Greetings again fellow net nutz!
It's been a while since I opened this blog. I've eaten enough shit to consume a lifetime of sewerage and now, it's time for me to dump.
I live just south of Cleveland, OH; a city that has been DEAD for 8 or 9 years and is just now waking to that fact. I work in the Real Estate business where I partake not just in the settlement end, but the real estate Mortgage and Sales end as well. Cleveland's infinite ignorance had passed a preditory lending law a couple of years ago and caused lenders to flee like crazy. Now the ignorance has bled south to Columbus, our state's capital. Upon the passing of their legislation, I can only imagine that most lenders won't be doing business in Ohio any more.
Enter my life:
Prior to 10/2/2000, when I converted my career to the "safety" of a settlement company, I was a highly compensated wholesale Mortgage Account Executive. I quoted "safety", because there were turbulant times at the end of the millenium for most lenders who did not credit score, (aka the end of the free market and the beginning of Governmental ignorance and interference in the lending industry). I went from a six figure income to chump change and haven't made a decent income since.
These employers see desk job employees as "plug-n-play". They hire folks, often down on their luck, and brainwash them into the belief that they are very lucky to even have a job - despite it's miniscule wage. During the course of the last three years none received any bonuses and few - if any - received any salary increases. My choice(s) to depart are: numerous nuances; subtle put downs; degrading sexual inuendo (reverse sexism at that!) from the Pres, VP of operations and their "party planner" (not my choice of words - but requoted here as an accurate portrayal by an independent contractor from a different division); and the factual situation, whereby this husband and wife employer constructed their million and a half dollar abode on the backs of their employees, (ie: no bonuses, raises, etc).
Six months ago, I re-entered the job hunt with a vengence, seeking to re-enter the Account Executive Wholesale Lending profile I had when I made 4 times as much as I do now. Due to changes in the industry, I have recently learned that that type of income is no longer available. I turned 3 offers down in the last 3 months.
There are a LOT of reasons I have such a DISsatisfaction with my present employer. In an effort to maintain job security, I willingly accepted 2 more jobs, (totalling a guarenteed 250 per month - MORE CHUMP CHANGE - for BOTH jobs. Meanwhile one job COSTS me an additional 1500 per year in dues.
All I want is ONE job, that pays me what I am worth, and who'll leave me alone after hours and on weekends.
Now, I seek employment OUT of the state. I LIKE the real estate lending side, but the anti preditory lending law in Ohio is against Adjustible or balloon mortgages. IF the customer CHOOSES that option, who the hell are states and cities to mandate their elimination? Egotistical, Ignoramous BASTARDS - as ALL politicians are. If they were TRULY versed in the ways of business, they wouldn't be having to shake hands and kiss babies to be re-elected to continue their "work". They give more lip service than hookers on their knees!
So...Away from Ohio, Away from Cleveland, Away from the humidity and winters... AWAY from the City of Death!!! This weekend, I primed my boys. Their response? "You gotta do what you gotta do dad". Sometimes they are SO mature!
So... Today, April 7th, 2006, I look forward to a future in the South West... where Opportunity and life becons. It may take 2, 3 or 4 years.... But the foregone conclusion is to leave this DEAD CITY for an OPPORTUNITY.... an OPPORTUNITY for ME! It's MY time. Not someone else's... I am through with the guilt bestowed upon me by ex's... I am through with being the underpaid pawn, over criticized pawn, while my employer sucks off all the company profits to build a $1.5 million house ... with CASH! I'm through being someone's lackey, pawn, GO-fer, or even their kids' homeork do-er... FUCK THEM! This time, it's for ME... ONLY ME!
And now the new venture begins. Stay tuned!
