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🧵 on how I got where I am today, seems appropriate for #PainMonth:
At 16yo I was a senior in high school & sophomore in college, simultaneously.
At 18, w/ a double major & a minor within 2 semesters of #graduation, I quit college. I knew it wasn’t for me.
Do I regret it?
At 16yo I was a senior in high school & sophomore in college, simultaneously.
At 18, w/ a double major & a minor within 2 semesters of #graduation, I quit college. I knew it wasn’t for me.
Do I regret it?
1st A bit about happened next:
I joined the #army to follow in my dad & grandpas footsteps.
Was seriously injured in the 1st half of training yet kept pushing. I made it through but needed extensive surgery & physical rehab & still have #Pain.
I came home feeling I failed.
I joined the #army to follow in my dad & grandpas footsteps.
Was seriously injured in the 1st half of training yet kept pushing. I made it through but needed extensive surgery & physical rehab & still have #Pain.
I came home feeling I failed.
Once I was home & healing, I turned the page.
I spent next years climbing a corporate ladder, making over $100k/yr at 20.
And I HATED every second of it!
I happily accepted a promotion to ‘head cook & chief bottle-washer’. I was married & raising a healthy baby girl.
I spent next years climbing a corporate ladder, making over $100k/yr at 20.
And I HATED every second of it!
I happily accepted a promotion to ‘head cook & chief bottle-washer’. I was married & raising a healthy baby girl.
@scottsantens @brikeilarcnn @EvanMcS Their kids are foster kids too. (It’s not clear if it’s 7 or 9 of them are) but they get $800 per kid at minimum per month(rate goes up to 2700 depending on need.) So that’s $5600-7200 per MONTH.
@scottsantens @brikeilarcnn @EvanMcS FYI #fosterkids can attest to this- this is so damn common where people take in a large number of kids, they are getting thousands per month, and uh guess how much of it the kid ever sees? You also get free lunch/breakfast at school. I’m just sayin- numbers don’t add up here.
@scottsantens @brikeilarcnn @EvanMcS I’m not saying kids aren’t expensive and that covers anything but it’s fucking red flag city when you see people taking in 4-5+ kids (that aren’t one sibling group.) No way in shit they are emotionally available for 7-9 kids who have/are going through trauma.
