When I think back, if I had just life seriously, I'd have been in honors classes, and would have had a big scholarship, and be an Eagle Scout, and would already have a degree. Then again I started out in Computer Science, so I would have a useless degree by now.
Shit, 5 years ago I was in about the same place I am now. Renting the same house from my grandparents, was with my wife (though we were just dating at the time), I had the same job I do now. I was a 22 year old highschool dropout with no goals in life at all. My grandmother was alive though and I would go and talk to her almost every day, if for no other reason than she still made me lunch. I'd like to think I'm smarter than I was then, but sometimes I wonder. I am attempting to teach myself a variety of things now, though I think there are too many things I want to learn and do and not enough time in the day to do it all.
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5 years ago, I was still kind of blundering about trying to figure out what I was doing with my life and buying too many comics. I finally figured out a way to get a degree in something people were looking for, and now I have a job, but I'm mostly still blundering around. I know that I don't want to do this job forever. It's the figuring out what's next part that's the problem.
5 years ago, I was still kind of blundering about trying to figure out what I was doing with my life and buying too many comics. I finally figured out a way to get a degree in something people were looking for, and now I have a job, but I'm mostly still blundering around. I know that I don't want to do this job forever. It's the figuring out what's next part that's the problem.
Well five years ago I was 17 and in high school, doing pretty poorly. Then a year later my mother said she won the lottery but actually didn't. Then I barely graduated high school and decided to say fuck it and went to a college that could've been pretty fucking terrible. I did that for 2 years, graduated with a bachelor's and a 3.0 GPA and then moved back in with my dad, worked retail and IT for about a solid year before going to PAX for the first time. It was there I met a guy from ArenaNet and I showed him my reel and a couple months later I got an internship at the place so now I'm here working on a videogame.
Well five years ago I was 17 and in high school, doing pretty poorly. Then a year later my mother said she won the lottery but actually didn't. Then I barely graduated high school and decided to say fuck it and went to a college that could've been pretty fucking terrible. I did that for 2 years, graduated with a bachelor's and a 3.0 GPA and then moved back in with my dad, worked retail and IT for about a solid year before going to PAX for the first time. It was there I met a guy from ArenaNet and I showed him my reel and a couple months later I got an internship at the place so now I'm here working on a videogame.
I didn't post in SE++ when this happened. What's the story behind that?
I think it was 5 years ago that I decided on my 10 Year Plan For Getting Paid. Granted it's changed a bit (I was planning on teaching in remote areas of Australia but now I'm a training coordinator in the mining industry) but it's all going to plan.
Generally it's been incredibly positive up until now, so hopefully the next 5 years turn out the same
Well five years ago I was 17 and in high school, doing pretty poorly. Then a year later my mother said she won the lottery but actually didn't. Then I barely graduated high school and decided to say fuck it and went to a college that could've been pretty fucking terrible. I did that for 2 years, graduated with a bachelor's and a 3.0 GPA and then moved back in with my dad, worked retail and IT for about a solid year before going to PAX for the first time. It was there I met a guy from ArenaNet and I showed him my reel and a couple months later I got an internship at the place so now I'm here working on a videogame.
also i made you go to PAX, so I have a 50% stake on all future returns
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nevilleThe Worst Gay(Seriously. The Worst!)Registered Userregular
I would totally beat up mopey teenager high school tlb
I want a time machine to do this
alternatively you could change the timeline so he became a badass much earlier than he was supposed to
and then you could team up to do stuff
think about it
or do gay stuff.
wait if its yourself, even your past self, is it still gay?
i mean, not that it is stopping me. just curious what the classification would be.
Last week was my five year anniversary at my first, and so far only, real job. I'm a software engineer at a large company in Silicon Valley. So this time 5 years ago, it was my second week at work, I had just moved to California from Atlanta (really from Alabama but I had spent most of the previous 3.5 years in Atlanta for college). I was 21.
Once things settled down from being new at work, apparently at some point I decided to post on the forums, discovered my username was somehow already taken, and then realized that the person who had taken it was me, and started lurking. Mostly G&T at first but at some point I came over here, and at some point I started posting more.
Since then, I haven't really changed that much I don't think. I've always been pretty mature. My career is going well and I have friends. I'm still sort of failing at relationships with the opposite sex, which I something I need to change over the next five years.
Well five years ago I was 17 and in high school, doing pretty poorly. Then a year later my mother said she won the lottery but actually didn't. Then I barely graduated high school and decided to say fuck it and went to a college that could've been pretty fucking terrible. I did that for 2 years, graduated with a bachelor's and a 3.0 GPA and then moved back in with my dad, worked retail and IT for about a solid year before going to PAX for the first time. It was there I met a guy from ArenaNet and I showed him my reel and a couple months later I got an internship at the place so now I'm here working on a videogame.
I didn't post in SE++ when this happened. What's the story behind that?
Also the AreaNet thing is awesome!
Basically my mother fell for the Prince of Nigeria scheme except through online dating and then told me she won the lottery so I made a thread about it and then basically you can watch in that thread as I slowly fall into madness.
That coupled with the shit my mother pulled on xmas it's safe to say she's completely batshit bonkers.
Well five years ago I was 17 and in high school, doing pretty poorly. Then a year later my mother said she won the lottery but actually didn't. Then I barely graduated high school and decided to say fuck it and went to a college that could've been pretty fucking terrible. I did that for 2 years, graduated with a bachelor's and a 3.0 GPA and then moved back in with my dad, worked retail and IT for about a solid year before going to PAX for the first time. It was there I met a guy from ArenaNet and I showed him my reel and a couple months later I got an internship at the place so now I'm here working on a videogame.
I didn't post in SE++ when this happened. What's the story behind that?
Also the AreaNet thing is awesome!
Have a look in the forum archives.
Just go through the pages and Ctrl F to find veretas' posts.
Well five years ago I was 17 and in high school, doing pretty poorly. Then a year later my mother said she won the lottery but actually didn't. Then I barely graduated high school and decided to say fuck it and went to a college that could've been pretty fucking terrible. I did that for 2 years, graduated with a bachelor's and a 3.0 GPA and then moved back in with my dad, worked retail and IT for about a solid year before going to PAX for the first time. It was there I met a guy from ArenaNet and I showed him my reel and a couple months later I got an internship at the place so now I'm here working on a videogame.
also i made you go to PAX, so I have a 50% stake on all future returns
oh hay so there may be a thing for you possibly in the future to happen possibly maybe
Well five years ago I was 17 and in high school, doing pretty poorly. Then a year later my mother said she won the lottery but actually didn't. Then I barely graduated high school and decided to say fuck it and went to a college that could've been pretty fucking terrible. I did that for 2 years, graduated with a bachelor's and a 3.0 GPA and then moved back in with my dad, worked retail and IT for about a solid year before going to PAX for the first time. It was there I met a guy from ArenaNet and I showed him my reel and a couple months later I got an internship at the place so now I'm here working on a videogame.
I didn't post in SE++ when this happened. What's the story behind that?
Also the AreaNet thing is awesome!
Basically my mother fell for the Prince of Nigeria scheme except through online dating and then told me she won the lottery so I made a thread about it and then basically you can watch in that thread as I slowly fall into madness.
That coupled with the shit my mother pulled on xmas it's safe to say she's completely batshit bonkers.
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I didn't post it but I
we already have a happy thread
Yeah Sheri, gawd.
I got some stories
Now everyone read my er tweets
but http://www.twitter.com/emergenteric
I shared it with some art student
and the reason I hate humanity
This thread is doing good things for my emotional well-being.
no
There are so many times, in retrospect, I could've gotten laid that I didn't.
Why, younger me. Sure, now we're fine. But you could've gotten laid so much more.
I want a time machine to do this
I keep saying "I need to tweet more" but I don't have anything I can talk about that people are likely to care about, so meh.
make me a STAR
Write
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4 years ago I made the lottery thread
Though this is about 5 years ago
Well five years ago I was 17 and in high school, doing pretty poorly. Then a year later my mother said she won the lottery but actually didn't. Then I barely graduated high school and decided to say fuck it and went to a college that could've been pretty fucking terrible. I did that for 2 years, graduated with a bachelor's and a 3.0 GPA and then moved back in with my dad, worked retail and IT for about a solid year before going to PAX for the first time. It was there I met a guy from ArenaNet and I showed him my reel and a couple months later I got an internship at the place so now I'm here working on a videogame.
hey satan...: thinkgeek amazon My post |
I didn't post in SE++ when this happened. What's the story behind that?
Also the AreaNet thing is awesome!
alternatively you could change the timeline so he became a badass much earlier than he was supposed to
and then you could team up to do stuff
think about it
Generally it's been incredibly positive up until now, so hopefully the next 5 years turn out the same
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
all of the spambots shall adore ye!
also i made you go to PAX, so I have a 50% stake on all future returns
or do gay stuff.
wait if its yourself, even your past self, is it still gay?
i mean, not that it is stopping me. just curious what the classification would be.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Last week was my five year anniversary at my first, and so far only, real job. I'm a software engineer at a large company in Silicon Valley. So this time 5 years ago, it was my second week at work, I had just moved to California from Atlanta (really from Alabama but I had spent most of the previous 3.5 years in Atlanta for college). I was 21.
Once things settled down from being new at work, apparently at some point I decided to post on the forums, discovered my username was somehow already taken, and then realized that the person who had taken it was me, and started lurking. Mostly G&T at first but at some point I came over here, and at some point I started posting more.
Since then, I haven't really changed that much I don't think. I've always been pretty mature. My career is going well and I have friends. I'm still sort of failing at relationships with the opposite sex, which I something I need to change over the next five years.
Basically my mother fell for the Prince of Nigeria scheme except through online dating and then told me she won the lottery so I made a thread about it and then basically you can watch in that thread as I slowly fall into madness.
That coupled with the shit my mother pulled on xmas it's safe to say she's completely batshit bonkers.
hey satan...: thinkgeek amazon My post |
Have a look in the forum archives.
Just go through the pages and Ctrl F to find veretas' posts.
It's totally worth the effort.
Satans..... hints.....
oh hay so there may be a thing for you possibly in the future to happen possibly maybe
It is the year of the dragon now after all.
hey satan...: thinkgeek amazon My post |
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/51196/so-my-mom-won-the-lottery
I think the part where you found out it was a scam was later on in a different thread?
Satans..... hints.....