Positive developments? #2

[jon2911]

Anyway Jon, the moral of the story is that there is a saying, in establishing a long lasting relationship, men seek out a woman like their mother, conversly, women seek out a man like their father. Need I say more?

Thanks for the story and advice dday.

I know that's the norm, but both SIL and W chose people completely different from FIL. He's an overweight CEO who looks and acts a lot like Potter from It's a Wonderful Life. Watched it yesterday and it's uncanny. Everything to him is about career, money, status symbols. He failed out of calculus 3 times, changed his major to business and has been extremely successful ever since. He's an incredible salesman.

I'm just not. I tried the corporate cubicle world for a year and a half, then sales for 3 months. I thought if I tried hard enough I could succeed in his world and impress him. It just wore me out.

Now I'm back helping run the site I helped found, it's right up my alley as a musician:
http://www.revostock.com

I have a passion for helping musicians make a living, and that's what we're doing. It used to be that to "make it" you had to get a record label and deal with the suits like FIL. Artists have hated that since the beginning, but the Web changes the rules.

Yes, most of the time I've just listened to him. He's so forceful it's hard to do anything else. Have you ever dealt with a CEO? I sat with him in May for my Amends step in recovery, and we had a good talk. We have such different perspectives, but I'm starting to see I can learn some things from him and throw out the rest.

As for actually standing up to him, W never allowed me to do that.