Been so long since I've been back home...

I have been living here, on the mainland, Minnesota, since April of 1995.

There has been so many things that I have done, so many things that I have seen and still there are so many things yet to be. I have met so many people and within the past several years have only come to realize what a protected life I have lived before moving here.

There are some people that are open minded and there are some people that appear to be open minded and the very few are are truly open minded. I know there were several people that were afraid that I was going to take over their jobs. They were also prejudice...

I don't know where to begin as to what I mean or if I should write an explanation. What I do know is that if there were things that I could change in my life, either before or since then, there would be so many things that I would change. What I won't and will not change is my sense of duty, loyalty and ethics.

Since my first non-paying job when I was 13, I have been told a lot that I acted much more mature for my age and worked hard and this maybe a fault cause when I do work, I work at a 150 percent capacity with a tendency to burn myself out quickly. As for ethics, I believe that a job should be done well and to be knowledgeable in what I do, this I think comes from my ethnic, martial arts and management training background.

The first two are clear and obvious, the third, well... at one time in my work history, I was an assistant manager/management trainee for a high class restaurant. I would like to say to them if I were to ever see them again is... "Thank You".

In the 30 years I have held a job, I have never really known what I've really wanted to do and worked basically in almost every different industry that there is, however within the last 10 years, I have come to realize what I really truly enjoy but am not sure if I would be able to make a career out of it. You see, for the about the last year, I have been unemployed. Not that I don't like it, but it seems that there is nothing available for a person without a "certificate".

I have the skills, I have the experience and I know that I can do the job with little training cause I learn fast. I guess I'll leave it at this and write more later...

つづく ( To be continued... )