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Ok... this is literally pretty much everything i've done since then.. wall of text ahead..a lot of you know this already im sure

Back in 2007/2008, I was barely around on the internet just because I was so busy with doing a bunch of academic and extracurricular stuff. I was a star cross country runner looking to have a breakout year my senior year. I was looking at top 10 in state easy. I ended up tearing a hip flexor by overtraining. I went to an intensive running camp and I was running with guys from the university of arkansas that could do a 5k in under 15mins. I overtraining and seriously fucked myself up. It fucked me up mentally too. I went from getting As to Cs, I quit a bunch of my clubs, quit the wrestling team, and just worked all the time. I recovered enough to place like 20th in regionals and that was it. I didn't run track that spring.

I went from getting e-mails from DIV I university recruiters to random schools I've never heard of in Montana. Honestly, I didn't give a shit about anything after my injury. I ended up pulling a full ride scholarship at OU with the NROTC program - how could you turn that down? It was my only prospect, even though I really didn't give a shit. I went to OU for a year, got a bunch of Cs and Ds. My GPA was 1.67 lmao. My entire life trajectory had changed. I went from being a boss to getting bossed around all the time by a bunch of bitchy ROTC fucks. It wasn't what I wanted to do and I really couldn't get over that.
Of course, I lost my scholarship. So I was 19 years old and didn't have any idea what I wanted to do. Then I watched the movie Hurt Locker. I decided I wanted to be a Navy EOD and defuse underwater bombs while diving for a living. EOD is spec ops. I trained with SEAL and SWCC prospects. We went through an extra intensive bootcamp (look up 800 division) designed to weed out the weak. Then I went to dive prep, which was incredibly difficult, and dropped out. I wasn't a strong enough swimmer. You have to be SUCH a good swimmer to make it in spec ops. That is never stressed enough. Imagine treading water for an hour with a m16 rifle over your head. If you can't make it the entire hour, you are dropped from the program. There are like 100 tests like this. I wasn't cut out for it and wasn't prepared enough as a swimmer.

So the navy is like aiight, you're kicked out of the EOD program, but you get to choose your next rate. I decided on.... IT. Imagine that - the field that 90% of you guys are in. I went to IT "A" school and became an IT. I was stationed on a destroyer that was out to see ~280 days a year. My job included a multitude of things - IT, help desk technician, sysadmin, and a ton of technical training on all of our different communication suites for internet and voice comms. We worked in a room called RADIO and it's just a room full of like 300 racks of different comms shit. We were in charge of the internet, all the IT shit. A team of 8 serving ~270 personnel. It wasn't too bad. We were out to sea a lot and I went to a shitton of countries. We had a 10 month deployment and hung out around syria a lot in 2013. it was fucked.

I got out of the navy after 4 years to use my GI Bill and go to college. I majored in Geology and Environmental Science. I graduated 1 year ago. Now I am an environmental specialist for a city. also i got married a couple years ago.

Dan - My wife and I were househunting when the whole quarantine shit happened. We decided to stop looking after the DOW dropped a shitton. With a recession expected, we didn't want to end up upside down on our loan. So we're renting for another year -____-. I want a fucking house. I just dont want to pay $250,000 for 1800 sqft and .2 acres. It's stupid expensive here right now.

m3th - sorry i made a gay joke when you came out. dick move prolly


Erik - man i cant wait to have kids. i can agree that you are a lot different than you were back then. i mean, we all are. i think it's mostly a maturity thing, same person, but knows how to act right lol. As far as coke, I was rich there for a while with pinballs, but I was never really in it to make cool studios or collect furni. For some reason, just socializing and fucking with coke was really cathartic for me. In the end, I exploited a ton of accounts and stole their furni. And one day coke shut down my account with everything on it.

Sifter - FUCK TARGET