7-Day Wayback Music Challenge - 4th University Year and 2nd Period in the US

alexvan (74)in #musicwaybackchallenge • 6 years ago

Jay-Z - Dirt Off Your Shoulder

@uwelang has nominated me for this challenge. It is the sixth day of the challenge for me.

Let the music play.

I will skip the first 4 years of my university, as I talked about my first year in the last post. I can say that it was a continuous fight for improvement and the first year was the worst. I lost my scholarship and the good money coming from it and was almost failing the first year. I recovered in the 2nd and 3rd year. I can say that in the 4th I was doing pretty well. I did some good money doing projects for other colleagues. For some classes, we had a projecting part where we had to do either a research, a model or a big calculus until the end of the semester. I found here a very good opportunity of making some cash. I teamed up with a colleague who was good at programming and we sold this projects. My partner made a program where we would have to input the data and in the end, we would have a different project written for our customers.

I decided that year to go to work in the US for the summer with work and travel. When I arrived there I quitted in the first week the job I had to do. I was supposed to work as a lifeguard. It was not worth to do it. I took two jibs one from 8 am to 6 pm in construction and a second from 7 pm till the open end in a restaurant as a waiter. On both jobs, I started low, like in construction from cleaning the construction site and climbed till managing jobs and doing paperwork. And all this in 5 months. I had to go home to finish my university. In the restaurant, I started waiting one table finishing with waiting parties alone. It was a glimpse of the American dream.

I choose this song as this was one I've listened in 2005 in the US. Jay-Z is one role model for me and a perfect story from rags to riches through hard work. He is the modern American dream. The song is coming to an end so I will draw a line here.

Thank you Uwe

I nominate @flipstar for this challenge as it is his day today, the #RapThursday.

The rules:

Choose one song from your high-school/college years.
Write a few words about who made you listen to this song for the first time, what this song means to you (Was it a breakup song? You blasted it at 100% on your audio system when you were partying with your friends?) whatever you want.
Write your text while listening to the song. As soon as the song ends, wrap up what you where writing and submit it.
Do this for 7 days in a row if you get nominated
Mention one person who should do this on each day.
Tag it with #musicwaybackchallenge and include these rules at the bottom of your post