Go Getters! Party Bus! Fun!

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How far is too far to get to where you want to be or want to do?

I think that for some, there is no limit, and in some cases, this has served them well. Are those what you call “go-getters”?

I’ve always been the type to take the “patient road”. I’m confident in what I can do, but I don’t like to be a pest or talk about me much. (Yet, here I am blogging about…..Me)

The past couple of years I’ve been urged to do a better job at promoting myself. I’ve tried it a few times but it always felt ‘dirty’. I don’t know, it just feels weird flat out telling someone “Here’s why I belong here”, then run down a list of your accomplishments.

It’s like basically reading your resume out loud to someone. I know it’s silly to feel this way, but I just feel weird doing that sort of stuff. I know it’s necessary and I know it’s something I should get better at, but too often I rely on letting my work do the talking for me.

That’s why I like auditioning. It’s pretty simple: You hand in your resume, and then you do what you’re told to do on camera, and then wait for the call.

You don’t have to call, ask, follow up, or anything. Just sit back and hope to get the call.

So yeah, I wish I was a little braver when it comes to “showing how much I want this!”, but I can’t help feeling weird doing it. And it hasn’t helped that the few times I tried it, I wasn’t very successful and I just seemed to come off a pest, which was my biggest fear to begin with.

As stated before, this blog was started for me by a dear friend because he said this could be a good thing depending on how I used it. I wonder it I’m doing it right…

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If you take public transportation to get to work, you should have more friends.

Think about it: EVERY day, at the SAME time, and at the SAME location, you pretty much use the same method of transportation to go to and from work.

And EVERY time you’re waiting to get on the bus or train, you pretty much see the same faces waiting with you, and then once you’re on the bus or train, you see even more familiar faces.

Yet, you don’t speak to them.

You’ll sit there and notice things like a new a haircut, new hairstyle, new clothing attire, someone using a different perfume or cologne, a new music player, cool new book bag, new piercing, a book you’ve read or want to read, someone looking sad or worried, or someone hungover.

You see most of these people almost EVERY day, yet you won’t so much as nod to them.

And of course, for the most part, that is one long, boring, silent bus or train.

Wouldn’t it be great if people started talking to each other and acknowledge the fact that in a weird way you all sorta know each other?

If everyone treated that bus or train ride as a mini party to and from work, the work day would be a little extra fun, especially if you have a boring job.

Imagine getting on the bus, and just like at your favorite watering hole, people yelled out your name.

“Hey, it’s Randy!”

Everyone: “Randeeeeee!”

Randy: “What up, bitcheeees!”

Next Stop: Party Time.

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I got to see my family and old friends a lot the past couple of weeks and loved every minute of it.

To top it off my niece texted me to let me know she got an early acceptance to Truman College.

This little girl has had the odds stacked against her, and time after time she continues to surprise me. I almost cried reading that text.

I can’t express how happy and proud I am of her.

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Come see my shows. (See list on the side for show info)

There, I just promoted myself.