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I am saying good bye to Pizza Hut

comicallyinsanecomicallyinsane Veteran
edited August 2005 in Sanghas
WOOHOO!!!! I was talking ot my old boss at Dominos in Las Vegas the other night and she said she needed a lot of help. I used to be a Senior Assistant Manager for her for years before I moved back to California. I will be moving into a friend's house and I will be getting my old rate of pay and about 50-60 hours a week. :smilec:



My family will stay here while my wife finishes massage therapy school. I will come home once a month to go to the doctor and see my loved ones. My wife is going to move in with her grandmother who happens to live next door to her parents so my kids will have people to watch them while she is out. I will still pay on my house but the good thing is that my utilities will go down to the minimum because no one will be living here. My wife will comeover once a day to feed the dogs and check on the place. As soon as she finishes school in 9 months we will see where to go from there. I am going ot look into starting a business in Las Vegas next year. A lot more doors will open up for me there. We want to move to the coast eventually and rent our house out to someone.


I am a little sad to leave my family but I will see them every few weeks. I will be making at least twice th emoney I am making here. And money is getting tough here. I am also excited because we are going to get out of this mess we are in. I told my wife that I was afraid to leave them and she just replied, "Remember, it's only temporary". She was more of a Buddhist than me at that moment. I am going to use this opportunity to practice my Buddhist studies and really work hard to get into shape. When I come back to California I want to have these things together.


Wish me luck. :smilec:

Comments

  • FrizzerFrizzer
    edited August 2005
    :cheer:

    Congratulations ! :uphand:
  • MoonLgtMoonLgt
    edited August 2005
    Good Luck Comic.

    But may I ask which coast you are talking about? The California Coast? I hope not. I live on the California Coast. And most people here are looking else where, The rent is to High ( 1000 and up). And the salaries are the average ( 8.00p/hr). People here are tha coast are migrating inland so they can afford to live. While the weather here is good. What's not good is the cost of living here.
  • _BeautifulSpringtime_BeautifulSpringtime Veteran
    edited August 2005
    good luck
  • BrianBrian Detroit, MI Moderator
    edited August 2005
    Congrats, comic. Do your best :)
  • AnitaAnita
    edited August 2005
    Best of luck to you Comic! :)
  • comicallyinsanecomicallyinsane Veteran
    edited August 2005
    Thanks all. We were thinking of maybe going to Oregon. We are not even worried about that yet. We are just thinking.
  • emmakemmak Veteran
    edited August 2005
    That is great news Jason! Hope all goes well. My partner used to work away and I would only see him every 6 weeks. It's hard, but I am sure it will be worth it.
    :cheer:
  • comicallyinsanecomicallyinsane Veteran
    edited August 2005
    My wife and I did it when we met so we know how it works. I'll be home at least once a month.
  • PalzangPalzang Veteran
    edited August 2005
    Let me add my best wishes as well. The thing about Las Vegas is that it is samsara to the max! Probably a good place to practice renunciation, eh? Living in Sedona, I had to go to Las Vegas a couple of times for business conferences, and the place made me almost physically ill! :eek2: Couldn't wait to get out of it. Hope you can take it better than I could!

    Palzang
  • comicallyinsanecomicallyinsane Veteran
    edited August 2005
    Thank you. I did live there for almost 11 years. I couldn't wait to get out. I am going in now with my eyes a little more opened than before. The part of town I will be living in will be well away from the casinos and the tourist spots.
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited August 2005
    Brother Palzang,

    How I sympathise! I was born and bred in London and I lived in Paris for a number of years so big cities should not be aproblem. BUT, on the rare occasions that I have to leave my small town for a city, I experience a deadening of spirit. 48 hours in Delhi left me almost prostrate. I can still recall the joy of my first breath of air as I got off the 'plane in Kulu!

    Were Hell to exist, IMHO, it would be a city!
  • PalzangPalzang Veteran
    edited August 2005
    Having been in Delhi, Brother Simon, I can certainly empathize! Worse still was Kathmandu because the city sits in sort of a bowl, so all the air pollution just sits there. It was so bad my eyes were actually burning! Loved the city, hated the air pollution. But the type of pollution in Las Vegas is of a different variety altogether. It is the sort of place that makes you almost ashamed to be human. But you're right, Comic, once you get away from the strip into the real city of Las Vegas it's completely different. That part of town, which is the biggest part by far, is actually quite nice, especially if you're into desert heat in the summer! But then Sedona isn't exactly the North Pole either. And it is a good place to make money because they do a lot of business there. I still think Stephen King was brilliant though for picking Las Vegas as the devil's capital in The Stand. What a perfect fit!

    BTW, Simon, where exactly are the Cotswolds? I've heard of them, but my knowledge of British geography is a little sketchy, I'm afraid.

    Palzang
  • comicallyinsanecomicallyinsane Veteran
    edited August 2005
    The funnny thing is that Las Vegas isn't even considered a big city. Everyone refers to it as a large town.
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited August 2005
    Palzang,

    The Cotswolds refers to an ill-defined region of gentle hills and uplands ('wolds') with woods and valleys which covers the area West of London from Oxford to the River Severn. It has been inhabited for at least 6,000 years and each culture has left us something. The Romans loved the area and we have a number of fine villas which housed family communities for two or three centuries.

    In the Middle Ages, this was sheep country. The wool merchants, living on the High Wold, were the basis of English economy. After the Reformation, weaving began and, in the 18th century, towns began to spring up in the valleys, along rivers and canals, where water-power was used for the "dark, Satanic mills" as William Blake called them.

    It is an area which is quintessentially English and my adoptive home. I live between Gloucester (Roman 'Glevum'), Cirencester (Roman 'Corinium') and Cheltenham (a Regency town). My own town has a wonderfully mixed community: light industry (which has replaced the woollen mills of which we now only have one), farming, large estates, Royals and lots of 'New Age' practitioners.

    I can bang on for hours about my area and its neighbours, such as the Royal Forest of Dean. I hope this has given you a small taste.
  • comicallyinsanecomicallyinsane Veteran
    edited August 2005
    Hi Everyone,

    I am now in Las Vegas and my car broke down about 100 miles fron town. I just had to laugh. While I was using the call phone on the side of the freeway it started pouring rain and I got soaked. I started laughing even harder. It was one of those quick, hard desert rains. So my friend arrived 2 hours later and brought me home to his house where I will be staying. My dad and I are going to try and fix my car tomorrow. Wish me luck.
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited August 2005
    Luck! Comic.
  • emmakemmak Veteran
    edited August 2005
    At least you could laugh... No point crying...
  • MoonLgtMoonLgt
    edited August 2005
    Comic,
    I'm Glad you made it, Good luck to you.
  • YogaMamaYogaMama
    edited August 2005
    Best of luck to you, Comic. I hope this all works out for you. I know how unhappy you were at your old job. I just had to laugh that it rained on you when you got to Vegas...I mean, really, how often does it rain there, and then your car broke down and it started raining!!! I am glad everything turned out ok.

    Simon - I want to live by you!! That sounds so nice!!
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited August 2005
    Simon is the typical estate Agent.... he forgot to mention the twelve-lane freeway and for 'Light Industry', read the nuclear Power station, not to mention the land-fill and industrial incinerator slap bang in the Forest of Dean! "Mixed community" means thirty englishmen and seven thousand travelling gypsies. "Each culture has left us something". I'll say - !! Have you seen the size of that Household re-cycling centre - ?!!?

    Actually, I'm kidding.....he's right, and I'm just having a swipe at estate agents. Guess who's trying to sell her house right now....!!?! :rarr: :lol:
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