One good break can change everything// Z900RS SE Ride
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Telling a story how I got a great break that changed my life when I went into the Air Force while on a ride with my Kawasaki Z900RS SE
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If you like hear anotther Air Force story "Why I thought I almost started World War III" see the link below.
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Yup, if you live long enough, there’s breaks like that we can look back at that changed our lives. I had a break like that, I’m make it as short as possible. When I was 20 years old, and just married, my new another in law told me to take the test to try to to go to work for the USPS. I hadn’t ever thought of the PO as a place to work. I took the test, did extremely well, and was hired immediately. 36 years later I was able to retire from the USPS at 56 years old. I am extremely lucky to have been able to do that!!
I just wonder what percentage of people who get such advice but chose to ignore it.
That must have been incredibly frustrating held games up with Al. I guess they give you who you get to team up with so that read a bit of bad luck.
Bottom line you got away with it and as you say, you got that break, that shaped your life.
It all turned out well, but how frustrating.
Great story 🎉👍👍
I know I violated all of your video recommendations 😀 Im actually trying to use them where I can .
The ironic thing was about 15 years later the guy I protected was from the same career field that Al came from, unfortunately it cost me my career by shielding him .🤔
Just thought about when making this video.
Must have been worrying and frustrating times. In the end, you did what something that could have gone both ways but worked out well in the end.
I got a break many years ago. I was a factory fitter assembling pneumatics and wiring looms of semi trailers. The company buyer left unexpectedly and the then works manager asked me to help because of my product knowledge.
He sent me on a computer course, put me through the certificate in management and ultimately trusted me with a multi million pound buying budget. That guy showed me I could easily mix it with the university graduates. Set me on course to better things. His name Mark Young.
It is great to hear about giving someone a chance and then the situation works at well.
When I went to an Army reunion about 30 years after leaving it was great to tell the folks who really helped me how much I appreciated it..
As for a break? My last name is Laing, and I call it the Laing Luck. If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. But when I finally understood life was not going to go smooth, I found calm! I stopped fighting, and learned to go with the flow. Only 48 years to learn that!
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Great listening to you Flat Cap Racer. Yep the decisions a few good men [and women] can make a huge difference to ones life. There's a quote from an English writer George Eliot [Middlemarch]....
' for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.'
Look forward to hearing more, cheers man
Thanks Johny. Fortunately I was able to save two other Officer's careers by giving them a break although the last one ended up costing me mine, but it was worth it.
I got a break being born, it was quite a race. Been loafing ever since.
Not really, when I was 9 and my brother three years older, we were put in a Judo school that miraculously had moved to our little town behind where my mom worked. Four nights a week, four hours a night, competition in tournaments across the Gulf Coast region many weekends. That one thing she did changed our lives dramatically from the rest of my friends and family, back then few people even knew what martial arts were. We had a great teacher who remained teaching to the age of 81, died in 2016, and I was his protege. He was like a second father. That and my wife of 29 years was a break
Great story, missile school, new family, slow partner you depend on .... pressure defines us
Judo, I didn't see that coming. I took a Judo class in college.
When the Korean instructor paired everyone, nobody was small enough. A week later a six footer 200 pounder came in and the Korean instructor paired me with this guy
The instructor called us the bird and the worm because he threw me around like a bird does to a worm.
@@flatcapcaferacer I was a large kid, in good shape from always working with my folks. When I fought in tournaments as a junior, I always had to fight people two years older and heavyweight. My teacher called me Stump because I was Very hard to throw. LOL
I only taught a few clinics after my staph infection in my spine in 97, and retired in 2001 pretty much for good. I had rank in Karate also from teaching at a Karate school when I was younger for a few years, but Judo was my thing. Now it's Filipino knife fighting forms, about all I can do after my stroke
@rogerwilliams2629 Again something new
You showed outstanding patience with Al, it was the least he could do to forgive your moment of desperation in anger. How ironic was it that the " break" he gave you was a break away from his own incompetence. I've probably had several breaks in life but none which stand out more than when I wasn't given a break by an employer, when all I wanted to do was bring my wife and child over from the Philippines.
Having promised all the help I needed he turned on me when it came to the crunch, he took my job and the house and car which went with it. My battle to get my family together then took far longer but I remained determined and strong. As for my employer, karma kicked back good style several times over, one of which I wouldn't have wished upon my worst enemy. His daughter threw herself off of a bridge, I guess she too felt unsupported 😢
Your employer really suffered, I couldn't image how I would react to such a tragedy. Al was a good guy just in the wrong career field. I was embarrassed and regretful of my loss of control. I also didn't react as well as I wanted to the pressure.
@@flatcapcaferacer I've lost control several times in life, usually for good reason but sometimes with regret. It's part of our fight or flight nature and to be honest I don't think I'd have survived without it. I'm finding with age that I'm less able to cope with working under pressure without boiling, especially when those around me are lacking in responsibility or thought for others.
I used to be more grounded but then people around me also used to be considerate of others. Take today's drivers, more interested in their phones or getting ahead than others safety. If someone endangers my life or anyone else's, I'm afraid I'm going to let them know about it in no uncertain terms.
Thank for the kind words Michael. I think the attitude of the general driving public is the same thing or probably worse for air travel. Anything less than three days driving keeps me off an airplane.
That had to be a stressful time with Al!
I probably could have handled the outside pressures better today but not execute the weapon system or launch processes. Some people are blessed to have emotional maturity very early in life but it has taken me longer.
At the end of the day you had the forsight to take action without such you would not have suceeded. I don't suppose there are many who would have put themselves on the line. The Instructors should have realised that Al was not up to it a lot earlier. Great story.
I guess they just wanted to make sure Al had every chance which was fair.
Have a funny feeling, I am Al. Dyslexic and as fast as I can read is how fast my finger moves
No, not unless you roll a cigarette pack up in your short sleeve tee shirt and carry a six pack around.😄 Hopefully Al went on to a successful career a pretty good fellow, I should have been more patient.
@@flatcapcaferacer I would disagree, Al was like me. Really intelligent, but unable to perform some activities slower then most. I hated reading and did not do well in formal training. But if you show me it, I learn quick. You showing him where the numbers were, he never forgot. I think I know how his brain might work. Best teacher: I say, I do. You say, I do. You say, you do. Just how I learned. Not "here is a sheet of instructions " I needed to perform and do the activity.
@@BlakesPipes I generally cut people who are efforting a lot of slack but after 10 weeks he was putting in the minimal effort. I explained several times that the outcome would different for him than it was for me. Perhaps he was wanting to go back to his other career field because he thought he made a mistake or his brain would freeze up when he was being timed, he never told me. I wish I could talk about it with him now.
@@flatcapcaferacer well, I can't say I ever did the minimal unless I had seen it was a waste of my time and it was only me to be responsible for. I was always the one if you asked me to do something, I would go above and beyond to perfect. Then be told to do the next thing. Now I do things I want, tired of doing things for others that do not respect my talent. I can step back now at age 50 and see things the way they are and divide my time to what is important. I don't know Al, but I can understand him. I did think I was a dumb ass for quitting my good job, to become a therapist. Then became one and loved it. Then our government screwed that up in 2019 and then it fell on me in 2023 with the back injury. Fat person took out my livelihood. And here I sit fat, due to inactivity. Strange how life changes. But I do see it from all angles. Al is just fine. As it also built you to know your point of frustration. We learn from each other.