Teenagers. Don’t you just love ‘em? My daughter recently turned 16, and to say she’s having a rebellious stage would be an understatement. She was never into the whole boy thing, and I don’t think she’s experimenting with drugs or anything like that. Her real problem is stealing. She’s my little kleptomaniac, but damned if I don’t love her with all of my heart. From the moment she was born, she was my pride and joy. Never someone I could really say no to. However, with this new phase she’s going through, I find the two of us arguing more than we ever have in my life. I’m not just gonna stand around and let her take money from her mother’s purse, nor am I going to allow her to run off with the car in the middle of the night without so much as asking us. It’s gotten pretty vicious. I hate it. I hate it more than I’ve ever hated anything. It’s one of those things where the anger doesn’t really stem from her, personally. It’s just so hard to see her like this. That’s what makes it frustra...
I’m graduating in may this year with a bachelors in mechanical engineering. When I joined college I wasn’t ready I was a loser. Failed all my classes freshman fall. Put on academic probation, freshman spring I passed all of them but bad grades. So still probation. Sophomore fall I did a little better but since my gpa was already so low I was still in probation lol. So 1 1/2 years in probation. Sophomore spring, grinded like 12 hour days every day for the semester. It was the most mentally challenging thing I ever did. I had bad fundamentals and was desperate to stay in school. That was my first semester with actual A’s and B’s. Mind you sophomore spring is when you reach the hard classes and my fundamentals were already bad. Took a gap year , I was starting to have panic attacks even tho I did good and got out of probation (barely) so I took a gap year. Got an operator job at a CNC shop like 18hr. With overtime made 45k. I was able to pay off like 80% of my current debt (first 2 years...