Ok so it has been a long, long time since I posted. Here is why and what's been going on.
After many years in the shipping and logistics industry on Nov. 26 I started a new career with a Geological company. After a few months of training I am loving it and soon I will start in my sales position. My old job changed. I liked the company under the manager that hired me. Then he left and the sales manager left. When the new branch manager came in things went downhill quickly. I can probably sum it up in the following words: Arrogance, micro-managing, lack of industrial knowledge, sexist, childish, poor management. Who wants to work with all of that? For example besides doing a lot of time wasting work with not even a thank you or good job, when I told the new branch manager I wanted to transfer to the special projects branch he stopped talking to me. He would pass my desk 20 times a day and not say a word or even look at me. I continued to work in the projects department for another 9 months and he maybe said hello to me twice. Maybe if he wouldn't have been such a jackass about stupid stuff maybe I would have stuck around. Or maybe if he acted like a real manager. Or maybe if he would have treated me and everyone else with a little respect....I could go on and on. Anyway, my stress level went way, way down once I left. I am also not working any over time with my new company so I have more time to spend with my precious daughter.
Speaking of my precious daughter, she turned 1 on Jan. 12 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe she is already 1. Time sure does fly by. She is walking around pretty good now so you can imagine she is getting into everything.
Here are a few things I have learned in my first year of being a dad and almost 3rd year of being a husband
1. I never thought I could love 2 people so much
2. I thought that I wanted a boy like most men but I wouldn't trade my daughter for anything in the world.
3. Babies can bite pretty hard even if they only have a few teeth
4. Seriously, plastic blocks hurt when stepped on in the middle of the night
5. No matter how tired or frustrated I am the smile from my wife or baby makes it all go away.
6. It's starting to seem that I know more songs from my daughters toys than I do on the radio
7. Women, both young and old, are truly amazing
8. I have never thought about safety so much in my life
9. I have never worried so much in my life when my daughter is sick or something might be wrong
10. I love being married to my wife
11. I love being a Dad
Anyway I will try to post more stuff when I can.
Later
