Forum Overview :: Tales of the Sword Coast :: Don't be fooled by the man pretending to be me. I only have good things to say.

[quote name="Quétinbec"][quote name="Quétinbec"]INC probably thinks he has me on this one. The truth is I just got all the things INC hopes will make him happy - money, a career, a fast car - in half the time it's taken him, and it took me about three weeks to confirm to myself how sad that life is. I'm the guy who got everything you ever wanted, INC, and then did the one thing you can never do - I walked away from it. Even without your ugly wife and spoiled kid depending on you, you could never give up that life because you'd realize there's nothing else the world has to offer a pathetic video game writer in his 40s. On the money I saved up during my three weeks in Bahrain I could live in Southeast Asia like a king for four or five years without even having to think about getting a job. Could you do that? Would you? Of course not. Your whole life is pointless now, thanks to me. Good luck with the rest of it, be sure not to bore to death with the details, you pathetic cunt.[/quote] You fucking idiot. My life isn't great for <i>those</i> reasons, and I couldn't care less about making INC feel small now. I was arguing with INC and Fussbett to convince <i>myself</i> that I was making the right life choices; I never really gave a fuck what they thought, and reality has proven me right, so why would I waste time putting those idiots down now? That battle was won as soon as I walked into a 3 bathroom apartment. Today I wanted to whine about some of the things that have been annoying me over here. You would have enjoyed it. Unfortunately, people here have mistaken your stupid imitation of me, for me, and now I feel a bit defensive, so instead of whining I'm going to boast to make myself feel better. Like everyone, I'm much more interesting when I whine, so try to keep yourself in check in the future or I'll wind up boring you with more boasts, and much more importantly, boring myself. When I bore myself in your company, that's the end of our relationship. Things have changed. I'm living an amazing life now; I'm not just talking about it anymore. I can walk away from this forum and come back in two years and tell you all about it after the fact when I have nothing better to do as I've done in the past, or you can be a part of it live. It's up to you. For the moment, I don't need your attention or your use as a sounding board, and because you've become a much smaller part of my life, I'm going to tolerate a lot less of your bullshit. Anyway, boasting: I found out that I am on the second to lowest rung on the pay scale here. There are a small group of TEACHERS from the first intake before the salaries were adjusted that still have a year on their contracts and are making MOTHERFUCKING $250,000 NET for teaching 20 hours a week of English. This is something that is happening in the world right now. Also, if I wanted to go to Libya, I could work 6 weeks on, 6 weeks off with them paying return airfares anywhere in the world for my 6 weeks off, for a total of 7 months a year, and make $180,000 NET a year. I'd have to live in a caravan in the desert while I'm working though. :( There are 70 new foreign employees in my intake. Every single one of us is blown away by what we've been offered. None of us start work for another 3 weeks. The Arabs are the laziest people on earth and we're only asked to be slightly less lazy than them. I have a lot to say about this but I'm not in the mood right now. There are people who've worked 20 years at Lockheed Martin, GE, Boeing, BP, etc... who all agree this pisses on anything the West has ever done for them. My plan was to spend $150-200 of my $700 weekly accommodation allowance and bank the rest. Instead, me and four Irish engineers/IT guys are in the middle stages of using our combined housing allowence of $3,500/week to rent a 7 bedroom beachside Villa with pool, spa, FUCKING SQUASH COURT, 2 permanent live in maids AND AND AND AND AND agreeing to, as a group, drop back a couple of classes in our personal rental cars, and put the difference towards a different luxury rental car each month, which we'll take turns driving. So, one month it'll be a Hummmer, the next a Porsche, etc...!!!! We'll each have days with it, and over the course of a year, we'll be very familiar with a bunch of cool cars! And when we go home, we'll be saying how a Porsche is worse than a fancy BMW for the following reasons: X Y Z So fucking hell, man! I can't imagine there being any cooler setup in the Persian Gulf. This is shit that is happening and I am seeing it happen but I cannot believe it and it feels like some kind of fucked up reality show. Every night I go and swim in a pool fed by two waterfalls and watch searchlights from the different fast-breaking feasts pass overhead with Islamic chanting in the background. I am in the middle of a desert in what 15 years ago was ocean. Anyway, in light of all this, I'd like to stress again that you shouldn't fuck with me at the moment. I know I'm not much fun to listen to when I'm like this, but I don't feel I should be any better when you act so poorly towards me. I could very easily move what few conversations I want to have with the people here to email and IM and kiss this forum goodbye for a few years. Given the change in the nature of our relationship, you're better off just being nice for a while until I get my head around my massive change of fortune. I'm not going to be very tolerant of bullshit until I come to grips with this change. [/quote]