Lessons

So I got this job, about two months ago, and it was pretty decent, don't get me wrong, selling water softeners isn't exactly a glamorous life, but it was pretty good money, and I was good at it.

Here's the kicker though. The company I was working for was a wreck at the beginning and couldn't get their act together for a while, so I was without work for 3 1/2 weeks after being hired. I had to wait around for all that time while they set up shop. They get things going, and I start working. The boss likes me. Tells me I'm going to start training other employees and reporting to him directly. Sweet. So some time passes, and I'm told that I "have a gift for sales". He wants to start showing me the ropes of being a sales manager. Okay, even better, sounds good to me. 

The result of all of this was me having to deal with the guy one on one like crazy, and what did I learn from it? I'm not okay with selling my soul to make money. I had to make the call of whether to quit because I couldn't handle the dishonestly/racism & stereotyping in this type of posistion, or to keep going despite my best judgement. 

I'm happy to say I made the choice to quit. I am now looking for full time work again, and even though that sucks, there's something bittersweet about it. That Toby Mac lyrics comes to mind "I don't want to gain the whole world, but lose my soul". I wish I could have learnt this lesson in a way that took less time, but Gods timing is better than mine. 

-Kyle Jenkins

Texas In July concert

THE BANDS:
Of Mice & Men
Woe is me
TEXAS IN JULY
Volumes
Capture the crown

THE VENUE:
The Sound Academy in Toronto

I don't really have a lot to say about most of the bands except for Texas In July. Of Mice & Men put on a great show, though I'm not really one for their messages. The opening band, Capture The Crown.. the clean vocals were unbearable. They use a lot of Auto-tune on the CD, I guess now I can see why.

Texas In July, however.. Incredible. Great songs choices, and they actually sounded good, and when you're talking about metal bands playing live, that means something. I did some crowdsurfing in a morphsuit and I think I might of kicked a few people in the head. Whoops.

Now, the interesting part of the evening. During the Of Mice & Men set, I was in the moshpit, and some guy thought it was a brilliant idea to start twirling around as if he was trying to evolve into a tornado. The result was his fist hitting me in the eye, and the ring on said fist cutting my face. Thanks, bro.

I found myself in the emerge room with blood everywhere and what was apparently a minor concussion; I didn't even know what venue I was at for a few minutes, and had a bit of trouble remembering what a "wallet" was when they asked me to get my ID. 

-Kyle Jenkins

This one goes out to the bloggers

I love reading blogs. It's kinda hard due to my raging ADHD to actually sit down and write one of my own consistently, but some of you can really write. There's this whole culture of blogging people that I wasn't even aware of, it's so much more elegant than the dynamic of something like facebook.
So yeah. You're cool. Keep writing.
For being awesome, I'm going to give you some info on the new band we're adding to the 3SN playlist this week. The lead singer is a red haired/bearded dude by the name of Matty Mullins. Super cool guy that I got to chat with at warped tour last summer. What's the band?
MEMPHIS
MAY
FIRE
I am so stoked to put them on the airwaves, you have no idea. 3SN has been getting some killer music lately. Tune in this Saturday @ 9PM and listen for 4 MMF tracks.
Awwwwww yeeeaaahhh
-Kyle Jenkins