NEW LIFE, NEW COUNTRY, NEW PROFESSION
NEW LIFE, NEW COUNTRY,
NEW PROFESSION
(this is a first draft of a memoir about the many times I have put myself at risk and survived).....if you truly read this I really would appreciate comments, suggestions about how I might make it more interesting to read.
YES ALL NEW
I grew up in Detroit, Michigan in a modest working class neighborhood. My father was a mechanical engineer and one of the few WHITE COLLAR people on our block.
I married someone whose father was a mildly successful salesman and they lived it a wealthy neighborhood on the westside.
Out of my class
Her entire family wanted to move to FLORIDA (long story).
I was the first one to land a job and to move.
I lived in their motorhome parked in the driveway of one of his sisters who was a factory worker and her husband ran his own cleaning business, cleaning restaurants mainly. Very kind helpful people. I worked with BUD on the weekends to help pay them for letting live in their driveway.
M to F I worked at the architectural firm as a project architect in Palm Beach, way out of my league.
Though I didn't require a visa I might as well have come from a foreign country.
- - - -
skip ahead 7 years
we divorced
I had become a licensed architect
I lived in a one bedroom apartment
that mutual friends found me where the owner was willing to let me slide on rent until I could pay it, which I never had to.
I lost my project architect job
started my own architectural firm (just me myself and I) in a bare concrete and concrete block wall storage space that belonged to people I knew who set up my apartment rental and didn't charge me because I did graphic and advertising work for them.
That was in Boynton Beach a small retirement and vacation town in southern Palm Beach, a working class town.
I was in a foreign country once again
as we USA citizens often say
BEEN THERE
DONE THAT
GOT THE T-SHIRT to PROVE IT
did I learn anything from it?
I hope so
BLAH BLAH BLAH
I have started with nothing several times
I have been in debt before
I have had plenty of money to support myself for years whether I worked or not before.
You are gambling with your career
and you life
NEW PROFESSION
(this is a first draft of a memoir about the many times I have put myself at risk and survived).....if you truly read this I really would appreciate comments, suggestions about how I might make it more interesting to read.
YES ALL NEW
I grew up in Detroit, Michigan in a modest working class neighborhood. My father was a mechanical engineer and one of the few WHITE COLLAR people on our block.
I married someone whose father was a mildly successful salesman and they lived it a wealthy neighborhood on the westside.
Out of my class
Her entire family wanted to move to FLORIDA (long story).
I was the first one to land a job and to move.
I lived in their motorhome parked in the driveway of one of his sisters who was a factory worker and her husband ran his own cleaning business, cleaning restaurants mainly. Very kind helpful people. I worked with BUD on the weekends to help pay them for letting live in their driveway.
M to F I worked at the architectural firm as a project architect in Palm Beach, way out of my league.
Though I didn't require a visa I might as well have come from a foreign country.
- - - -
skip ahead 7 years
we divorced
I had become a licensed architect
I lived in a one bedroom apartment
that mutual friends found me where the owner was willing to let me slide on rent until I could pay it, which I never had to.
I lost my project architect job
started my own architectural firm (just me myself and I) in a bare concrete and concrete block wall storage space that belonged to people I knew who set up my apartment rental and didn't charge me because I did graphic and advertising work for them.
That was in Boynton Beach a small retirement and vacation town in southern Palm Beach, a working class town.
I was in a foreign country once again
as we USA citizens often say
BEEN THERE
DONE THAT
GOT THE T-SHIRT to PROVE IT
did I learn anything from it?
I hope so
BLAH BLAH BLAH
I have started with nothing several times
I have been in debt before
I have had plenty of money to support myself for years whether I worked or not before.
You are gambling with your career
and you life
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