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About a year ago my life was going through a few big changes.  Fortunately they were all work-related instead of family related!  At the time it gave me a good opportunity to really think about life things from top to bottom, including money, priorities, future directions etc.

I spent a lot of time thinking about life and priorities especially.  I had a pretty successful career up to that point, but a lot of that time was spent making work a priority over everything else.  There was a wife and 3 kids that deserved some attention, and some things like songwriting and Gator-Studios.com I really wanted to put more focus on.  I went about trying to simplify lots of things both financially and time-wise, hoping to change my course.

One of the things I did was ditch my smartphone.  I reckoned I spent an awful lot of time with that thing, and I should just stop being so connected.  If I needed access I’d just use a computer instead.  Lots of people told me this would simplify my life so I cut the cord.  I also went to a cheap pre-paid phone, if I needed a phone I’d use one that plugs into the wall.

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Let’s step back in time.  Way back.  Like 1979 back.  I was 12 and had been playing guitar for a year or two, my $35 Acoustic from the MAE store in Ft. Lauderdale.  In 1979 I wrote a song, and played/sang it in music class.  I don’t know what possessed me to do that, but I did…and my friends were amazed at the whole thing.  When I think back, I had a lot of song ideas back then.  I probably was some child prodigy genius to them lol

Alas, it was 1979.  Double-digit inflation 1979.  Stagflation 1979.  Jimmy Carter 1979.  Let’s just say money was tight, and unlike these days people didn’t take any little glimmer of talent in their kids and blow a million bucks trying to make them into the next baseball star or music sensation.  So while I had all these ideas, there wasn’t much I could do with it.  At 13 I “upgraded” to a $50 electric guitar from Sears (with action about as high as a 2 story building), not exactly a shred machine, and after a while I got busy with other things and didn’t do much with it, just messing around from time to time.  I saw some friends going way beyond what I could do so I didn’t see much point then.

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Old Doogie and his Mac invented blogs I think.  His computer was pretty cool with the instant boot and he kept his diary on it, typing something profound at the end of every show.  I bet if you looked at what he typed on it’s own, it just looks like a bunch of stupid one liners.  Not much different than this and most blogs I guess!
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After 17 years and some-odd months, my career at Nortel is over.  Okay, it was probably over several years ago but I kept trying to find that “spot” where I fit and could make a difference and get rewarded for it.  It hasn’t been the place to have that happen for me, too many criteria I don’t fit in and the place has been going downhill for a long long time.

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