![]() ![]() I burned out on college pretty quickly because I was surrounded by the same people, the same culture, I grew up with. I tried to make as many mistakes as possible, just to see the outcome and build off of it. I wanted to put myself in situations I had no experience in and see how I did, see if I could do it, to learn the depths of my potential. In retrospect, it was to get to know myself. ![]() What other life goals did you pursue in lieu of finishing college? I'll finish someday I guess, just to accomplish something and become a bit better suited for the job market. I studied English for a couple years before I bailed and wailed out of college to pursue other life goals. What is your educational background/area of study? I've actually spent more than $200 on one trip there and then got stuck carrying all those books back in luggage. ![]() ![]() If you've never been to Portland you must take a visit and check out Powell's Bookstore - it's magnificent. Unfortunately, Portland is experiencing a great deal of gentrification and a whole lot of new money is pouring in so it's starting to price out the starving artist appeal that it had when I initially moved there. Omaha seemed like a place where neither open-mindedness or creativity was in a great deal of supply so Portland was like paradise for me. Everyone was very open minded and creative which gave me reason to continue my craft in some fashion. Portland was wonderful, there were a lot of artists and writers that I was able to connect with to share brain space and talk about weird shit. If you guys could wire me a few thousand bucks to make this dream come true I'd greatly appreciate it.Īs someone who nearly moved to Portland after college myself, how was Portland? Was it to your liking, or did you feel the need to leave eventually? Ideally I'd be able to head to Ethiopia or Kenya and see how the coffee growing communities are fueled by the world's most powerful hot beverage. Is your plan to stay "somewhere in America," or will your coffee-driven desires drive you elsewhere, perhaps closer to the source of what you need? Where do you live now, and where did you grow up? I started working there when the park first opened and have worked every series since - I was lucky enough to have a boss in Portland who was an Oregon State alum and was more than happy to let me escape for a month in June. The best job I've ever had was working on the grounds crew at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha - home of the College World Series. I worked for Gallup for 3 weeks when I was 17 and made outbound calls asking anyone in America if they believed in angels or if they possessed ESP and only got paid for surveys I completed. Some odd, some not.Īre you chained to a desk job, or do you slave away at a job freed from those particular restraints? What's the worst job you've ever had? What was your favorite?Ĭhained to a desk, slaving away under fluorescent lighting. I sell my soul for 40 hours a week to earn a paycheck and pay the rent. While many choose not to define themselves by their job, what do you do to make ends meet? For how long have you been plying that trade? Standard dating profile questions: Age? Sex? Height? Hair color? Marital status? Kids?Įarly 20s, male, average, brown, single, none. My fandom began burning ever so brightly after realizing his ignorance just to spite the fucker. What really sealed the deal was when I was working one morning with some square from just south of Portland who didn't know there was a baseball team in Kansas City-he also claimed to be a big fan of baseball. It was really nice to come home after work with the game starting at 5 and ending around 8, leaving a good chunk of the evening open to be a 21-year-old kid in Portland. I fell out of love with baseball when I got into high school, focusing on the more juvenile pleasures of life, but my love was rekindled after moving to the Pacific Northwest and being gifted a MLB.tv account. My father was and still is a fan of the big league team, always regaling me with stories of listening to Denny on the radio during the '70s and '80s. My grandfather had season tickets to the Omaha Royals, so I spent quite a bit of my summers at Rosenblatt Stadium as a kid. What brought you to the Royals' front stoop knocking on the door to be let in? Perhaps more importantly, why did you stay? While we're all much more than just being Royals fans, it is the tie that binds us. This week's subject in the Better Know a Commenter series is a man who is always doing the Lord's work, converting non-believers to coffee, one mug at a time: royalcoffee. ![]()
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