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26 May 2018, 02:09 AM | #1 |
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Real Name: Jason
Location: USA
Watch: Rolex/Tudor Divers
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!!!!GRAIL Has Arrived!!!!
Please bear with me as I tell a little backstory.
If you would have told me that I would own this watch at this time 2 years ago, I would have laughed at you. I didn't think that I would ever been in a financial position to buy one. Funny enough, I lost my job a week before Christmas in 2016. I am a CRNA and I had owned my own business providing 24/7 anesthesia coverage for a small hospital and employed 2 CRNAs. I had done such at the same facility FOR 16 YEARS!!! The hospital got a new administrator, and he felt that he needed a bigger anesthesia group with more resources, so he put the contract up for bid. I lost the bid. I was DEVASTATED. Without getting into the details, there was some history with the new group coming in, and none of the 3 of us were interested in working for the incoming group. This was partly due to the fact that they were offering all of us a 20% pay cut. After being in the same job at the same facility for 16 years, I honestly wasn't sure what I was going to do. I felt that my life was over. I didn't even really know how or where to look for a job. Well, a long story short.......One of the guys that worked for me was friends with an Anesthesiologist that owns a rather large anesthesia group that runs around 50 contracts at different facilities. One day, the owner of this group called me and offered me a job with his company without even seeing my CV. We had a mutual friend with integrity and that goes a long way with some people. I went to work for this new group and was offered a promotion within 3 months. 2017 was a very good year for me, and I made around double what I had made even in my best year of being self-employed. Now, I worked very hard, but that was part of the reason I rewarded myself with this grail. Sorry to be long winded, but I just wanted to give you a bit of a backstory as to how much of a sacrifice I have made in the last 18 months. I worked between 60-70 hours per week all of last year with the exception of 1 week off to establish my value to this new company and the administration. It has paid off for me. My wife gladly consented to my reward. DavidSW is the best THE Watch
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Best Regards, Jason Just Say "NO" to Polishing Card-Carrying Member of the Global Association of Retro-Grouch Curmudgeons LIfe is too short to wear inexpensive watches PLEXI IS SEXY |
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