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A View From The Other Side (Fairly Long)
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<blockquote data-quote="DarkwingPsyduck" data-source="post: 686959" data-attributes="member: 20267"><p>Rereading my post, and a few others, I realize I have been placing the blame elsewhere, and I shouldn't be. While I may have had some decent excuses for my lack of education, maturity, and skill before, I do not anymore. I now have EVERY opportunity you guys have provided for your own children, and it is up to me to make use of it. And I intend to. Not entirely sure how at this point, though... It is so hard to find something I would really like to do. As I said, I am not particularly skilled, and I have just missed out in so much this last 9 years. When I try to think about something I would really like to do, I come up blank. It wasn't a question I ever bothered to pose myself. Until rather recently, I didn't even have a plan to be alive. Not that I planned to die, I just kind of assumed I would. I should have, by all accounts. </p><p></p><p>At this moment, however, even working isn't in the cards. My aunt works 2 jobs, 80+ hours a week if you consider travel time from Reno to Carson and back numerous times a week. She is rarely home, and when she is, she sleeps. Something she should be doing much more often. Then my uncle works a day job, and does after hour drug testing. So he is on call all night. Somebody must be here when he does get a call for the baby. And that, of course, falls to me. Not complaining. I love the kid, and there's nothing I wouldn't do for my aunt and uncle, but it makes working kind of impossible. We start her in daycare in a few months, though.... The jobs I have had have all been heavy warehouse work. I will go back to that until I can think of something I would like to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DarkwingPsyduck, post: 686959, member: 20267"] Rereading my post, and a few others, I realize I have been placing the blame elsewhere, and I shouldn't be. While I may have had some decent excuses for my lack of education, maturity, and skill before, I do not anymore. I now have EVERY opportunity you guys have provided for your own children, and it is up to me to make use of it. And I intend to. Not entirely sure how at this point, though... It is so hard to find something I would really like to do. As I said, I am not particularly skilled, and I have just missed out in so much this last 9 years. When I try to think about something I would really like to do, I come up blank. It wasn't a question I ever bothered to pose myself. Until rather recently, I didn't even have a plan to be alive. Not that I planned to die, I just kind of assumed I would. I should have, by all accounts. At this moment, however, even working isn't in the cards. My aunt works 2 jobs, 80+ hours a week if you consider travel time from Reno to Carson and back numerous times a week. She is rarely home, and when she is, she sleeps. Something she should be doing much more often. Then my uncle works a day job, and does after hour drug testing. So he is on call all night. Somebody must be here when he does get a call for the baby. And that, of course, falls to me. Not complaining. I love the kid, and there's nothing I wouldn't do for my aunt and uncle, but it makes working kind of impossible. We start her in daycare in a few months, though.... The jobs I have had have all been heavy warehouse work. I will go back to that until I can think of something I would like to do. [/QUOTE]
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