....WHAT. JUST ALL MY WHAT.
Listen. Nobody made you do the things you've done. And nobody can fix the mess that you've made of your life but you. You want out of the no-tell motel? Then GO TO WORK. Work freelance, driving Uber and Lyft. Work freelance on some of the transcription sites out there, or on MTurk, or go be a greeter at a tourist center, or something, because Gene, and I'm deadly serious now, nobody, nobody, nobody, is going to pick you up out of the pit you've so determinedly dug yourself into. You want to make money conning people, go work at a car lot or something.
Point is, you want out, son, you've got to pick yourself up and WORK at it.
Never happening. Gene has made it pretty clear that any reasonable job (that he would be able to do) is beneath him. The ride sharing has always been a means for him to justify having a car which is way beyond his means (- when he doesn't even need an old banger).
He may have done some rides for Uber or Lyft but it is quite clear that he never did anything regular and certainly not enough to count as a job - also remember the offer from Bob - we know he will do anything for money so that proved that there was no driving happening at the time.
Gene is one of the laziest a**holes I've ever come across and he doesn't even seem to have a problem indirectly admitting it - any job suggestion he gets will fall on deaf ears, there will always be an excuse why he can't do it - if you really push him in private then he will admit that it is beneath him.
He has no discernable qualifications or talent, yet he expects that if you do recommend a job it is something high level like a doctor, lawyer, managerial level post. This is the level of delusion that you are dealing with when it comes to Schemey.
He expects the money and status without the cost or years spent learning, training, apprenticing and finally practicing.
His ideal job would be a managerial style post with very little actual work, lots of people working beneath him so he doesn't have to lift a finger and a massive paycheck - even though no such job exists. His concept of work is just like a small child.
I think all hope for Gene was probably lost when his brother died and he didn't get a large chunk of the fortune.
In Gene's entitled prick of a mind, that money was his and he has likely resented it ever since. He has likely always been a grifter but I think that was probably the point at which his entitlement knob got turned up to 11.
He decided that "fate" or the "universe" had screwed him out of that money and he would never stop in trying to get "his" money back out of the rest of the world.
The most delicious irony is that had Gene been a decent person his brother wouldn't have cut him off and he would have been "taken care of". Of course if he was a decent hard working person he probably wouldn't have needed it anyway.
I don't believe in garbage new age thinking like "the secret" but there is definite truth in the fact that how you treat people will eventually come back to you in most cases. Gene is without doubt a disgusting, selfish, scumbag parasite of a little man and his own behaviour screwed him out of a comfortable retirement.
Remember Gene you made things this way. It is all a function of your character and your actions. You learned nothing from your brother, indeed it is hard to believe that you could have been related to such a remarkable man, I can only imagine how much shame he felt over you.
As the eldest sibling - I'm so happy my brothers are good people who try to help others. I can't imagine the pain of having a criminal embarrassment of a little brother someone who was so bad that I would have to remove all traces of him from my life. Just another one of your victims.
So now Gene sits in his little false kingdom scheming over small parcels of money, his wig burning with entitled rage. All the while mini-me (Randall) is waiting for the right time to plunge the knife in so he can take charge of the poison chalice (Paracrud) himself.
Well it is tainted now, I suspect by the time Randall gets it his transformation into Crimberg Jr. will be complete and the two will be indistinguishable. The Grift will continue.