even was allowed to work, that I'd be sitting at my dads getting a little over 15,000 a year? The VA has told me if I take any type of real work I'll lose my benefits and get in trouble. I'm fighting them every day so that at some point when I'm back in NC I can start a business I have an idea for. I mean look man, when I got out of the Army the first time in 01 I took a job making 20,000 a year with a tiny ColdFusion shop there in Fayetteville. In a month I took and passed my CF cert and shortly thereafter did the M$ SQL one. I doubled my salary the first year there, spent 12 or more hours a day working, and then went home and studied and did open source projects. Doing 18-20 hours a day. I parlayed that into an 80,000 a year gig at the State Department by writing, teaching, and taking part in open source community projects and conferences. I got heavy into Fusebox because that's what was big at the time, and ended up on the elected advisory council because of the hours I put into it. I climbed the ladder, and brought my friends with me, bringing Adam Lehman over to State, he had been the one who enabled me to even take the DC job. I rented a room room from him and his wife for a while. My wife and kids stayed in NC. That's how I know Scott and Larry and Michael and so many others. I went from a guy who'd almost been kicked out of the Army after my first enlistment, left the 82nd as a PVT; to sitting in the room with Sec. Powell and Ridge in less than 2 years. I've protected Pres. Clinton, Sharon and Arafat; as well as Karzai. I'm fucked up, I don't think anyone doubts that, but I'm driven and that's what's required to get ahead, and what I've been missing for years now. Drive, motivation. This fiduciary thing has given it to me again. To get back on my own two feet, on my own property, as far off the grid as I can get. To live according to my morals and ethics again. If you really want to change your situation, do so, because you can. Maybe you end up in a box, maybe you end up in a mansion, but it's all on you man. I know I'm gonna make a comeback. It's not going to be in the IT field, but it's gonna happen. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:30 PM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did it with a wife and kids. Left Chrissie and the boys in NC to go to > DC, then in DC to go back to NC, so yes. > On Dec 11, 2012 8:26 PM, "Eric Roberts" <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> > wrote: > >> >> Could you have done that with a wife and kids? >> >> ------------------------------------ >> Three Ravens Consulting >> Eric Roberts >> Owner/Developer >> ow...@threeravensconsulting.com >> tel: 630-486-5255 >> fax: 630-310-8531 >> http://www.threeravensconsulting.com >> ------------------------------------ >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:48 PM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: RE: Mandatory Union Tax Ending in Michigan? >> >> >> I lived in my car alst year and I live on next to nthing, I'm moving to NC >> in about two weeks. >> >> I've had to sell off or give away stuff in order to makes sure everything >> will fit in my car, don't tell me you can't make it happen. >> >> Twice I've had to leave my family, travel with next to nothing, and bring >> them along after I could afford to. >> >> Simply put if yousold everything you own and got in your car, I know you >> could do it. Is it safe or comfortable? No! So what? >> On Dec 11, 2012 5:41 PM, "Eric Roberts" <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> >> wrote: >> >> > >> > That is not always an option for everyone. I can't afford to move to >> > an area where I would find more CF jobs. Moving is pretty >> > expensive...especially when you have a family. Jobs were plentiful >> > here not that long ago. I can't take out a loan if I am not working. >> > Been to school...how am I, or anyone else for that matter, not taking >> > responsibility for themselves? >> > >> > ------------------------------------ >> > Three Ravens Consulting >> > Eric Roberts >> > Owner/Developer >> > ow...@threeravensconsulting.com >> > tel: 630-486-5255 >> > fax: 630-310-8531 >> > http://www.threeravensconsulting.com >> > ------------------------------------ >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] >> > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:19 PM >> > To: cf-community >> > Subject: Re: Mandatory Union Tax Ending in Michigan? >> > >> > >> > You move, take out a loan or go to school, you take responsibility for >> > your god damned self. >> > >> > People end up in shitty low paying dead end jobs through their own >> choices. >> > >> > I didn't bitch the year I made just over 15 grand in the Army, I chose >> it. >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Eric Roberts < >> > ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > When you have the only job available in town, workers really don't >> > > have a choice. That is a non-choice...not to mention a very >> > > illogical >> > argument. >> > > If we actually had a free market, that would be true. We don't have >> > > a free market. We have one that s controlled by corporate giants. >> > > >> > > ------------------------------------ >> > > Three Ravens Consulting >> > > Eric Roberts >> > > Owner/Developer >> > > ow...@threeravensconsulting.com >> > > tel: 630-486-5255 >> > > fax: 630-310-8531 >> > > http://www.threeravensconsulting.com >> > > ------------------------------------ >> > > >> > > -----Original Message----- >> > > From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:critic...@gmail.com] >> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:08 AM >> > > To: cf-community >> > > Subject: Re: Mandatory Union Tax Ending in Michigan? >> > > >> > > >> > > "So if 38k is the market rate, why was the company paying 40k?" >> > > >> > > If the workers aren't happy with 38k, why can't they leave and go >> > > somewhere else? And please don't answer that there might now be any >> > > other jobs. If that's the case, then they should be happy with 38k. >> > > >> > > >> > > J >> > > >> > > - >> > > >> > > The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them - Jason >> > > Laumark >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:359124 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
