Serge, why am I at the top of my game?

[CuriousToyBoy]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Jul 4 2004, 01:03 AM
CB,
I hear you....and value EXPERIENCE more than anything what life throws at ya...

I came to USA with $153 in my pocket,
18 years later, after divorce,
I found myself with beaten up station wagon, $458, and TON of experience.

It's GOOD to be dropped on your head from time to time,
if EXPERIENCE is in your luggage
;_)))

Serge,

Now we are on the same wavelength totally

You learn far more from your mistakes than you EVER will from your successes.

I have had, and continue to have, a steep learning curve.

Your story I have heard from others you know well in this biz who have similarly built themselves literally from the bones of their ass. Unlike some of them, you always give the appearance that you have not forgotten where you came from. That is what I respect.

The story of my meteoric rise and fall in my past life is not for these boards, but for my true friends. I have no one to blame but myself.

And I agree - it was the single BEST thing that ever happened to me (in hindsight of course), because it has taken me from being someone in those days I did not like, to someone today that I do.

I have said many times, here and elsewhere, that everyone in this biz was a newbie once, just some seem to forget that on there way to the top.

Your word "despise" I will pick up and use in the context of how I feel about those who may have made it, but have lost themselves along the way. Actaully despise is probably off the mark - I actually feel sorry for those people.

Me, I have retained much of what has always been me, before money, during money, after money and making it again.

Once an asshole, always an asshole.

And ALWAYS a straight shooter.