Letters From Dan

This blog has been 100% written by me so far, but I don’t anticipate that will be the case forever. My blog is really about sharing what I know, what I’ve been fortunate to learn, stories I’ve experienced with friends and where I see the future of internet marketing.

My experience comes from finding out too late that babysitting sucks. . .

• mowing lawns and shoveling snow to make money no other kids had
• getting stuck in an “igloo” trying to ice the inside
• learning that not every school has an ice rink
• working at a cemetery with ex-cons
• picking produce like a migrant worker
• building city roads of brick by hand
• haying fields
• delivering papers in the rain
• working at Blockbuster on Christmas Day and New Years Eve
• catering to the Beach Boys and Huey Lewis
• selling cassettes and CD’s to music junkies
• pulling 1,000,000 staples out of a parachute that had been affixed to the ceiling of a basement
• managing a restaurant on top of a baseball stadium
• serving Warren Buffet hot dogs and Deborah Winger a Coke
• breaking up a couple fornicating in the bathroom
• finding out that high school sports in Nebraska make high school sports in New Hampshire look like childs play
• feeling lost when my manager quit by handing me the keys and leaving
• disc jockeying fraternity parties as the only sober guy
• mc’ing pep rallys
• moving 13 times before I was 20
• being in Auschwitz concentration camp on my 21st birthday
• playing Santa Claus at the mall and suffering through the smell of the beard-stink
• saving a Russian friend from being beaten by a drunken Romanian
• traveling home from Paris by train alone
• living in an apartment working at a truckstop
• dancing whenever I get a chance
• learning that employees of Wells Fargo Financial try to rape their customers with high interest rates
• finding out that I’m good at project management
• getting lost in a desert while able to see my car
• learning that an excited call to your parents that you’re pregnant isn’t met with the same excitement back
• quitting  jobs just to move to other states and finding out that procrastinating on a vasectomy comes with a 20 year reminder sentence.

Oh yeah, my favorite things in the world are Oreo’s, March Madness, dancing, my family, and seeing the amazing accomplishments of others (especially the one’s done under great stress).

Please join this discussion. Leave comments, follow me on twitter (danrmorris) and tell me about your world.  I look forward to our acquaintance.