Just to give a little insight on me, I am 35 years old and have 21 year old twin daughters who are about to graduate from Syracuse University. I am married to a wonderful woman who is a Navy Veteran that served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. She was a Corpsman who was stationed on the closest medical facility to the war during the Shock and Awe campaign. They helped anyone who was injured, friend or foe it didn't matter. I have so much respect for her .
For the past 3 years I have been lucky enough to serve as the Marketing Director for a multi brand auto group. My previous experience includes 10 years in the restaurant business, over 10 years in the music industry as a producer and engineer, a few years doing graphic design and a couple years doing reputation management and branding.
I am for the most part self taught. I have never really been good at school, I dropped out at 14, got my GED when I was incarcerated at age 16, funny thing about that is I didn't take any of the GED classes and I finished 2 hours early and scored in the 98th percentile, I tried college for a couple weeks and found it was not for me. I love to learn but I do it at a very accelerated pace. I have never really put much thought into the things I do, I just look at things in very simplistic way, you either can or can't and most things you can as long as you don't over complicate it.
When you truly analyze most things you can simplify the pieces and easily understand them and because of this I truly believe anything is possible. I have a hard time understanding the concept of limitations. I also have a hard time believing in certain types of scientific facts, as our technology advances and we evolve intellectually we disprove what was once known to us as facts, so if a fact is no longer a fact was it ever really the truth?
The whole point of all that background is to say that I figured I could add some unique content to Steemit hoping to be able to make a few bucks so I could go back to pursuing my passion of music and I did a couple of test posts just to see how they would do. I posted a tutorial about how to roll a joint with a filter tip, I posted some up close and under the hood shots of the brand new NSX and also did a mock up design on one of the pics for a Steemit wrapped NSX, that one actually got down voted.
The down vote is what got me thinking I might not continue with Steemit, only getting two votes stung but the down vote actually hurt my feelings a little bit. It's awesome to see how Steemit has changed some peoples lives, allowed them to share their stories, pursue their passions and live their dreams. I don't think this will be the case for me. I can say that this site has inspired me to get back to pursuing my love of music. I made the decision to leave the music for a more financially secure career when my daughters entered high school. Now that they are about to graduate college I feel that I can get back chasing my dreams.
I've been broke more times than I've had money, I have had a little successes here and there along the way, the biggest of which are my kids. I have smoked a joint with Snoop and shaken hands with the President. I have taken over 100 hits of LSD in my lifetime. I was raised by a single father who passed away when I was 19 and had a mother who was a homeless heroin addict, when I was in high school I would visit her at the metro where she panhandled, some times I would get her a hotel and food for a couple of days.
Anyway I haven't decided what I am going to do yet when it comes to Steemit but it's late and I'm tired so I think I am going to bed for the night. To those who read this thanks for listening.
