On The Grind

The Growing Pains of Success...



Delivering pizza is not glorious. Go Figure. How did I go from having a respected job to driving around all day depending on the gratuity of trailer trash and 3PM drunks. Granted there are plenty of nice housing delevopments in this area of Florida but the majority of this "s-hole" is a conglomroation of resididences with cinderblocks in the driveway, overgrown lawns, kids running around in the street barefoot, straw-muching-stereotype rednecks, brokedown-oil leaking cars, and the dreaded grundgy dog that wants to destroy you and the food you are carrying. The job pays though; and, I might add that it was pays well.


I was making about the same wage sitting behind a desk for 50 hours a week for a major corporation and now I make the same, or more, sitting behinid the weel of my car with a box of "garcia-vegas" and Jay-Z bumping in the stereo. OK, the money is not always constant but every week eventually evens out and I make about 15 to 16 dollars per hour. Being friends with my "vertically-challenged" General Manager allows me more freedom to set my own schedule and keep a nonchanalante attitude to the job.


Nevertheless, I do not want to deliver pizzas. Coming home and having your new car and your whole body smelling like a grease trap, putting hundereds of miles on a car that will only depreciate, and the fact that it is not a very glamorous line of work pushes me to achieve my goals so I can move on with my life.


Of course, there are some steps I need to take before I can just quit this job. So here we go with another checklist...



1. Save money.


The fun part., AKA, this is going to be the hardest part for me right now. I have gone through several stages of my life where I was excellent at putting away money. I was more responsible with regards to how and what I was spending my money on. I have been working on revert back to these savings habits and the process has been going smoothely.


2. Play more poker.


Self-explinitory: I need to play at least 1500 hands-a-day and total of 30-40 thousand hands per month. This is a easily attainable goal but it will only be successful if I can accomplish my final goal.


3. Wake Up.


Fucking wake up in the morning. No more "Xak's School of Life" and waking up at 3:30-4 when I have to work. I need to accomplish more daily and this will only happen if I implement the willpower and wake up when my alarm goes off.


I think if I accomplish each of these goals, I will be well on my course to playing Poker proffessionally. I have made drastic improvements to my game in the past month and I am ready to hit the higher levels again. I need to get more hands in, save up my money offline, become more productive, and I will be able to achieve anything I desire.