Schemes

I got a telephone call from an old "friend" a couple of weeks ago and he asked me if I wanted to grab some lunch. Currently this person is manager/part owner of a video production company here in Anderson, so I thought that he might need some help video editing (something that I enjoy doing). So we get some lunch today and I thought to myself, "this might be an awesome opportunity if I can get in with him." Oh how wrong I was. Sure, he wanted me to get in with him, but it was all part of a pyramid scheme. The story goes like this.
We're just sitting around talking and laughing when, BAM, he pulls out this pamphlet of information about this "mentorship" program. At first I thought that it had something to do with his business, but after about he opened up the brochure, I knew that I needed to run for the door. I didn't. He was telling me about how nice it would be to live a lifestyle that's much better than the one I am currently living right now. I thought that my lifestyle was pretty good, you know? I just wanted to vomit afterwards because I felt taken advantage of. I once heard about a scheme that you should send $20 to the person who sent you the message and they would do the same for their people before them. Then you send out a whole bunch of letters out and people send you money and eventually you end up with $800,000. Please. Maybe I'm just old fashioned but I've always felt like you should work for whatever you have. I hope that I can always do that.
Well, I've been praying a lot for the right place to go. Hopefully my last day will be June 1, 2007!