Tuesday, February 25, 2014

This is my life story!

Born in Manhattan New York surviving a fall of my mother that trip with something killing my twin brother. My parents was forced to moved to Puerto Rico because my mother develop an emotional asthma when I was 2 years old. During my grade school I moved to so many schools because my parents was moving from house to house creating a very unstable family. At my 11 years old I had another encounter with death when I jump to a pond without a knowledge of swimming when my friends took me out almost without a breath. The thing that I did was jumping every time that I touch the bottom of the water for about a minute that seems to me like an eternity. After that experience guess who was swimming at the beach, the swimming pools and any body of water.
At the age of 13 years old I found one of my passions that was playing basketball. I became very good shooter from outside and our team won a National Championship in a league called "Little Guys". We appear in TV, newspapers and was received as heroes in our  hometown Canovanas. I was able to continuing playing basketball and volleyball in my High School Varsity and keeping very good grades. At 19 years was accepted at the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus in Business Administration. I was so excited to attend the best University in Puerto Rico by that time. After 4 years and a half I graduate with a Bachelor Degree. At 23 years old I was ready to start my working career, but was only a problem I don't have any experience whatsoever. My whole life I've been studying  that when my start to looking for a job I can't find a job because of lack of experience. I was desperate that even took the Air Force test and pass all with flying colors. When I was ready to joint the Air Force somebody talk me of a Federal Program called "Job Partnership Act" that pays the employers half of the salary for a years for candidates that don't have experience. I went to the interview with others candidates, when they called me to congratulate me for my new position with them I scream on the top of my lungs Thank you God!!.
Standard Refrigeration was the company that hired me as an accounts payable clerk. The company was in the construction field being a contractor for air conditioning, electrical, plumbing and metal work. I worked for about 5 years and a half and because of personal problems with my wife by that time. The last year of my time with them I was offered a huge promotion to be the Comptroller of the company at my 26 years old. My personal problems became more and more deep because my wife was complaining that I was dedicating too much time to my job and disattend her. After year of arguing and fighting we decide to get a divorce. All that was happening when I was getting this huge promotion and was not able to handle both. My biggest mistake was to completely hide the reality of my divorce in my job thinking that was a personal issue and part of my business career. Huge mistake!! When management found out that I was already divorced without saying anything all hell broke loose.  All the confidence that everybody had in me was gone. Everybody was saying if he lied with that what else can lie. All the responsibilities and duties that I had were taking away little by little until they ask me to take a demotion of position. I put my resignation after that and give the management a month to find a successor for  my position. Next week I will continue with my story!!!


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