James Patterson, The Worst Years of My Life 15 likes Like People always talk about how great it is to get older. He has been recognized five times for excellence in opinion writing by the Louisiana Press Association. The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson 22,173 ratings, 4.04 average rating, 2,545 reviews The Worst Years of My Life Quotes Showing 1-30 of 42 Every masterpiece comes at the end of a long line of failures.
And that isn’t even counting the time I was sued by the ACLU. NOTHING is as rough as staring down a group of Atlanta lawyers. Just…I hope I don’t have any more quite like that again. A least not in the last decade.īad days are good. Still make them with each passing 24 hours. And I’ve made a whole heck of a lot of mistakes since then. But, brothers and sisters, let me tell you I do learn from my mistakes. My good days aren’t as important as my bad days.
Anyone who knows me knows I am extraordinarily competitive and passionate. I did have a huge retraction to print, a come-to-Jesus meeting with the head of said LARGE bank chain in his office – that was fun – and pride so wounded I still have nightmares about it to this day.īut, in the end, it passed as all things do. Heck, being sued became commonplace – like changing socks. I would get sued multiple times before all was said and done in that chapter of my life. At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true. One of the biggest bank chains in all of the world. And before the clock struck five (the paper went out at 10 that AM) I was getting calls from lawyers in Atlanta. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. Maybe they just woke up one day and said “let’s see if we can get this young fool to run our bogus story and make him look like a jabroni.” Y’all like that word? Jabroni – thank you to The Rock. And for the life of me, I still don’t know what the endgame was. So since I tell you it was the worst day professionally of my life, you can imagine what the result was. Hell, I wanted to win a Pulitzer Prize at 22. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. He hits me with the figure of $250 BILLION. He spins me a yarn about lawsuits and a BIG BAD BANK stealing his family land. I didn’t know what I was doing but working hard was (and still is) all I have ever known. Tasked with a huge job that somebody my age probably shouldn’t have had. Well in a normally hot summer August, I had a kind gentleman come into the offices at 203 Dixie Street. Yep, a lot of you weren’t even born then, and if you were, you were toddling around in Huggies. So I thought – what was my worst day?Įasy.
I’ve been at it longer than what I have left. And I’ve got quite a bit of gray and have also realized I’m on the downward swing professionally. Its only when youre truly wallowing in the depths of pain and failure that you think, Hah Slap myself in the face Thats nothing compared to my problem. When you get gray in the hair, you sometimes start to think back about your worst day on the job. What was your worst day on the job? Not something you want to remember? Why? I cherish the worst day I exchanged hours of my life for the GREEN.
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