How it all began

When Syler was 18 years old, he moved in with his grandparents Judas and his wife.  Let's not chat about Darcy and Spencer just yet - that story is more involved than this one..... 

After moving in with Judas and wife, Syler started working for Judas' company - for free nonetheless.  Judas paid for Syler to go to community college, and in turn, Syler worked for free in his spare time.  Strike one!  In any normal family, or at least the family I was born into, a grandparent would help out in anyway possible without asking for anything in return.  Not so in this twisted family.

This is where the story begins.

Syler worked for Judas f.o.r. f.r.e.e., with very little in return.  Well, they 'payment' was that Judas would pay for college......community college.  Why would my wonderful husband ever question his grandfather.  At the tender age of 18, after coming out of a household where mom and step-dad lived in complete selfishness and obvious favoritism to a select couple of children, he trusted his old little league coach - his grandfather.

Eventually Syler would go on to make around $8 and hour for work as an engineer for Judas.  Did you get that?  $8 an hour.  Granted, this was in the 90's, but still, who the hell gets paid $8 an hour for engineering work?  Slave laborers, that's who! 

Syler spent many years being underpaid by Judas, eventually making a whopping $30k a year even after we were married in 2005.  Working full-time.  With a wife.  And a house. In California.  In the heart of the Bay Area.

Why did he do this?

Because there was a promise of something better.  Judas continually dangled a carrot over Syler's head.  He promised that one day he, after retiring, he would sign the company over the Syler.  In the meantime, Judas was hoping that Syler would bring new and fresh ideas to the company so he can make a name for himself and get started on his own journey as a businessman.  Empty promises.

Syler started his own company with Kade, apart from anything he was currently doing. 

Separate.

For years Syler worked on this company idea with Kade on the weekends and at night, eventually realizing that they would need a financial investment, they brought the idea to Judas.  After much thought and prayer by Judas and his wife - more on the whole God factor later - they decided it would be a good opportunity to expand the current company and allow for Syler and Kade to venture out in business together.

Everything is good up until this point.

But there was a promise.  A promise of something more.  A promise to venture off on his own.  A promise to take over the existing company when gramps retired.

A promise that never came to be.......