HBO's "How I Made It In America" owes me and my friends royalties

If you've started to watch HBO's new comedy series "How I Made It In America", then you have seen a slightly glorified look into my life. To be more accurate and fair what you have seen is a slightly glorified look into the lives of me and my friends. All the characters on the show are just better looking versions of my friends and I with the character roles slightly mixed up.
The premise of the show in a nut shell is about two friends who try to make it big by embarking on highly entrepreneurial hustles. Well that was exactly what my friends and I were doing when in our mid twenties. A character on the show credits another character in the show for, "making the coolest t-shirts in high school," something my friends and I got into well before the start of this show. Shoot, there's even a character on the show that portrays your typical wall street deep pocketed loser. Which for except for the deep pocketed loser part is a perfect portrayal of my present station in life! At the end of the day I see a little piece of my friends and I in all the characters on the show and I'm loving it!! This show has some promise. Please catch it on HBO and get a better idea of what my friends are like but more importantly what I'm like.
Some facts that contrast the show: the show takes place in NYC, well while a lot of our endeavors took place in NYC me and my friends are in fact Jersey boys. Ok, thats pretty much the only difference.

A little more for ya

For the past 4 years of my life I have been gratefully employed at The Bank of New York Mellon. This job was my first real job out of college and really my first real job in life. Previous to this I was your typical wet behind the ears college student freeloading off mom and dad all the while finding time to party and get drunk when I wasn't studying. To supplment mommy and daddy's generous givings I would support my self through various entrepenurial endeavors, for example at the time poker was an up and coming craze. So, I took it upon myself to find a way to make a little dough to capitalize on this craze and began hosting weekly games in my parents' garage. I was able to not only support myself for a few years doing such a thing, but I was also able to fully fund a trip to California doing so. Slowly but surely people began to see how lucrative hosting games were and more and more games started to pop up. The increased competition made it more difficult to host a game so I moved onto the other side of the felt and started to play the game instead of hosting it. For the last year of college it was a tough hustle to make any money playing poker and the jury is still out on if I actually did made any money at all during my "career". It was a weekly rollercoster ride of ups and down, wins and loses. But boy, the weeks I won were some of the best weeks of my life.

College for me came to an end in the winter of 2005, I can still recall the feeling I had that morning I took my very last exam as an undergraduate student. I can only describe the feeling as a remorseful bittersweet excitement. Here I was ready to graduate college and move on to the next phase of my life all the while remembering how great the last 4 years of my life had been. Early that next year my career at The Bank of New York Mellon began.

It is now 2010, approximately 4 years since my career in the financial industry began and I am currently enjoying my last week at my present position. Not even I was able to avoid the destructive path of this economic downturn. Similar are my feelings now to that morning I took my last exam as an undergraduate student. I am remorseful for having to say goodbye to all the friends I have made along the way. Either in person or over the phone, the connections I have made were truely genuine, refreshing and enjoyable. Bittersweet, in that while I have to say goodbye to lots of friends I will have the opportunity to say hello to new people and make new friends. Excitement in that I'll be moving onto a new stage in my life that has promise for bigger and better opportunities. Heres to the future...

As a side note, no one wanted to be with me when I had a job... My soon to come unemployment probably isn't going to help matters further. Oh well, heres to staying single.

A Little background on me

In an effort to keep things short, I would say I'm best described as run of the mill normal. There is nothing extraordinarily special nor nothing extremely deficient about me. At least that's how I would describe myself, I'm sure other people would beg to differ. Depending on who you ask you'll most likely receive sentiments of high praise to high levels of resentment. I believe each end of the extremes is a better gauge of the opinion giver's character than my own.

I'm done, more to follow soon.