Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is..
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:43 pm
Since I've returned from China three months ago I have found the experience and skills that I gained from living, studying and working in China for eleven years a tough sell and my efforts to secure a job using those skills were in vain...
On Monday I will be entering the Corrections Officer Academy for an eight week boot camp and then another eight weeks of on-the-job training before shit gets real. I really don't know what I've gotten myself into, but it can't be worse than driving around China on a motorbike, accepting challenges from random strangers in parks, eating most things offered to me and living in filthy, developing-country standards for years on end, can it? Regardless, I always like to say that what doesn't kill me will make for a good story!
Despite my reservations, I assume that at some point I'll need to test my art and it will be in the most realistic scenario imaginable. I didn't set out to do this, but here I am, putting my self on the line. If you never hear from me again then the art of Shanzhaiquan wasn't meant to be inherited to anyone!
On Monday I will be entering the Corrections Officer Academy for an eight week boot camp and then another eight weeks of on-the-job training before shit gets real. I really don't know what I've gotten myself into, but it can't be worse than driving around China on a motorbike, accepting challenges from random strangers in parks, eating most things offered to me and living in filthy, developing-country standards for years on end, can it? Regardless, I always like to say that what doesn't kill me will make for a good story!
Despite my reservations, I assume that at some point I'll need to test my art and it will be in the most realistic scenario imaginable. I didn't set out to do this, but here I am, putting my self on the line. If you never hear from me again then the art of Shanzhaiquan wasn't meant to be inherited to anyone!