Hi, My name is Jorge Hernandez, and I'm a Bridge Designer!

Hi everyone. I would like to give you all the great news that I started on my first full-time post-graduation job as a Bridge Engineer for the Arizona Department of Transportation's Bridge Group. I want to thank everyone who told me to keep it up and told me to keep my hopes up, I did and it paid off! I finally have a great job!

But I would like to thank the one person who stood by me, supported me both emotionally and most of the time financially while I found this job: Ashley. I love you babe! This would've been WAY harder than it was if it wasn't because of you. I love you so much and I can't thank you enough!

Aight, I'm going to bed because i'm an old man and I have to get up at 4:30 am every cot-damn day to go to work. So, I'll enjoy my weekend the best way I can: Sleeping.

Cheers!

A Million Little Resumes

Well. Today I went on my 3rd interview, now to HDR Inc. this morning, and I don't know why, but I feel exhausted. I mean is not like I did a whole lot today but I just can't explain why I am so god damn tired. Sheezh! Maybe I'm just getting old. But, I gotta thank Ashley for driving me there this morning and being there for me. I wish I could be half as supportive with her as she is with me.

So we get back to her apartment, and I change into regular clothes, and I just feel how my body crashes... aha! That's what It is! I'm crashing because of the coffee I had this morning! That's why!... maybe I should go make myself a sandwich or something. Anyways, so I started reading this book Ashley borrowed me: "A Million Little Pieces" and despite of all the facts that most of the book is a bunch of made up stories.. it still leaves you with a message and it still sends TO ME a message, a very clear message: THIS IS WHERE PEOPLE WITH ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE END UP. And yeah, even though the narrative and the narrative description of his vomit and fecal matter, and expletive thoughts are sometimes a little too much, well my friends - so is life.
Sometimes Life can be too much.
Sometimes life can feel overwhelming.
And Sometimes Life hits you not once - but maybe three times at once, where it hurts the most. But there is always a message in the end: Stay strong, stay focused and believe in yourself. Because, if you don't believe in yourself - no one will.

So, with this said, I get up from this computer and I get on to search for more jobs. Send more resumes. Get more interviews. Don't stop until I get where I need to get: Employment.

Cheers my friends, and may God (or whatever your higher power is) be with you.
Always.

Graduation Day!

Well, It's been about 4 months since my last post... I think(?) and well, this summer I took Statics once again and then went on to experience the hardest class ever in the history of all classes because, if I was giving my 100% on that class and I got a C... has to mean something, right?

Anyways, well I got great news: I'm no longer in College, BECAUSE I'VE FINALLY GRADUATED!! My degree has been awarded, and now I can be called George E.I.T. or Ingeniero Hernandez, or something like that... I have a B.S.C.E. (Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering) and I'm proud that, after all the shit I've been through, and all the years of being a careless, drunk-ass, stupid, irresponsible & inmature person... I still managed to got back on my feet, and got the oportunity to learn more about myself and to finally understand that there are bigger things in life than to get completely plastered, lose control of my person and to irresponsibly do things without thinking of the consequences. There is actually many, many bigger things in life than that! Like ... my relationship, my family, friends, traveling, learning new languages, see the world... things like that.

Wow, how deep! I apologize for rambling a lot, I'm just putting out all my thoughts about life, and just putting in "paper" what I want to do in my lifetime. Right now, I'm in Job Search mode and I'm not gonna stop until I find a job in a civil engineering firm and get myself on a stable job routine. Then, paying bills and paying debts, getting a car, an apartment and my own furniture, etc. Then on to live my life, cuz like my brother once told me: "life after college, is only the beginning!" and I agree, it feels like finally life is about to start, so.. here we go!

Enjoy this video, because this song was stuck in my head back in december of 2006 when I walked for my graduation... How I wish I could turn back time, and not do all the stupid shit that I did last semester... but God has its reasons, and he knows why I had to go through it, and I know that like my friend Derek would say:"It was a learning experience bro, just a learning experience."

Yeah, that seems right...

You Got Another Thing Coming!

Well, the gig didn' work as I thought it would. I mean yeah, we played live but at Derek's house and by the time we all picked up the guitar, Derek was drunk and there was way too many people. I know I'm loud, but there are limits... I can't sing on top of about 50 drunk people just screaming (not talking, cuz when you're drunk you're loud) but I still tried, sang like 3 tunes and my voice just gave up.

Ever since we haven't performed live cuz of finals, stress of finals and a lot of fucking drama. People being mean, people being stressed and putting it on other people, stuff like that. Right now, 8 of my friends left to Europe on a month long road-trip, Derek moved to Scottsdale for a month, Tobias went to Norway for the summer, Lufthansa (Roman, my german ex-roomate) went to Berlin for the summer too and well, this summer has been boring so far. Nah, I'm just kidding how can it be boring? Ashley & I are still in town and we've been hanging out all the time. She's been busy with her new full-time job and I've been busy with both a return to the great Arizona Student Unions and with a summer class.

What else can I say? Life is good, Life is great, and I don't think I can ask for anything more right now. I love my girl, I love my life, and no matter now bad things go as long as I have my family and my babe by my side....well, It can't be that bad!



Well Karma, I've done my part... and everything seems to point to you doing your part. So keep it coming!



Good night people, and remember..



CHEERS MATES!

A New Edition of: "Before and After"...

Hi everyone, I know I haven't posted anything new in a while. I apologize, I happen to have a life now so.. deal with it. Anyways, I would like to make a little excersice in comparison and contrast with how I used to be and how I am, and what things haven't changed. Shall we?

Before

I used to be like this:


This is me as I used to be; the good ol' brewski to the max. Didn't care about anything but making excuses, thought I had a grip on life and everything that needed to be known. Used to find excuses to get drunk or free-time to do exacty that, just get drunk. The only good thing about me that hasn't changed was my feelings towards my babe, I loved her and I still do. I thought I could "balance" drinking and partying and working and studying and thought I was doing great.

After:

Well, I have no photo to put here cuz my activity has been reduced quite a bit since new years eve. But I'll put one where I know I was sober, clean and just being myself.


Now, I randomly go out every now and then. Maybe once a week, maybe not at all.. I hang out with my babe every other day and mostly every weekend we spend it together. I go to church every weekend, I quit drinking and doing all sorts of illegal activities, I get nothing but good grades... oh yeah, and now I spend more time doing other things like driving to the phoenix zoo, going to a restaurant here and there, making dinner for me and my babe.. and get extremely tired at 10 pm. Also, I help my sister take care of my nephew... so I think you can tell the difference, right?

I guess the only thing that hasn't changed since before new year's eve is my devotion for music, my passion for learning new stuff and to learn new ways to improve myself (that is, be a better person everyday), and my love for my babe, Ashley.


I'd like to guess that I have finally taken a turn on life, not the other way around... So I'll catch y'all on the flipside. New adventures are coming, I can tell! ... Of a different sort that is.

Until then, CHEERS MATES!!!