Hi everyone,
my name is Nick, i'm always trying to be optomistic but latley i look at everything that has happened to me since the moment i graduated highschool and i cant help but think that i have hit a dead end.
30 days after my 18th birthday i obtained my real estate license in New York State, i knew that real estate was of great intrest to me and i had always dreamed of beeing a real estate developer. I took every penny i had saved and decided to give real estate sales my best effort. after a few months I enrolled in community college and a few months after that i soon realized that i was only putting forth a half hearted effort towards real estate and school. i did what any 18 year old kid who knows everything would do, i dropped out of college. after seven months of hard work i finally landed my first client, or so i thought. My broker managed to loose me the client after insisting that he have to pay extra fee's he wasnt comfortable with. I offered to take the money out of my commission but the client was so hurt by what had happened he went elsewhere for a real estate agent. I now had lost my only sale and had a negetive bank account. all $4,000 was gone. staying in sales i landed a job in car sales where i made good money but was coned into leaving the dealership to start selling aflac. i made such poor pay i had to take on a second job and was working 70 hours a week. after leaving there i took it upon myself to get a salaried job away from sales. i starting working for a local radio station as a sales assistant and this is where my downward spiral begins. I started to go out drinking with some of my co-workers whome were mostly women, i was only 19 at the time so this was a big deal. a combination of new found freedom in my personal life and my hatred for my job in a cubical quickly led to a drinking problem. i dumped my girlfriend of 4 years and starting dating one of my co-workers. i suffered greatly from insomnia, alcholism and depression and my performance at work was almost non exsistant. after six month i was fired from my job at the radio station and was unemployed and soon began selling drugs to make ends meet. my girlfriend took me back but i had decided that my life could use some seriouse change. during this entire time my family and I had been working on starting a winery. I packed my things and fled to the fingerlakes with only a little money in my pocket and the determination to get into the wine business and learn how things were done. during my time in the fingerlakes i was happy, had my own apartment and made it home to see my girlfriend quite often. then she began going out with the people from her work and told me that she was having sex with the bartender. after loosing my mind and falling into a deep depression once again...this time hundreads of miles away from my friends and family, i soon met a nice girl who grew up in this area. she was my age and had her own apartment as well. after dating for a few weeks my parents came out to meet her, that same night her apartment caught fire and we were trapped on the second floor. I got out first using the bed sheets and had her jump as i caught her. now she was living with me and i was starting to ween myself off of cocain that i started doing after hearing that my last girlfriend was cheating on me. all was well but my tour of duty in western ny was coming to an end. i returned to my hometown to start the winery and get my life settled again. the girl came with and is now living with me in my parents house. i'm still unable to find a job, my girlfriend is depressed, and the winery is having issues taking off...i'm starting to feel like im at a dead end :(...that is believe it or not a very short version of my life after highschool. | |
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