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Best: Earning my Master’s degree. For the last year of my program, I completed the degree while working 50-55 hours a week. I was drained for energy throughout. I even lost a relationship over it. But turning in that final paper, I knew I did something that tested me and kicked it’s a$&. All the people who thought all I’d ever be was a degenerate ahole were made liars that day. It felt like I climbed the biggest mountain in the world.
Dayum, that's good and brought me to my own grad school graduation: years ago, mid-career MBA (btw: get it done at 27, the median, not 39 as I did). My dad was there. We caught several spectacular pics. He passed not even two years later, of natural old-age causes. Yeah, I had to find 20-30 "extra" hours/week to get through grad school, too, which killed one relationship and one job, not at the same time. Pushed me right to the intellectual wall, and beyond: talk about learning teamwork! Worth it: oh my, yes, a decade on looking like will have 25 year payoff / ROI of (about) $900,000 in current dollars. Not a lot of investments we can say that about.
No one can take that Master's away, eh? Yep, me too: on my wall it's right there in black and white: Samuel Curtis Johnson School of Management @Cornell University hereby bestows and bequeaths..." Good for you. Good for me, too. Never have I been so immensely proud of graduating mid-pack at the Mensa meeting.
Thanks for the excellent memory.
Best: Meeting my husband.
Worst: Watching a dear friend die in May, and finding out another friend committed suicide recently. That makes 6 friends gone in the last 5 months all under the age of 63.
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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How does earning a degree change their thought of you as a DA? Why did they think you were that way in the first place?
I got into a lot of trouble from middle and high school before I moved away and changed schools. I was smart but had an attitude. Accomplishing something like that they can’t say I’m a just a big dumb thug.
Best - Isnt just one. Marrying my first wife, and marrying my second wife and the birth of my children.
Worst - Having the HP tell me my first wife and child were killed.
Best: With the death of my mother, my father decided to move to the United States.
Both events are tied together, both events forever change my life.
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