Dave

March 13th, 2007 by dave

not eating as much, sleeping more, working harder, and keeping warm, HOWEVER…

Life is still throwing surprises at me left right and centre and my brain is constantly in overdrive. Lifes good, but at the same time stressful (in a good way though). It still gets me now, the fact that this time last year I was working as a Sales Manager at Phones 4 U, travelling to Nottingham City five to six days a week, working my arse off for £18,000 a year. Although the job was fantastic and the people became good friends, I had to leave and move away. If I hadn’t had done that I doubt i’d have been here today. I was on the way to a higher position and would have stayed with them for years as I really did love the way they ran the business. I don’t think any other mobile phone companies have such an aggresive approach to sales, I learnt a hell of alot there. To be fair, all the jobs I have had have learnt me a shit load, I have had training in so many areas I cant begin to count.

Over the years I have been on an a wage between £9k & £19k……
Looking back at that lot I think to myself where as it gone? I’d say the majority of its sat on my drive, the rest was spent on living and having fun whilst living it up and having a disposable income. I did have one year where I bought a house with my girlfriend at the time, BAD IDEA, talk about learning by your mistakes, won’t be going down that street again anytime soon. Thats a message to alot of you out there, unless you are truly and deeply in love with someone do not take on such a big commitment, nice times out of ten it ends in tears. I have the t shirts to prove it (and the scars).

Look at me going off on a tangent, kinda can’t help myself, I could type shit all day long I have lots flowing through my mind, maybe if I blog more then all the crap that gets stored upstairs will get the fuck outta my head.

The car should be on the road soon, I have got all the parts now and will spending time over the weekends sorting it out. I need to get some new suspension ready for the track days but cannot for the life of me decide. Teddy has told me to get some FK coilovers which I’m a bit unsure about, I have not had that much experience in the suspension department and until there on I’m not gonna know exactly what the ride will be like. I’ll beg Teddy to let me have a quick drive of his one day, that’ll help me decide. I have sold the old interior and got one from the Mk4 16v, me and Olly attacked it at the local scrapyard.

Its rather weird that everything I talk about is car related, I would have never thought five years ago when me & Oly started Maxxd that it would ever get to the level that its at. It doesn’t feel real sometimes, I just glance around our office thinking how the hell did we get there? It’s a dream come true, its that overwhelming I could cry sometimes. If I wasn’t doing Maxxd, I’d probably be in the RAF or would have trained to be a Gas & Heating Engineer, two things that I did get the ball rolling when I was younger but decided to get into office based work and sales. The RAF would have made a completely different person of me and I doubt I would have had the fun that I have had over the past five years.

What else is happening that I could do with getting off my mind? mmmmmmmmmmmm ???

Best not BLOG that Dave - thought to self
Last night I went out with two mates that I have not seen for ages, we had a beer or two and caught up on old times, I actually felt like myself again, I had not been out for ages. It made me realise how many hilarious things we used to get up to and that I had kinda forgotten about them. The past few years has been like a big blur for me, its been work, hassle, work and hassle. From this day on, I am going to make more of an effort to go out and see my friends and not allow other things in my life to take over completely. I have fell into this trap before and I can easliy go home and sit in front of the TV thinking about what I am gonna do tomorrow or how I can make things at work better, I am forever thinking, its time for fun and games I think
Thinking back to last year when I spent three months in Wisbech, I was blogging literally every day and It made me feel a little better getting things off my mind, its like once the stuffs on here its kinda off my mind (not totally) but its just like speaking to someone about it all (without the reply). Call it blogtherapy
I think for today i’ll leave the blog, I’ll write another one at some point towards the end of the week.