Message from @Prom
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So recently during the afternoon I had returned *Boom to her owner. Me and the guy had talked for a few hours. From it being bright outside, to it being completely dark outside. He paid for the flea medicine I had bought for her, and asked me for a second time what he could to repay me. I asked him where he lived, found out he was someone with a shed and some tools that I had really wanted to become friends with for a long time to maybe get in on some carpentry stuff. "Well sir, if you would teach me a thing or two, and let me visit Boom every once in a while, that would be more payment than I could ever ask for." Then we shook on it. He showed me how he turns $10 of materials into a product he sells for between $85 and $120. He said he would be very happy to teach me, and he showed me literally everything... like not even worried that I would start trying to make them myself in the future... Really good guy. Like I had said, we talked for a few hours there. Then he said he had to get inside and feed his daughters, we shooks hands, he closed up the shed, and I walked home. I was fully expecting to hear from him again about Saturday or so since he had told me he would be free then, and would be happy to hang out and talk some more. Well, my buddy texts me that he'll be over to hang out at my house and watch some shows at 8pm. At exactly 8pm Boom's Owner calls me out of the blue and says, "Hey, do you think you can come down to my house real quick?" I replied with, "Sure! What for?" "My business partner is here and I want you to meet him." I told him I would be there in 2 minutes tops, got out of my comfy fuzzy sweatpants, and into my jeans and took off down the road. I called my buddy while passing in front of his house asking him for just a few minutes of a rain check before we hung out. I got down to his house and he introduced to his friend and business partner. We spent about an hour and ten minutes talking, most of it about ourselves. Especially me.
He asked me what I had done so far in my life, what skills I had, what I enjoyed doing, what I wanted, what I wanted to do, what stuff I had done in school, specifics about the stuff mentioned above. He also asked me how many times I had done drugs, been arrested, and been pulled over which all ammounted to a grand total of 0 times lol. He then looked at me in the barely lit front yard and asked, "Want to come to work with me on Monday?" That kind of shocked me and I Immediately responded with, "Yes sir!" Which he answered with, "We will get you paid." Boom's Owner and I had become friends pretty quickly I think, he told me his life story in that shed, so I told him mine. We have a weird amount of similarities... and its a very very small world. His step father was an employee of my father, and he had met my father on many occasions and didnt have too great of things to say about him, which I didnt either. The business partner asked about what work I had done before, and when I told him Walgreens he asked if it was the one right down the road, which it was. He asked me if I knew someone by a specific name, I thought for a second and answered, "Yeah, I remember her! She only worked about once a month though." The business partner told me that was his girlfriend and she was doing that to keep her benefits (lol, I had figured.) That blew me away though... even smaller world man. Then he told me to look up the Six Degree Theory, then explained it a little bit. It is very very interesting. So now I had something I can make with my own hands that a master will teach me how to do, I have the knowledge and means to get the materials, and I will be able to sell it for quite a profit... and on top of that I have been asked to come into work with a man who tells me he will make sure I get paid, regardless of whether or not its going to be a learning experience, and I am not directly skilled in what he might have me doing.
This is a Christmas Present from the Universe dude. Its kicked me around a lot for too long... knock on wood, but I this is truly great. None of this would've happened if I hadn't found that kitten (she had been lost for a day before I picked her up) worked my ass off and bought important things to make sure she was healthy, gave her a bath, walked up and down the streets asking about an owner, and then gave her up when it was time. I think all these things stuck out to him, which is why he agreed to become friends and take me into his backyard workshop shed. I have been given so many great opportunities all at once because I ignored the bunch of people telling me to just put the cat outside, she'll find her way home. I honestly feel like tearing up a little thinking about this because the past couple years have been nothing but a downward spiral, a relatively lonely downward spiral, and now I've got people who told me no one will ever care about MY problems, which I do understand to be pretty true, but are willing to give me a chance and just extend their kindness and generosity if I am willing to work hard.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
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