Help Brian Quit His Night Job
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I've delivered newspapers for the Corpus Christi Caller Times at night for 10 years straight now. In those 10 years the only nights I got off were extreme weather-related. 4 nights in 10 years, 3 of which were due to Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
I started in 2009 and have developed various health problems which are directly related to being on a night schedule for the past decade. I attempted to leave this job last December, at the time my medical problems began to escalate.
The health issues included high blood pressure and several episodes in which I had trouble breathing. That resulted in 3 very expensive visits to the emergency room of a local hospital. While I've been on a diet regimen for the past 6 months and have lost over 30 pounds, I really need to get off this night time schedule.
Here is the problem:
The Caller Times couldn't find anybody to replace me even after I gave them 30 days notice in early December. I was gone all of 3 days before they begged me to come back by raising my pay from around $400/week to $500/week.
Since I now had almost $15,000 worth of medical bills to pay off due to the emergency room visits during my breathing episodes, I couldn't say no.
While I now have a day job writing columns for the Epoch Times newspaper, I don't make enough to walk away from the newspaper delivery job and support myself solely on the column money.
So I have decided to try the solution of doing a fund raising drive once a year to see if I can raise the equivalent of 12 months worth of newspaper delivery.
I'll be very clear about this: this money is going directly to me. I'm not giving it to anybody else, and I'm not claiming to raise it on behalf of a political organization. It's specifically to pay my own bills for the next twelve months.
If this campaign is successful, not only will I be able to sleep at night, it will free up about 6 more hours of my time that I currently spend every single night bagging and delivering newspapers. That will mean more time to write columns and research political topics in the coming year.
I fully intend to write a book on the SpyGate scandal. Moving to a daytime schedule & not having to be up for at least 6 hours every night will definitely make completing that project far easier.
Thanks for reading, and God bless!
I started in 2009 and have developed various health problems which are directly related to being on a night schedule for the past decade. I attempted to leave this job last December, at the time my medical problems began to escalate.
The health issues included high blood pressure and several episodes in which I had trouble breathing. That resulted in 3 very expensive visits to the emergency room of a local hospital. While I've been on a diet regimen for the past 6 months and have lost over 30 pounds, I really need to get off this night time schedule.
Here is the problem:
The Caller Times couldn't find anybody to replace me even after I gave them 30 days notice in early December. I was gone all of 3 days before they begged me to come back by raising my pay from around $400/week to $500/week.
Since I now had almost $15,000 worth of medical bills to pay off due to the emergency room visits during my breathing episodes, I couldn't say no.
While I now have a day job writing columns for the Epoch Times newspaper, I don't make enough to walk away from the newspaper delivery job and support myself solely on the column money.
So I have decided to try the solution of doing a fund raising drive once a year to see if I can raise the equivalent of 12 months worth of newspaper delivery.
I'll be very clear about this: this money is going directly to me. I'm not giving it to anybody else, and I'm not claiming to raise it on behalf of a political organization. It's specifically to pay my own bills for the next twelve months.
If this campaign is successful, not only will I be able to sleep at night, it will free up about 6 more hours of my time that I currently spend every single night bagging and delivering newspapers. That will mean more time to write columns and research political topics in the coming year.
I fully intend to write a book on the SpyGate scandal. Moving to a daytime schedule & not having to be up for at least 6 hours every night will definitely make completing that project far easier.
Thanks for reading, and God bless!
Organizer
Brian Cates
Organizer
Portland, TX
