so you deffo weren't cranking out loads in the oh seven
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Garlic Breadi'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm aRegistered User, Disagreeableregular
I'm genuinely wondering
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Garlic Breadi'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm aRegistered User, Disagreeableregular
my boner could get through your field, though
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nevilleThe Worst Gay(Seriously. The Worst!)Registered Userregular
edited January 2012
5 years ago I had just "delurked" and begun posting.
I was 27, lived in Seattle, and was working at either the startup company or Big Fish and was preparing to return to school for game programming.
Now I live in SoCal, which has nicer weather, but I miss all my friends from Seattle.
I am working at the job of my dreams, which I wouldn't have imagined possible if you had told me 5 years ago!
Five years ago I was living in Tanzania, and by that point in the year I was beginning to actually enjoy it. Weirdest year ever. Oh, and I was 13 and kind of a dumbass but learning lessons on life
Five years ago I was married, living in Eugene, and working on my master's degree. I was pretty miserable for the most part. In hindsight, my divorce was one of the best things to happen to me.
My life isn't great now, but I don't live with an emotionally abusive crzay person.
5 years ago I was 13 in 7th grade, mostly friendless and fatter. I'm at a lower weight now than I was in midfle school, haha. Life was pretty bad up until this last year really. Maybe ill go into detail when im not posting from phone.
I was 21 (22 in march), got kicked out of university, girlfriend broke up with me, moved to Alberta with some friends on a whim. After a couple shitty jobs I got an ok one at IBM, and that takes me to the end of that year. Alberta was good times.
Now: Almost done college, have a job interview lined up with a company where if I get hired, I will be set for life. Moved back in with my parents which sucks.... but I'll be into my own place before the end of this year.
So yeah, I had some fuck ups but now things are looking up!
In January of 2007, I was 25 years old and we had been living in the Seattle area for just over a year. I still wasn't able to work due to my Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue and was stuck at home most of the time, but my health was improving. By the time June rolled around, my health had improved to a point that I knew I could handle a part-time office job. Within a couple weeks I had my first "adult" job working for a structural engineer. This was a really big deal because I hadn't expected to ever be able to work a steady job. I ended up with the best boss ever, which was fully proven when I got very sick 1.5 years later and was once again stuck at home. I couldn't work at all for several months and my boss just kept telling me to focus on getting well. After a year of tests and doctors and very few answers I recovered enough to work from home. My boss set me up so I could telecommute and I worked when I was able over the next 6 months. Unfortunately, with the economy as it was, he had to lay off both of us employees. The timing really sucked because my hubby was between jobs, a friend who was in a tough spot was living with us, and we now had zero income coming in. I was honestly scared that we would end up homeless.
I pushed myself to find a full-time job, and ended up with two part-time jobs. One was working retail and the other was working from home doing web/marketing stuff, so it seemed as ideal as it could get. About a month after starting my new jobs my hubby got his current job. It was a good thing too because two months later I was laid off from the retail job for "economic reasons," again. At this point I saw I had a choice. Get another part-time job or finally go back to school. Since job #2 allowed me to work a flexible schedule, I saw it as my best chance to be able to go back to school and finish my degree in Web Development, so I took it. Two months into the quarter I realized how silly it was to be pursuing a degree in a field that I didn't intend to work in long term. It was what I had always done and I was good at it, but I wasn't passionate about the work. What I really wanted was to pursue my jewelry business and music and maybe open a store someday, so I changed degree programs to a double major of Entrepreneurship and Music. I kept working job #2, but it just wasn't going well. For whatever reason we had difficulty working together and I was miserable. After much discussion and internal debate, I quit my job in order to give my jewelry business a real chance to become something more than just a hobby. It was the scariest, hardest decision I've ever made, but it was also the best. I now go to school full-time and run my own business. I love what I do and I'm happier than I've ever been!
In the last 5 years I went from being stuck at home to running my own business while being a full-time student. I never in a million years would have thought I'd be doing what I do or as much as I do today. The last 5 years are proof that things can and will get better if you work hard to make it happen. Just keep pushing through and you will get there!
Lessee... five years ago I was 18 and had been living out here for about two months, was fully snared by WoW, and just starting at the community college. I fully withdrew from CSU Humboldt because I knew I was going to fail spectacularly and probably did not have it in me to stay off academic probation, and knew I would wind up in prison if I had to live with my brother again, so moving out to Maui and living with Mom was the best choice I had. I was in better shape back then, still needed the glasses, but about 20 pounds lighter and mostly muscle instead of fat. Socially dead, but I moved 3000 miles so that wasn't surprising...
Fast forward and I'm still at the comm college, but I've finally got what I need to transfer to the university on Oahu, including some notion of what I want to actually do with my life, I've reconnected with a lot of friends from high school, and I'm counting the days until I quit playing WoW. Have had a job for most of the last five years, one of them continuously since October 2007, and I'm almost done with that too. I'm better at troubleshooting computers, can do minor auto repair, haven't fallen into a depressed funk in a long time, and can talk to people more easily. Still bad when it comes to girls though.
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Garlic Breadi'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm aRegistered User, Disagreeableregular
5 years ago I didn't tell people to show me their dongs
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Big Red Tiebeautiful clydesdale style feettoo hot to trotRegistered Userregular
5 years ago I was still eating gluten and thus, basically whatever the fuck I wanted
today: No gluten. I haven't had a single beer in over a year. Honest to god some days I just fucking crave it. I barely drink alcohol as it is, I'm nothing close to an alcoholic. I just want a fucking beer
that GF crap isn't a proper substitute for taste
I am horrified that one day I will actually forget what beer tastes like completely
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I was 27, lived in Seattle, and was working at either the startup company or Big Fish and was preparing to return to school for game programming.
Now I live in SoCal, which has nicer weather, but I miss all my friends from Seattle.
I am working at the job of my dreams, which I wouldn't have imagined possible if you had told me 5 years ago!
Come a looooong way since then
ever
It was, uh, simpler times? I'unno.
I'm almost 18 now and really don't what to do with my life in the future.
Whoa.
Steam
My life isn't great now, but I don't live with an emotionally abusive crzay person.
Steam
you really should've become a yeti
definitely
it was a bizarre hybrid between Elementary and High, with the best and worst of both
I proposed to her 3 days later
Drove a friend and I to school for the first time today.
five years ago he wasn't even a twinkle in some dude's eye
Thanks for the reminder @Vivixenne
You should maybe not read my posts under you're an adult a lot of this content is deeply inappropriate for someone of your tender years
I was 21 (22 in march), got kicked out of university, girlfriend broke up with me, moved to Alberta with some friends on a whim. After a couple shitty jobs I got an ok one at IBM, and that takes me to the end of that year. Alberta was good times.
Now: Almost done college, have a job interview lined up with a company where if I get hired, I will be set for life. Moved back in with my parents which sucks.... but I'll be into my own place before the end of this year.
So yeah, I had some fuck ups but now things are looking up!
Also holy shit, youngins
I pushed myself to find a full-time job, and ended up with two part-time jobs. One was working retail and the other was working from home doing web/marketing stuff, so it seemed as ideal as it could get. About a month after starting my new jobs my hubby got his current job. It was a good thing too because two months later I was laid off from the retail job for "economic reasons," again. At this point I saw I had a choice. Get another part-time job or finally go back to school. Since job #2 allowed me to work a flexible schedule, I saw it as my best chance to be able to go back to school and finish my degree in Web Development, so I took it. Two months into the quarter I realized how silly it was to be pursuing a degree in a field that I didn't intend to work in long term. It was what I had always done and I was good at it, but I wasn't passionate about the work. What I really wanted was to pursue my jewelry business and music and maybe open a store someday, so I changed degree programs to a double major of Entrepreneurship and Music. I kept working job #2, but it just wasn't going well. For whatever reason we had difficulty working together and I was miserable. After much discussion and internal debate, I quit my job in order to give my jewelry business a real chance to become something more than just a hobby. It was the scariest, hardest decision I've ever made, but it was also the best. I now go to school full-time and run my own business. I love what I do and I'm happier than I've ever been!
In the last 5 years I went from being stuck at home to running my own business while being a full-time student. I never in a million years would have thought I'd be doing what I do or as much as I do today. The last 5 years are proof that things can and will get better if you work hard to make it happen. Just keep pushing through and you will get there!
Making: LuvCherie Jewelry
Writing: Fibropreneur.com
Shopping: Amazon Wishes
Socializing: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Gaming: Xbox Live, Playstation, Steam
I was senior class vice president, drama club president and knowledge bowl vice president.
I was also a fiend a monster. Most of my most insidious acts were in 2006-2007.
Just the month before, I had flown up to Nebraska to propose to Sier so I was starting to look for something more stable.
Now, I'm happily married and enjoying my life.
Still the same actually just floating measly through college I should grow up.
Fast forward and I'm still at the comm college, but I've finally got what I need to transfer to the university on Oahu, including some notion of what I want to actually do with my life, I've reconnected with a lot of friends from high school, and I'm counting the days until I quit playing WoW. Have had a job for most of the last five years, one of them continuously since October 2007, and I'm almost done with that too. I'm better at troubleshooting computers, can do minor auto repair, haven't fallen into a depressed funk in a long time, and can talk to people more easily. Still bad when it comes to girls though.
I go there I am in macroeconomics right now
today: No gluten. I haven't had a single beer in over a year. Honest to god some days I just fucking crave it. I barely drink alcohol as it is, I'm nothing close to an alcoholic. I just want a fucking beer
that GF crap isn't a proper substitute for taste
I am horrified that one day I will actually forget what beer tastes like completely