08/11/2025
Hahahah this audio 😂
As I kid I wanted to be a lot of different things- a writer of dark & apocalyptic novels, a zoologist studying tigers in the jungle, a journalist reporting on crazy situations a la Hunter S Thompson, an interior/furniture designer (have I ever mentioned my love affair with chairs?), but ultimately, at that time (the 90s), all those paths seemed too academic, too rigid, too conformist for me.
I was the kid in the “gifted” classes who aced every test, knew every answer, but would be failed by a hard assed teacher because I’d refused to do homework (I was morally opposed to doing school work outside of school hours- I had real jobs that paid money that I needed to work to feed myself).
While I absolutely relish learning new things & gaining knowledge, I couldn’t abide the thought of enduring 4 or more years after high school sitting in a seat being lectured at. I wanted to get out in the world, get my hands dirty, my knees skinned & my mind blown.
While I was called lots of names by parents, teachers, other authority figures for my choices, I never paid the digs much mind & just kept on doing what I wanted. I didn’t always make the right choices, I very often failed (& went hungry or didn’t have a place to sleep as a result), but I never felt I betrayed myself, & I always worked harder than almost anyone else I knew.
Some people these days are against working hard, they often tell me to take a day off, to rest, to do some “self care”, but the thing that they don’t understand is that I LOVE to work. I get a kick out of accomplishing a task, I experience joy when I create something new, & lemme tell ya, producing something that brings pleasure to other people is a real fu***ng high, man!
It did it my way & now I’m fortunate enough to have a decade old business that’s never been as stressful as working for someone else, a couple of cool ass trucks & the freedom to take a few weeks off a year to go sit in a river & work on that novel writing I aspired to as a kiddo.
I never wrote a business plan, I never followed trends, I never did a goddamn thing the way someone told me I was “supposed”, & I turned out alright. I hope you have too 🐮💋
