My name is John. First of all, this is long, but very necessary to inform the situation. Please read everything…. You will be shocked with the details. From an early age, I have clearly understood value and the need to provide it to the customer. At age 10, I was mowing yards, picking weeds, washing windows, delivering newspapers, cleaning up animal waste. Doing the very things other kids my age weren’t. I looked for the need, then provided. Fast forward to 2009. I meet a wonderful woman who has two children. We become a couple and I take on the responsibilities of two children that are not biologically mine. Happily. I am working providing computer repairs and general sales to anyone who I can gain as a client. Offering excellence in customer service and true value. I have developed the ability to translate difficult concepts of many topics that normally confuse people into what I have coined “mom speak” I’m working hard. Growing a family and doing all the things a parent does. Laundry, food prep, rides to school, sports practices, games. Teaching responsibilities to two little adults along the way. I continue to move forward, working hard, pursuing “the dream” through contacts I am able to gain lucrative employment in the oilfield industry. I begin my new job, and very quickly I am faced with the first challenge I have overcome. Serious work injury.
I’m working, doing my job assembling a very large pump to transfer the fluids used in the drilling process from several tanks into one collection tank. It’s the first week of the job, so there are a lot of activities going on around the jobsite. I am in an 8 foot hole, tightening one of 16, 4 inch nuts to a bolt on a pump flange. Behind me is the supervisor of the site transporting a very large pipe on a lift truck. This is basically a forklift with oversize wheels on it made for uneven surfaces, etc. What I don’t know or see, is that he has made a mistake, and not secured his load properly. A 200 pound 5 foot wide steel pipe. Attached by just one strap. He hits a bump and the pipe falls off the forks, swinging down diagonally toward me like a pendulum. It drops 15 feet and slams into the back of my neck, head and shoulder. From behind. I am basically crushed. Knocked off my feet and at the bottom of the hole with a huge steel pipe pinning me against the ground. My hard hat cracked, almost shattering. I ended up being taken to the hospital via emergency medical transport and having emergency surgery on my spine and shoulder. Lucky to be alive. My spine had fractured and I have had to have double fusion surgery. I am lucky to be six foot three and have a large strong frame.
Several surgeries and over one year later I have gained the ability to work again. Now I need to make a living with my brain, not my body.
my daughters boyfriends family owned several restaurants and they are having difficulty staffing and struggling to cope with day to day items because of it. I need to work. To find out how long I can function without the pain I have come to accept as normal in my life. I volunteer to give my time to the restaurant to see what my limits are, and help him recover at the same time.
Little did I know this was my calling. My passion. My true talent. The combination of customer support, while crafting some of the best food I’ve aver made my entire life. Pizza. The customers absolutely loved me. My product. My story. The Business grew 70 percent the second month I was there. I had received a settlement from workman’s comp, and wisely invest it in my family, our first home and my first pizza store. I put down a large down payment, move us in to a duplex I have found while delivering pizza, and purchase my first restaurant.
Two months later, I purchase another. A year later one more. I now have over 40 employees and have increased sales at each store I own and have three locations. Life can’t get much better. Or so I thought.
I was about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. Long grueling hours serving the customer. Two junior and high school students with active sports team obligations. Challenges at home with alcohol dependence of a family member. Infidelity on my spouses part. My father’s death.
Challenges no one thinks they will be faced with in some cases. Several burglaries in my home. The last one where checks were taken from my office and used to drain my bank accounts. Theft was close to six figures. I had an employee living in the duplex, lying to me about getting on a federal program to pay back rent. He didn’t pay for 16 months. all these things combined with Covid have literally crippled me.
These challenges have also made me stronger. Kept me humble. Taught me many useful things. Brought me the most wonderful person in my life today. My wife.
I met my wife through a mutual friend. From the first day, we were destined to be together. A match. In almost every way. She is 20 years my junior, but honestly an old soul. Our challenges have been faced with dignity and truth. So many said she just wants the money, failing to see the connection and tenacity we share. We communicated without physical contact, for over two months. Built a strong friendship that led to much more. My wife stepped in after Covid hit, destroying the very structures I had carefully built over 11 years. She has spent countless hours beside me rolling dough, cleaning, serving the customer. Never asking for anything. Rolled up her sleeves and has done the very things others wouldn’t do. Work.
She asked me to marry her and I said yes, absolutely. She requested to be married in our store. It was made to be. It took me just three days on a shoestring budget, to put together the wedding. Priest who was a customer, employees present, store closed but giving away free product in celebration to every customer ordered. It was grand. The best day of my life. We have pictures in our wedding clothes, making pizza and working. All with a huge smile.
I faced huge debts, causing me to lose my stores to the franchise owner who took them away from me in the middle of a sale that would have garnered me over 500k. I got a letter demanding a huge sum in two weeks time or I would lose the store. We didn’t have it. I lost the store. We went from a million dollars income to zero eight months ago. My wife stands by my side to this day, two years later. I chose to keep employees during the pandemic, as I believed that to be the right thing. I put everyone that had helped me grow first, and have faced that decision every day.
I need to put me first again, to integrate my knowledge with reality and move forward. I lost everything but the knowledge I have gained, the most important things I still have. My duplex is currently on the market, and an offer is accepted, but the new owner is having difficulties with financing. If I do not pay the back debts, I will lose this duplex and all the equity I have built. I have exhausted all my options and have just 30 days left and need some help from the universe. Who will help? It will appreciated greatly, and used very wisely. I need a minimum of $50,000 to get back on track. To zero. I will work hard and I will succeed, but if I can keep this home, it will help substantially. If I must sell, then I will. I’m not afraid to start over.
thank you for reading all this. It’s just a snippet of my life. There’s so much more that doesn’t need to be said here.
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