I Suck At Renewing My License

the other day, i received an official letter from the commonwealth of massachusetts.

the contents of that letter: an invoice to renew my license. too bad i suck at renewing my license.

for those who do not know, i am licensed to sell real estate within the state of massachusetts. that is one of those little known facts about me... like the fact that i exude awesomeness... and the fact that i skipped second grade because me is smart... just kidding. (i did skip second grade though.) another little known fact: i kick my friend's (hot amy) butt in every challenge imaginable. wait, everyone knows that fact. i guess there is that one little known fact that hot amy did win a challenge once... just once. she bet me that she couldn't drink her martini within ten minutes.

now, i figured that she could drink a martini in ten minutes. after all, who couldn't? nonetheless, i agreed to the challenge... probably because i had that one moment of mercy and felt bad for always beating her. plus, i was curious if she would throw up afterwards. (she did not.)

anyway, that is another story. i am licensed to sell real estate in massachusetts. the current problem: i am on inactive status... and probably the main problem... i don't work for a real estate agency. in order to become active, i have to work for a real estate agency (for liability issues) and i have to do some continuing education classes.

real estate has always interested me. i like looking at houses and seeing what could be as opposed to what is already there. the reason why i even have a license is because my friend (jenny) wanted to get her license as well. jenny, not to be confused with my friend (jen) is married to my friend (hugh) who was the best man at my wedding.

at the time (this was years and years ago) both jenny and i were not exactly working. i think jenny was doing odd jobs and i was looking for a job as a result of the "dot bomb" era in u.s. history.

well, jenny came up with the brilliant idea to sell real estate... so we both ended up signing up for the real estate class offered by century 21. at the end of the class, we both took the exam. from there... we both got our licenses to sell real estate.

jenny briefly tried her hand at selling real estate. she has her own daycare now. as for me, i never tried... but i always thought it was fun to be able to if i had to. instead, i found a job doing what i do best: computer stuff. (although, if i listened to my personality test in college, i should have been a firefighter or actor.)

needless to say, i have been renewing my license for no reason other than the fact that i could potentially sell real estate. with the housing market in this country currently in the dumps (and the fact that i probably will never attempt to sell real estate in the upcoming years), i am contemplating letting the license expire. i have a better chance of being a firefighter than selling real estate. i don't know. i have not decided yet on what i should in terms of my license.

another reason not to renew my license: my picture is awful on the license. i guess we'll see...