Biography
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Throughout my 12 years of working in the technology industry I've been interrogated at length by customers, friends and family alike as to how they can transition into what appears, on the surface at least, to represent one of the most exciting careers on the market. Enticed by the apparent allure of easy money, client golf, unlimited logo-ware and stock options, these unsuspecting fools sit perched on the periphery peering enviously at what they believe to be the panacea of employment. Such is not the case.
My life is two parallel stories that merge into one. Not unlike the duality of all of our lives: the one we lead and the one we feel, deeply in our hearts, that we were meant to lead. One is comprised primarily of the logistics of survival, embarked upon because we feel it will deliver on the promise of inner peace (satisfaction, acceptance etc..) If you re lucky enough to choose a path that provides a modicum of fulfillment, meaning and the odd glimmer of enlightenment you consider yourself lucky, blessed, full. If you bumble off in the wrong direction however, by the time you realize life has delivered you into a dead end it s generally too late to correct your course and begin anew. Instead you settle for your pre-ordained lot in life, content to lie in the muck and blame the universe for your misfortune. I ve had many opportunities to lie in the muck. Some I created, some I felt were foisted upon me, and some I truly feel were placed before me by whatever source that powers the universe simply to see how I would react. Trust me, its no fun being the entertainment source for a universal entity with a maligned sense of humor. It would be blatantly and unequivocally dishonest for me to paint myself in too flattering a light. In truth the easiest story I can tell you is one that either underplayed my complicity in the dark days of my soul, or worse, painted myself as an unwilling victim of a random chain of events. I don t believe either to be accurate. As with most things, the truth lies in the gray area, and I will endeavor to be true this gray area as much as my pride (and the threat of litigation) will allow. My fifteen year technology sales career had exposed me to God knows how many different flavors of executives, sales processes and incentive plans. I d worked for, and sold to, a variety of executive management teams that ranged from the passive to the outright predatory; and nothing can compare to the bizarre business processes and dysfunctional culture of the modern-day time-share sales floor that I experienced on my advernture trip to Mexico with the family - nothing! As with most great writers, I am a recently reconditioned and repaired byproduct of an exceptionally dysfunctional and abnormal childhood. I carry more emotional scar tissue than Helen Keller and can smell excitement and/or fear from 50 yards. Consistent drama during my childoood has forced me to develop a hyper-sensitivity to changing emotions that has served me well as an adult and writer. I have always been able to intuitively sense the unspoken feelings and fears of those around me. |
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