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- Grew up in a lower/working class family, where the most they ever made was $40k in a year (that was because of lots of overtime). - One brief time my parents were separated, my mom drove a car that had exhaust go into the car and lived in a shitbox apartment. - When I was 16, I was expected to work. Nobody wanted to hire me to the point where I was begging employers for work. Got a lovely retail job. - My parents expected me to work every free day I had. So when I was 17 during summer, after football practice, I'd work a factory job and during the weekend I'd be working my lovely retail job. I even worked on Christmas Day. - Life always went poo poo side up on me so the money I made from my two jobs often went as fast as I got it. Had to turn down homecoming court (I did have some friends) because I had no money to get a suit and my parents refused to lend me any money. Wound up working the night of the homecoming dance my senior year. I contemplated ending it all that night (glad I didn't). - I was so depressed and angry that I never bothered applying for scholarships so I went to school taking out loans. Loans piled up fast. I would work but school being expensive as it was, it was never enough so it kept adding. Felt hopeless at times. - Graduated right when the economy turned to poo poo in 2008. I got a good job offer but it involved working in a town that I absolutely hated. - I hated the town so much I worked constantly to make the days go by faster (I had an Xbox 360 that kept producing disc read errors so not much time playing games). I got in at 6 AM and left around 7 PM. Worked weekends too. Management noticed and started putting me on committees, which raised my profile. - Got a promotion to management by age 25, which was unheard of where I worked. I think I worked even more than I did before. Finally was able to move out of the hellhole I was living at. - Got another promotion a year and a half later, which pushed me over six figures and allowed me to move to somewhere decent for a change. - Took evening classes to get my MBA. I didn't think it was very valuable but I took it seriously and got a lot out of the experience. - During that time I got another promotion when I was 28. Finally paid off my gargantuan student loans around this time. I also started investing into my 401k, IRA, HSA, etc. Something I should have done much sooner but anyway I started. - Early this month I got another promotion to where I'm one of the youngest people with my title. I'm fortunate to get the opportunities that I have but I had to grind hard to get it. Many times it felt totally hopeless and wanted to end it all. The Experiment fucked around with this message at 17:09 on May 29, 2017 |
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