Hi…. and welcome…

So, this is the first post on my new blog. I suppose, really, that I should introduce myself and give you a rough low down on what this blog will be about.

My name is Benny. I am 32 and semi-obviously… a bloke. I live in the UK, and work for a living in restaurants.

I have been in the restaurant industry for, on and off, 15 years. 10 of those years with the company that I currently work for. I had an epiphany just before the beginning of this year and decided that enough was enough… Time to design a life for myself that fits better with with where I would like to be in the future. 2009 was going to be ‘my year of change’.

Bizarrely enough, when I was in my early 20′s, I was a bit of an animal, always drunk or high, and would tell my mates that I would be dead by 32 (I think I thought I was going to go out in some rockstar blaze of glory, but here I am with only 7 months of 32 left, and sober… scarily sober). Maybe, I am subconsciously starting a new beginning instead of hanging up my boots, or some herbalist karma bollocks like that…

All I knew at the beginning of the year was that I was going to have to do something different. I quit drinking, apart from on holiday this year, and tried applying for different jobs… The jobhunt lead me nowhere. At least nowhere useful. I can get jobs.. if I get an interview.. but unless it is in the catering industry I would have to start at the bottom again pretty much… Which means a cut in pay…

I turned my head to re-education because tbh that was the only thing I could really change that wouldn’t cost too much. I started to read a lot more.. all realistic self helpish type books, no romantic novels for me!! I became a huge advocate of the quote from Mark Twain ‘I have never let my schooling interfere with my education’.

Anyway, I digress. What I am supposed to be explaining to you is what this blog is going to be about. To put it quite simply, this is going to be a blog about what I am doing and stuff that I have used to get me here. Hopefully pointers and a help to anyone who fancies trying to do the same or similar.

There will more likely be a booklist of books that I think are good, seminars and topic posts, hopefully all kinds of cool info and places to hunt for more.

So, here I am in a hotel room in London. I’m going to be hitting the hay in a second because it is an early start in the morning, 7am, and will be embarking on my first course with the RichDad Education crew over the next 3 days.

Vive La Resistance!!

I’ll speak to you tomorrow