Random Thoughts and Why I Started

 Riding my flaming unicycle


So today I have started on my journey. I'm writing a blog to become a book. This is about my personal journey and it will contain pre and post recovery lessons and thoughts.


My motivation for this as I am struggling to find my next awesome career. No diploma and being an older white guy makes me less desirable to hire than a younger person as I don't check the boxes for what most are looking for.


I feel that it is important to be my authentic self. no amount of virtue signaling will get me where I want to be as I would have to abandon my truth which is regardless of color, ethnicity, gender want good employment is the true equalizer. MLK was tossed from Chicago for wanting to fight for fair pay for white people too. They rejected his attempt to help.  

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