In the works

I’m currently working on a story for a book and hopefully it’ll be finished before December, I know it may be a long time but, granted that I just started, I think it’s the conservative target to finish.

Anyway it’s a story about a middle-aged PM Contractor who, after being on the job for 11 years is considering retiring, and planning to buy a piece of property in Switzerland.

I think I’ll be able to share a page weekly, since I have a day job, it’ll also afford me the time to think about how the story will go and the plot and twists.

Wishful Thinking of an Ordinary Person

So, for the longest time I have always wanted to be someone important, an inventor, innovator, business man, investor, writer, race car driver. But for all the opportunities that came or none of it, I became another one of the many, a rank and file employee, staring at numbers, analyzing, and making something out of it, for eleven and half years. And Somehow, it took a couple of years, but I learned to be good at what I do, but it’s a job that I have no love for and only to make ends meet.

I did, however, became good at driving. Whenever I go to some other place at a considerable distance I google the place and the time to get there and try to beat it, I got pretty good at it and it’s always fun, to me at least, not to my passengers, they always don’t like it when I drive faster than the average speed limit. – good right? May be good enough to be a race car driver? I guess we’ll never know since I’m now on the wrong side of 20. Although Ken Block did start late by race car drivers average age however, unlike Ken Block, I don’t have a couple million dollars in my bank account. But I’m still planning to enroll in a racing school, someday.

Speaking of a couple million dollars, if ever my bank account reaches to a million (yeah, right!), I’d invest in stock, and let the bank do the work for me still, I would probably need an accountant for tax reasons. The profits I would probably bank roll for other worth while investments, like preserving nature or nature parks/reserves, organic farm land and farmers; organic produce is a bit more expensive than those commercially grown produce, may be a research would yield something that would not compromise the quality but would be cheaper selling value, real estate; investing in Eco-friendly apartment buildings, solar and/or wind energy – renewable energy is becoming popular these days. Investing in these industries can guarantee a reasonable profit, and I’d be doing the environment a favor. So many innovative products on the market today just waiting for an investor.

So, aside from driving, I am a novice in creating stuff from scratch, although they are not quite effective than I would like it to be but, could probably invent an innovative product, emphasis on probably. And what I lack in welding and electrical skills, I can most likely describe in detail, with a rough sketch to some who is, hopefully they’ll get the gist of the intended product. The product will probably sell, good enough to start a company, maybe, eventually I can set up a small factory and employ several staffs as a start, it could help lessen the unemployment rate, even by just a very small percentage.

Almost everybody, at one point in our lives wished or dream about becoming someone with some degree of authority and influence, the hardest part about it is getting started. And at the end of the day we endeavor to achieve whatever goal or goals we might have bit by bit. Emphasis on try, it’s difficult enough to get started with an ample amount of cash to fund a project, much more with less to start with. So, considering the risks, one might think and decide that instead of risking and pursuing what each one of us wants to be, we opt for a safer and stable job or career. I myself opted the same, I really did want to be a race car driver but, I ended up being a number cruncher even though I really hate math. But it hasn’t been that bad, it afforded me a life that I never thought I’d have when I first set out on my own.