Halotivational Poster

Posted by V10L3N7_JAY @ 7:07 pm EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments

Life comes at you fast...

If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Anyway I've been thinking lately about how I'm going to eventually support my family on my current salary once Michelle and I get married next September and we start having kids.
We get by now but thats on 2 salaries. At some point she either be pregnant or acting as a stay-at-home mom like she wants and I don't know how we'll afford it.

Today the answer came.

I work for a company that does sub-contracting work for Verizon. Alot of what I do involves installing peoples Fios services. I usually work with the one guy in our company who is charge of the Fios installations.
I find out today that he is leaving the company after Friday. The first thing I think of is "I wonder who will pick up his slack" Because he does alot for our company.

After a days work I get back to our yard and park the van, unload my tools and head to the office to see what I'm scheduled for tomorrow.
The company yard foreman, pretty much the head guy under the owner comes up to be and says ..
"Can you handle drops?" (Meaning fiber installs)
I say
"Yeah, shouldn't be a problem."
he says
"No I mean taking them over, totally"
I say
"Sure, I've worked with Junior enough, I know the deal."
He says
"Cool, thats what I figured."
and he pats me on the back and walks away.

This means 4 things.
1- I get a company cell phone now
2- I get a company truck
3- I no longer will have to work out of town for weeks at a time
4- I'll be making ALOT more money and can set my own hours because I just got promoted to foreman.


It was a good day.

Posted by V10L3N7_JAY @ 10:01 pm EDT | Permalink | 4 Comments

Problem partially solved?

So my last entry talked about how there's no high speed internet where I'm moving too and how I was screwed.
We talked to Time Warner cable (our current provider) to find out why there're not in that area since I work in the field of communications and I noticed that the main cable feed is indeed on the telephone poles down the street but not going by our new house.
Their answer was that not enough customers on that road wanted service so they couldn't warrant running service down there because they wouldn't make enough money on 1 or 2 services to pay for the materials.

I can understand that because like I said, I install main fiber-optic and cable lines so I know how much that stuff costs per foot. They said they would run a main feed down to our new house but it would cost us over $2000, meaning we're basically covering their loses for the service. And it would cost us less depending on how many more customers we could scrounge up on that same street. We needed at least 4 houses to sign up so that installation wouldn't cost us anything.

We just got back from going door to door and checking with our future neighbors.

We got 8 of them to sign up!

So it looks like I won't be losing my high speed internet afterall.

Posted by V10L3N7_JAY @ 6:28 pm EDT | Permalink | 6 Comments

This is gonna bug me

By the end of next month I'm supposed to be moved into my new house. The problem is I'm moving to a more secluded area and internet connects aren't as abound.

Right now I have Time Warner cable internet as a provider. My connection speed is over 2500 kbps download and over 950 kbps upload.
At the new house there is no cable or dsl available. So my only options are dial-up, or satellite.
Dial-up isn't really an option at all, so lets just forget that. And the best satellite can offer is a 1500 kbps download with a 250 kbps upload.

I'm screwed.

Posted by V10L3N7_JAY @ 2:56 pm EDT | Permalink | 7 Comments

Been a while

It's been quite some time since my last blog. Thought it was time for an update. I've been doing alot of graphics work, making webpages and such. But I guess the biggest thing is the overnight success of my web comic Section 3.
I put up the new issue last night, have a read...
http://www.unscsection3.com

Posted by V10L3N7_JAY @ 10:43 am EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments