All is Well and Getting Better

April 21, 2019

The bitch children that live with me will be going home in about 30-days. I can’t express how much I hate co-habitation with brats that don’t listen and put their grubby little hands on my food (without washing them), and generally leaving a mess. You can say all you want about needing to have a bigger heart for unfortunate children — until they live with you and don’t follow your house-rules.

So fuck ‘em. They’ll be going back to their ghetto lifestyle and I can finally eat a decent meal and walk around my place naked if I want to.

Plus I get my office back. The moment they leave I’m getting it fumigated.

Aside from that, and I appreciate this space to vent, I’m working still and building on things I wanted to do since there’s a semi-consistent paycheck rolling in.

Looking at AWS certification and A+ certification (Network + down the line as well) to get better jobs/pay.

Animating again. Writing again. Thinking of picking up audio theater production again. Looking at film again.

All this to say I’m feeling myself regardless of past complaints that being myself got me nowhere. I’d rather be going nowhere but happy than not doing the things that I love and suicidal. Therein lies the secret to personal happiness.

This is why these bastard kids need to leave.

They interrupt my personal space happiness. It is a commodity I should never EVER have to put aside for others for their benefit. Shit, I barely have anything else. I deserve to live in a place where it’s not fucked up and dirty by nasty fucking children that won’t listen.

Why don’t I make them listen?

Cause I’ll fucking kill them in the process of doing so. In order to save us all the grief, get the fuck out.

CompTIA A+ Certification

May 31st, 2018

Prior to taking the Paralegal Classes for certification, of course, I have to pay for it. Looking at the current job’s pay, while on a weekly basis it’s a start in the right direction to start stabilizing financially, it’s long-term is bleak. I would need to do 12-hour shifts daily, including a day or two extra, to make any significant money to save/lower debt. Even though my body is adapting to the hours, it’ll be challenging to go to school, plus go to the paralegal course, and be awake at any of them and still work 12-hours daily.

The key is to get a better job that pays more without the challenging hours. How do I do that? Get a certification in the middle of everything.

I’m currently taking classes in AIU toward Information Technology but they don’t contribute toward getting A+ certification. A lot of jobs are looking for IT professionals WITH certification in at least A+. I never took the test in the past because it was incredibly expensive at the time. We’re talking an easy $300 just for the test alone.

Now, it’s $90 bucks per test (there are two parts) and $140 for the practice/study of it all. Yeah, I know you’re saying it costs more now than before. The $300 was just the test. The practice was either on your own or some other amount. There’s a saving of $100 today than back then PLUS it seems to be done at home online. Back then, you had a location you had to go to.

In any case, I’m in a better position now. Tomorrow I’m paying for the practice/study program. Over the next two months, I’ll practice/study the A+ work, and around August, take the test. If I can do it within a month, that would be awesome but two months is realistic. Get certified and get better work in order to properly balance a better job and paralegal study.

Naturally, the certification is going to be a huge benefit to the overall IT degree process. If it goes well, I’ll take other certifications. Particularly the Network+ certification.

If this plays out as planned, I’ll have to be at this job til August/September. It’s not bad, but just inconvenient. My wife needs to take Uber every day I’m working and that adds up. Getting a second car is a goal, but again, need a better job.

This is life. Always need a strategy to keep afloat.

Southern Poverty Law Center Volunteer

January 5th, 2018

I finally sent out the paperwork to join the SPLC Remote Volunteer team. Not entirely certain what it’s about, but I stuck with the promise to do so and I anticipate it aligning me with my law aspirations. Also should look good on a resume.

I also started working at the ‘Free Code Camp’ website. I figure if I do ten lessons a day, I’ll re-gather my coding experience. Helpful when working on my wife’s forthcoming site and possibly something to contribute in this IT degree switch. I’m banking that I can do equally well at this as I am doing in the rest of my academic pursuits.

Having said that, I’m already exploring the idea of getting a few certifications. Particularly the long elusive CompTia A+ certification. Not that my life will be exposed to computer repair, but I’d rather have it in my stash of certifications than not have it. I’ve noticed the CompTia Networking and security certifications; they are closer to my degree program. I get down on all these things, by December 2018, I can look powerhouse to a good IT job even with a progressing degree on the way.

Why does he still pursue tech when he wants to go to law school? Because I want it all, quite frankly but the truth is tech is a safety if law falls through.

Today, yesterday and the day before have been very productive days.