I Once sat in a class room... i once dreamed of working in L.A. I once paid $8,500 a semester at a private college to learn the tricks and professional way to using a television camera. I dreamed one day of taping movies, sporting events, porn, and all the great things people pay great money to have a professional camera man to tape. 4 years later i got kicked out of college... lost a girlfriend, found the woman of my dream, had two kids and started to climb a fortune 500 company's ladder. What I'm trying to get at is that we all make these plans of what our life will one day be... but how many of us never end up doing what our parents or even us wanted us to do when we grew up. Some times i ponder what my life would have been had i finished school, moved to L.A. and found the job of my dreams, but on the other hand now i know what my life would be like to be a father, a good fiance, a provider, and a bread winner. I also have found out for the first time in my life how it would feel like to be so good at something that i would be recognized for it and relieve a promotion for it...This is where the story real begins. I was one week freshly kicked out of college and my friend give me a call. He told me they where holding tours and interviews for package handler and at one of the Major Shipping Companies in our local industry park. I ventured into the world of hard labor which till that date i had never worked such a job. I remember on my first day of work one of the regular package handlers told me " they hire alot because alot of people quit because they can't handle this job." I took it in stride. I wont lie on my first couple of days of unloading which is the process of unloading thousands of packages in about three and a half hours to be sorted and reloaded by other package handlers did scare me a bit. My first day i almost quite, thinking about how things would be so different had i stayed in school but understood there was no looking back. I worked about a couple of months before i met the girl of my dreams and eventually the mother of my kids. She was so beautiful, so sexy, and so short lol. After dating for about 6 months my future fiance got pregnant with my first child "Little Ruben". I pushed my self to become full time package handler at my job which would mean i would have to perform the hardest job which was to work in the load end and "load" trailers. As I learned the process I noticed that i was very good at this process and after just 2 weeks at performing my new job duties to include loading half the day and unloading the second half of the day I was Awarded Employee of the Month. For me this was a big award considering that the whole facility employs over 250 employees over two sorts. As my new son was finally born i striated to move my self up the corporate ladder. After about 9 months of my first child being born my fiance was pregnant with my second child" little Claudia". At this point i understood that the money i made as a full time package handler was not enough to support 2 children and my woman. So every day i went to work i networked within my facility, worked hard, and eventually received the promotion to load coach. As i got this promotion it made me feel accomplished, as for the first time in my life I really felt like I had done something amazing for I had never truly go the extra mile to receive something that only a few could reach. This also inspired me to reach even higher and to eventually become a manager. As for now i will be the greatest trainer at my facility and enjoy the nice pay raise i received at work. I guess what I'm getting at is that we all plan to live this wild and crazy life that only the famous and rich live, but how many of us end up living the simple life, which i myself is more proud of the say if i was filming porn in L.A. Being a father is better then anything i could have done with a college degree, and as i sit here and ponder making good money moving up even higher on the corporate ladder i find out that my true love is business management, i would have never learned this had i not gone through the hardships of life. Sometimes we need to be forced into different situations to find our true calling... So the next time something doesn't work out don't trip, just think what could come of it. Thanks
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