New career

Well I've been at my new career for 3 weeks now. What I've learned in the past has strengthen me. It has almost killed me. I still have issues and regrets. Like Crestcom, why did God allowed those thieving pirates to take my dreams and my money? I need to get closure on that. It's hard to move forward, with that unresolved.

2011

I haven't posted this new year. It seems like blogs have given way to immediate/instant places like Facebook and twitter. Time waits for no man. Oh well.
New stuff same old bandits right Hal- gotta stay up with the times ya old pickpocket.

Still wanting closure

I am wondering why I can't get closure on what happened to me. I bought a franchise that was a glaring bad investment. It had no chance of working. The whole system is very sleazy. Both the franchise and the company that lead me to it. They are using people and taking advantage of those just wanting to make a better life. Can you thing of a more low-life scummy way to do business. Barely legal but most certainly unethical. I wish I could get over the loss. I have a hard time putting this behind me.

Closing in on 4 years

After writing this blog for four years now I notice how some things have changed and some have remained the same. My first post is as relevant now as it was then. Now, millions more have joined me. I feel like a trail blazer. Instead of just me having to star over at 55 now it is staring over at 60. Now I have no 401 K and a house I can't get out from under. I have really struggled with the same issues for so long it gets into your head. Well at least the first post is a calm reminder that I still have a roof over my head, my health, and a great wife. Let's see what 2011 will bring.

Crestcom

Yes guys I still wonder how you sleep at night. There is not a day goes by I don't have to fight the anguish I feel about having been taken in by your shoddy franchise. I pray that that the Lord forgives you.

Pony Express Oath

More companies should have this kind oath:

While I am the employ of A. Majors, I agree not use profane language, not to get drunk, not to gamble, not to treat animals cruelly and not to do anything else that is incompatible with the conduct of a gentleman. And I agree, if I violate any of the above conditions, to accept my discharge without any pay for my services.

– Oath sworn by Pony Express Riders

New challange

I am really wanting to start a business. I know it will be challenging. But I think its the only way out. Next up what, how and where.

Job hunt

Its as bad as the first day I started this blog. Nothing has changed. The job hunting methodology is as dysfunctional as the economy. I am going to overcome and get a job like I had a TEP. We did it once we can do it again.

As the World Turns

As the World Turns ( is an American television soap opera which aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010.) My mom watched this when I was a kid. I was home sick from school watching it when Walter Cronkite broke in with the news that Kennedy had been shot. Now the long running show has past as well. Things of the world are passing away. The "new normal" is taking shape at an alarming fast pace. Can we keep up with the rapid acceleration pace without losing our minds and our souls?

Crestcom Dream Stealers

I wish to to meet the jerk who said to just take the rip off like a man. Hey pal they stole my money. I am pissed. They are the one's who wouldn't man up and buy back the worthless trash they pawned off on me. Even after they had made a grave mistake they did nothing. So shut up or man up yourself. I wonder if you would think it better if I just let them keep on stealing other folks dreams as well. They dashed mine.

Crestcom, four years gone

Four years ago I had enough of Crestcom International. They were about to charge me for unsold seats. How about the nerve of these pirates. After they had me using a marketing method they "scrapped," now they want me to buy the new crap material and penalize me for the time and money they wasted. Then they flatly denied me any more help on getting it off the ground. So I through in the towel.They won't buy back, even a fraction, of the crappy franchise they sold me. The company that helped me with financing told me they had never seen such a thing. They wouldn't lift a finger to help me sell the thing and then eventually sold another one in my area. Dirty rotten scoundrels, the lot!

It just keeps on.

This is my story

This is the situation. It is as clear as mud right now.

How Do You Find That Perfect Job?

Years after I had the most perfect job on the planet. I am trying to find that again. I wonder if you can catch the wave again.

Definition of Insanity

If you keep doing the same things over and over and expect different results. That was a definition of insanity. I heard it attributed to many different people. I think by that definition I am insane. I need to get out of this four year tale spin. I seemed to be hedged in.

Back to square one

I could repost the same blog's I wrote back in the fall of 2006. I seem stuck in the same rut. I know I can help a small business that's looking for someone to "run the show." It's just so hard to locate this opportunity. I really am stretching the limits of my faith.

The job hunt marches on.

I seemed to have hit a wall in my new career. The book print business is dying and I am hanging on to the last vestiges of the industry. Unless we are given the on-line part of the business to sell, we'll starve.
So, now my new strategy? I have to look to ways to make money. That's the object of a job. My brain hurts. Help!

Mountebank

This is a very good word to describe the guys at Crestcom. They scrapped and changed the marketing material I was relying on to get my business off the ground. Then they really didn't care that they had rolled out a bogus product and wouldn't do anything about it. Look up the definition of "mountebank" I simply say Hal.

Inspriration

Oh how I would love to own a business again. I don't have anything in mind right now. I think the time is right for the creativity and flexibility small business can bring. The time is right because after all the setbacks I encountered I won't be risking as much. As Janice Joplin put it "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." So I am looking.

College Degree Required

Its not so much that I don't have a college degree that it bothers me. What really makes me livid is that I am in SALES. I'm not in teaching, accounting, medicine or any field where one would think that a college degree would be a prerequisite. They didn't have a sales course at the time I would have went to college.If they did it would have been taught by a Marxist dope smoking professor in a tweed jacket. I learned sales and marketing through hands on experience and reading 100's of books and listening to hours of tapes/Cd's by salesman. No I did not go to college. I did work with and study my craft -in the real world. Well if they want that piece of paper that proves to them I have a brain then they need to watch the Wizard of Oz a couple more times until they get the point. I worked with educators for over 20 years. I did not have any trouble at all interacting with some of the highest level educators, publishers and authors. In fact with some people I met the higher level the education the less the sales/people skills seemed to be apparent. I think this requirement in sales is well quite frankly added on by someone who hasn't payed off there student loan and thinks if you didn't spend that money you got a free ride.