Memoir – Wage-slave Career Continued

After a couple of months of side-jobs, I was sent to Diebold by a temp agency (don’t remember which one) to incorporate the new Sarbanes-Oxley standards into their technical manuals and business writing MS Word templates and spreadsheets. I was only there for about 6 months, but they were paying me $30/hr; the most money I’d ever made. That led to problems for me from my ex, which I’ve already alluded to previously

Note: It was the Diebold job that got my ex to take me to court to guarantee a fixed monthly payment to her, gleaned from my weekly paychecks. Even though I never again made anything close to what I’d made in my six months at Diebold. From that point on, I never again trusted her or our so-called ‘justice system’. She was making at least 4 times what I made, even with the Diebold job. No, I didn’t have a lawyer (I was broke; no money for a lawyer and  between writing jobs at the time), and the court didn’t appoint one nor did it offer to. Just awarded the ‘plaintiff’ what she wanted. I bowed to it only because I wanted to remain in my children’s lives… They had me over the proverbial barrel, just like they have all poor people. All my ‘jobs’ combined over the last decade of my wage-slave career averaged me little better than minimum wage… putting into question the cost and personal sacrifice of my ‘higher education’ (what a laugh)…

To be Continued…

–LE