I,ve been out of Elan for 12 years now, whats really strange is from time to time I still get these dreams where I am being re-admitted to Elan to serve 18 months all over again.During the duration of my dream I find myself saying , Omg this is really true, its not a dream anymore, I'm really at Elan.
Then when I wake up I'm like oh man I just had another intense dream about that place.
Mark and Jeffery tried there hardest to be intense on me during my stay but I never let them break me.I basically skated through the place.I was older then the other students and a little more head strong then them, and both Jeff and Mark realized that.
Yea I would get dealt with from time to time for fucking up but they had so much trust in me they would let me roam the complex as a worker.I was once shot down from coordiantor of the b.o. then became a worker of the b.o. and still carried out the task's and responsibilites of a coordinator.Tina Hicks looked right over me being a worker and still saw me as coordinator and every Tuesday aske me it the paper work was completed.
Hell even there was other residents in the b.o. I did their jobs as well, I basically ran the entire office by myself, except for the cleaning part, I let a shot down or volunteer do it.As a worker of the b.o. that was my one and only responsibility to do at the time.
I stayed contempt on running the b.o. evevn as a worker because I knew no one else could run the b.o. like I did and I always got all the proper paper work done and handed in on time.
During my last 3 months of Elan I remained either a worker or a Dept. head, but most of the time I remembered being a worker.
I enjoyed beinf a coordinator of the b.o. but loathed being c.o.d. I could deal with all of it, it was too much chaos.
Mark and Jeff use to say you have to deal with it,you need responsibilites and have to learn to take orders from other people.Because the truth is one day you will be out in the real world and have a job and there will always be someone giving you orders,I alwyas said, nope, I will not allow that to happen in life, I will own my own business and won't have to answer to anyone but myself.
Their response " You dont even want to go to college, how do you expect to own your own business?"
Reality today, I own my own business, never went to college married a physician and now have a combined income well into the six figures.Most of my week I spend at the gym, taking akido classes and watching movies on my 46 inch high defination wide screen tv.I basically live in a low stress enviroment, wake up in the morning when I want too, work when I want too and do what I want too.
So I gotta ask Jeff and Mark, am I successful or what?
Elan's main goal is to try and tell you how to live your life and how you go about doing it, bullshit!
I changed on my own and far after I left that place.When I got out of Elan I was doing drugs that I never tried before I got there because I heard about them in Elan and the effects it had.I partied my ass off for many years, had some low paying job to support myself and pay the rent.Life really didnt hit me until I turned 28.Here I was working for a friend making 10 dollars and hour being an exterminator.My friend who owned his business was a year younger then me thats when it hit me.It was like being in elan as a worker when your peers are coordinators.So I decided to open up my own landscaping and snow plowing business.And little by little it grew and grew.This past winter was very snowy and I made a ton of money.The worst would have to say is , yeah it was great except the times when I was making shitty money which is $500.00 an hour.$1000.00 an hour was the main income I was making during the plowing season.
Anyway if there is others out there that were told by Elan how to run your life and what you need to do, dont listen to it.When it is time to take control over your life you will know when to do it.The best freedom one can have in life is owning your own business.Follow your instincs and the money will come in.
