Addicted

Working for your own business is like a drug. You become addicted. Days pass in a blur and you lose contact with your friends. Every waking moment you think about another hit and you'd do anythign to satisfy the crave.

I wouldn't sell my friends short or business partner (hey Rob) as business isnt a dangerous drug but like Rob said you start to develop a complex if you arent high

Clients become dealers who keep you regulary pumped and also help pay for your addiction.

It starts innocent enough a few days here and there normal hours. Maybe once ina while you do it on the weekends. Then its every night and spare moments on the weekend. You do an all nighter, thanks Kinkos for giving me the strength to stay up all night, and think it's the norm. The laptop becomes your drug bag thing (the ones that people have needles, spoons and stuff in) that you carry everywhere.

Unlike a drug addict your arm doesnt get tracks but you get sore fingers and strained eyes. You don't leave the house and eat around your addiction. You also lie to your friends about if you been working. Ahh nah man im just surfing the web. la de da :)

Friends try to ween you off the drug but nothing helps. You try to let people think you run a normal life but it's a shamn. You cant go a day without your hit of work.

I think i just get obsessed with things and dont want to see them fail. I left the Gold Coast in 1997 to study in Sydney when i was 17 and having no friends here found it really easy to stay up all night doing homework. Also unlike highschool the homework was fun and also i was good at it. While at highschool i was doing english assignments and Maths at college i was doing CD covers, mag layouts and logos. Having little money also helped keep the weekends free to work also. If i fucked up then my mum would have paid my student fee's for nothing. And not having loads of cash that would have been hard to justify. oh I studied in Sydney but now I work at Bunnings Warehouse.... Oh, Isle 3 for garden hoses.

Since starting a paper run in primary school there have only been two periods where i have been unemployed.

1: after I was fired from McDonalds for disobeince and before i started at Target (5 weeks)
2: the period between leaving Gold Coast and starting at Woolworths (2 weeks)

Maybe if i got more (any) poontang in highschool i'd be alot different. Oh well. Hairy chests don't really get the ladies untill you get older i guess

well thats a random rant about me. Am i the only one obsessed with working?