8 Random Things About Me
Olly of without hyphens has tagged me with the “8 Random Things About Me” meme. I think stuff like this is cool for many reasons - namely you learn some things about bloggers that you wouldn’t otherwise know, and also if you track your way back through the ‘tags’ you always find some cool new blogs!
First the rules:
- We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
- Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
- People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
- At the end of your blog post, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
- Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
Here are my 8 random things:
1. I have lived on the east coast of the US for my entire life - and I want out! :) I was born in Staten Island NY and lived there until I was five or six. Then I moved to a smaller town in the suburbs of New Jersey about 20 minutes west of the George Washington Bridge. From there I moved up to Boston for a short run at Northeastern University before transferring back down to a school in New York and living in Manhattan. After that, I moved back into NJ and have been living here in a town a few miles from my parents who still live in the same house we moved into from Staten Island. I’ve done a good amount of traveling for the average American (Russia, Norway, many places in Europe and the US…) but I would love to live somewhere else for a few years at least.
2. I went to school for Audio Engineering and Music Production. The school is called SAE and I went to their Manhattan location. I’ve been a ‘musician’ since I was very young and music has always been my biggest passion (and probably always will).
3. I do not work in the music industry. In what turned out to be a good move (in some respects) I decided to take a summer job after leaving SAE. The goal at the time was to earn and save some money before jumping into the volatile music industry. As it turned out, my summer job lasted about five years and I then moved to another company in the same industry where I’ve been for about two and a half years. What industry? Satellite Communications. What do I do exactly?
4. I am in Business Development and I’m not shy in saying that I’m good at what I do. At my last job I worked for a very small company and learned a lot about many of the different aspects of the industry and business in general. My main focuses however for the majority of my tenure there were marketing, advertising and promotions. I’ve used knowledge and experience gained there to shift gears with my new job and widen my scope. As Business Development Manager of my current company I’ve arranged several lucrative relationships and overseen the development of many new products and services. Our revenue has increased dramatically since I started.
5. I am Agnostic, and I have been as long as I can remember - even before I ever heard the word “Agnostic” or knew what it meant. I don’t believe in any conventional view of God, heaven, hell etc. I believe that there is in fact a “higher power” that affects everything in some way, but that it is so complex that there is no way the human mind could ever comprehend its characteristics, nature or significance.
6. I am a registered member of the Democratic party but I am not truly a Democrat or a Republican, or anything in between. When I was young my Grandmother once said to me, “All politicians are pigs. The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Republicans rush to the trough and devour everything inside. Democrats devour almost everything in the trough as well but they occasionally let some crumbs spill over for the smaller animals to feed on.” That stuck with me so i always vote Democrat.
7. Guilty pleasure: Most men complain when their wife/girlfriend/SO makes them watch chick-shows on TV. I complain as well, but there are a few I actually enjoy (don’t make me name them!).
8. When I was in high school/early college I had a four-gauge tongue piercing, a 12-gauge labret, and a 10-gauge prince albert. If you don’t know what that is, don’t look it up.
So with that, I tag…
Rita of Dotsisx
Anthony of S60Tips.com
Gabrielle of Tech.Chick.Blog
Stefan of intomobile
Christina of chistinad the video diva……….
Abdul of Living with a Nokia N95
Jaro of Nokia E50
C. Enrique Ortiz of C. Enrique Ortiz Mobility Weblog
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