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Sean D – Page 3 – Instant Sean

Author: Sean D

A Wonderful Life

Dear Credit Card Companies,

Thanks for sending me the 4th reissued card for my wife and I in the last year. It’s so reassuring you are so security aware, wanting to keep me and my family’s finances safe.

But wait, what’s this? A $150 charge on my account from Houston is a shocker. I was actually in Orlando Florida, (even notified you that I was traveling to Florida). Yet this charge still litters my bill. That must be why you sent me another set of cards. I’m thinking if I actually saved all the cards that you give me in a year, I could start tiling a bathroom with them. Instead of using them as tile, I shred them. I don’t have the problem like Joanna had when she forgot the new card and tried using the old card at your business. That sure didn’t work out as well as she expected. So instead of using your card, giving you a chance to earn your pennies, she paid cash. I’m sure this was a mistake, a typographical mistake. You’ll credit the $150 on my account as soon as you sent out those cards.

What do you mean how could this be a fraudulent charge? How can my card be used in multiple places at the same time? It has to be a mistake, you’ll be crediting my account any day now.

14 days later and oh, the $150 charge? That’s still on my account. You know it’s fraud but you still haven’t credited it back to me. Racking up that interest that you will hit me with at the end of the month! Ah tragedy, what more should I expect from the friendly folks who lend me money from the “Potter bank”? They get mad when I pay you in full at the end of the month. I must be a nightmare for you. I borrow your money and then don’t give you a chance to make more than a couple of cents on the dollar.

I’m not the customer you want. I know it, but I’ll try harder next time.

April 3, 2017
The beginning…

After careful consideration, I’ve decided that I will be spending less time on Facebook and more time on my website here at www.donahue.org. I don’t have to deal with Facebook’s insane algorithm. My goal is to find someone to help me create a new skin and post photos, stories and information where if I choose, I make the revenue. I would love for people to not give their hard-earned creativity to a site that selectively doles their talent out and not freely giving it to all.

I work in a creative medium and I spend too much time on things that most people will never see.

I intend to change that. This isn’t an April Fools Joke. I’m serious. My goal is to write more and be more creative. I am happier when I allow myself to be creative… Like it, good. Don’t like it, direct your complaints to the nearest brick wall.

I’ll see you here each day with my goal, to post something original… for me and not Facebook. I’ll be bringing back my writing challenge…

April 1, 2017
Dear Ryan

Sean’s rules of life for his son Ryan Donahue

Rule #1 Don’t mess with a Donahue. If you do, you will face consequences. Have pride in your family even when we argue. Everyone fears us.
Rule #2 If confused reread rule #1
Rule #3 Consequences are delivered at a time and place of my choosing. They may never be delivered. But I could be around the corner watching you, planning your demise or I could be at home, eating home made cookies. Don’t look out your window. I said don’t look out the window.
Rule #4 You make my kid cry, I make you cry.
Rule #5 Life isn’t fair, it’s life. Jerks sometimes win, nice guys sometime finish last. Try your best and you will beat 95% of people. The other 5% are lucksacks.
Rule #6 Karma is a bitch, easily angered, amused and mean as a kicked rattlesnake. Stay on the right side of Karma
Rule #7 Help a stranger, encourage a friend, love everyone. Be the bigger person and always take the high road. It’s more scenic and less traffic.
Rule #8 Love is fickle & hard. You probably won’t marry your high school love. If you do she’ll end up nothing like the woman of your dreams. Be patient, the right woman is where you least expect it. I found your mom and then Joanna Watson Donahue. Your heart should never heal easy. If it did, it wasn’t true love.
Rule #9 Work hard, pray harder.

And finally…
Rule #10 When the going is tough know you can always lean on me. Because that’s what Dad’s are for.

March 15, 2017
Work Is Better When It’s Fun

Today, I got a reality check. I’ll tell you about it in a second but I need to tell you a story first.

For years I had tried to prove my worth to others I respected. I worked harder to the loss of my first marriage trying to get their approval and it never came because in all honesty, I wasn’t worth their approval.

There are people in this world who crave attention, they try their damnest to tell you why they are important and “things you need to listen to them about”. But are they truly respected or just in a circle of self-esteem needy people. Yes, I am wrong more times than I am right, but the times that I change a perspective have more meaning than the times it would be better for me to direct my concerns to a brick wall. I am not a yes man, I am a realist who looks at things with clear lenses not rose-colored glasses. I do not know everyone I should but I am a connection or two from the person who can help me. I have friends who I have talked poker, politics, sports, money and social media. I am not an expert in any of those, but my ability to communicate is my best attribute.

Some people do not understand my hatred of empty promises, of hype with no payoff. Do not tease me with “guess who’s coming” because 99 times out of 100, it is not me. I probably knew months ahead of you concerts, events and things that would blow your mind, but you will never hear me say them out loud.

I don’t have to prove that I am worth your approval. Because in all reality, you are probably seeking my approval. Stop guessing.

My dad hated guessing games. If we couldn’t tell him what we wanted him to pick up for dinner without arguing, we would end up eating fish sticks. “fuck em & feed em fish sticks,” he would tell my mom.

You want me to respect you?

Don’t tell me that you are going to tell me 12 ways to improve my social media , especially when #5 will blow my mind. It never does. 9/10 the crap you are telling me is stuff most people know. Give me deep insights and I will follow you & share/repost. Otherwise, you are just chumming the water. Some sharks will come to get caught, but most will stay away because they are smarter than that. Why is there always a story of an uncatchable fish? Because he’s smarter than his predators. He eats alone, doesn’t get caught up like the eager ones and is the patient one. Oh, so patient he is.

I have spent the last two plus years watching Twitter chats and other social media groups and it always comes down to the experts who share, the experts who want you to buy their latest book and everyone else who claims expert status.

My friends and people who couldn’t give a damn about the words from a 21+ year radio vet, it is not about chats or world-wide tweet ups. I want honest to goodness relationships with people who want to work together so we will both will succeed together.

I always tell my interns that my goal was to see them succeed and when they entered reality that they never worked a day in the lives but enjoyed their job. Today I received an ACTUAL MAILED THANK YOU CARD (they do exist) from a former intern that no one remembered but me.

It read:

Sean,

It was great to see you the other day! I’m so happy you remembered me. Maybe one day I can come spin some tunes on the air! Hope to see you again soon!

Thanks for giving me my first internship! You taught me that work is better when it’s fun!

This simple card made more of an impact than any other moment I’ve had trying my damnest to please others.

Sometimes you just have to please yourself and the rest will take care of itself.

If I can help you, please ask. If I can’t, someone you know could use my help, please give them my contact info.

January 19, 2017
Regrets, Ethics or Anything There is a College Course In

Forward:

“I can’t afford regrets, ethics or anything there is a college course in,” I thought to myself as I took my first real job in radio, throwing away a career in sales at the Radio Shack. Looking back on that day, I wonder if I could do it over again, come to think of it I would.

I had worked part-time at the college radio station and part-time at the South Plains Mall at the ‘shack trying to get through the educational boredom at Texas Tech in the early 90’s. Boy, looking back on my life in radio, I’ve accomplished plenty.

But the stories that few have heard are the ones I need to tell. Like the time I connected Richie McDonald and his mom on an early conference call, walking down 4th on Broadway parade in an eagle costume and passing out at the Texas Tech fountain, and I won’t forget the stories of the people who my team and I have helped on the way.

Sure, I will change the names of the guilty, but those jackasses will know who they are. Cause this story, like most stories told by one of my college professor Johnny Hughes is 90% truth with a hint of bull.

So Josh McCormack, thank for the kick in the ass. I sure as hell needed it.

To my children Shelby & Ryan, everything I do, I truly do for you. To my wonderful wife Joanna, yes, you were asleep as this seed started its growth, but I know as I start on this journey, I expect you will aid me with plenty of fertilizing and weeding of my ideas. To my family, I blame you for my warped sense of humor and allowing me hamming opportunities that I have always thought was moderately funny. Okay, kind of funny. Maybe funny ut oh?

To “Regrets, Ethics or Anything There is a College Course In.”

Let’s ride!

March 9, 2016