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Topic	Starting to think I'll have to consider military service.
Inferno Dive Dragoon 02/21/18 5:37:01 AM #20:	Rob Cesternino posted... How do you live and support yourself now? Do you live with relatives? Yes, I currently live with my aunt (dad's sister), before that it was my parents who have since passed away. (My dad died last October, less than two weeks after I turned 34.) Incidentally, my dad and step-mom had served in the Navy themselves, but they were never particularly encouraging about the idea of me enlisting in the military as well (Navy or otherwise). I imagine a large part of it had to do with me turning 18 just over a month after 9/11, so they were both in a tizzy about the idea of me being involved in any war. (In contrast to their own tours where, at best, my step-mom was deployed during Desert Storm but never saw any combat action.) All the following years with the body count still mounting in the Middle East didn't help their opinion. Of course for as much as they dismissed the idea of me going military, they weren't exactly the best source of help when it came to finding normal jobs either. Like, I didn't get my GED until was 23. Why? Because they legit didn't think I would need it because "oh nobody ever actually checks if you have one". And then there's my personal favorite; Cutting off our internet access for 2 years straight because it was "just a luxury" and then being flabbergasted that I couldn't do any job applications because literally everybody only does online ones now. And this was all years after my dad and biological mom thought it would be a great idea to pull me from public school after the 3rd grade and home school me and my mom, the self-designated teacher, being a high school drop-out herself after she got knocked up with my older half-sister. (Subsequently, a good number of those years getting my GED was just trying to unfuck my education to something actually viable.) Suffice to say, practically none of the adults in my life growing up ever made any smart or helpful decisions (for my sake anyway), and even after I reached adulthood they never really got their shit together ultimately culminating in their mostly self-inflicted deaths, my mom and step-mom going out from heart problems because they gave zero fucks about their diets, and my dad finally succumbing to his smoking habit. It's to a point where I don't even understand why they bothered having kids if they were going to be so terrible at actually preparing them for anything, and then blaming me and said siblings when we couldn't just "figure it out like they did" by the time they got old and ill. --- Les aristocrates a la lanterne! Les aristocrates on les pendra! <cite>Inferno Dive Dragoon posted [p:896483686] in Starting t... [t:76341754]...</cite> <quote><cite>Rob Cesternino posted...</cite> <quote>How do you live and support yourself now? Do you live with relatives?</quote> Yes, I currently live with my aunt (dad's sister), before that it was my parents who have since passed away. (My dad died last October, less than two weeks after I turned 34.) Incidentally, my dad and step-mom had served in the Navy themselves, but they were never particularly encouraging about the idea of me enlisting in the military as well (Navy or otherwise). I imagine a large part of it had to do with me turning 18 just over a month after 9/11, so they were both in a tizzy about the idea of me being involved in any war. (In contrast to their own tours where, at best, my step-mom was deployed during Desert Storm but never saw any combat action.) All the following years with the body count still mounting in the Middle East didn't help their opinion. Of course for as much as they dismissed the idea of me going military, they weren't exactly the best source of help when it came to finding normal jobs either. Like, I didn't get my GED until was 23. Why? Because they legit didn't think I would need it because "oh nobody ever actually checks if you have one". And then there's my personal favorite; Cutting off our internet access for 2 years straight because it was "just a luxury" and then being flabbergasted that I couldn't do any job applications because literally everybody only does online ones now. And this was all years after my dad and biological mom thought it would be a great idea to pull me from public school after the 3rd grade and home school me and my mom, the self-designated teacher, being a high school drop-out herself after she got knocked up with my older half-sister. (Subsequently, a good number of those years getting my GED was just trying to unfuck my education to something actually viable.) Suffice to say, practically none of the adults in my life growing up ever made any smart or helpful decisions (for my sake anyway), and even after I reached adulthood they never really got their shit together ultimately culminating in their mostly self-inflicted deaths, my mom and step-mom going out from heart problems because they gave zero fucks about their diets, and my dad finally succumbing to his smoking habit. It's to a point where I don't even understand why they bothered having kids if they were going to be so terrible at actually preparing them for anything, and then blaming me and said siblings when we couldn't just "figure it out like they did" by the time they got old and ill. --- Les aristocrates a la lanterne! Les aristocrates on les pendra!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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