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cherylpf
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 Posted: 06/07/05 - 10:23 Post subject:
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Come now, you've changed the whole future direction of your life! No longer are you content to sit in a Houston High Rise overlooking rabid pigeons and birds. |
well, yeah, besides that tiny little life encompassing detail that I may have forgotten...  
Truthfully though, I think I knew 5 years ago I didn't want to do anything like this, and I was trying to find ways to do pharmaceutical sales (with no experience--impossible) as a way to venture into healthcare.
In the last 20 years I did decide the taste of paste and bonne bell lip smackers isn't that fantastic.
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HighHeat
Big Daddy
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Posts: 6682
Location: Out of the frying pan, and into the fire.
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Posted: 06/07/05 - 10:28 Post subject:
5 years: +2 kids, -135 lbs, a realization of the direction I want my career (and life) to go in.
lesson learned: developed an appreciation for the small things that often go by unnoticed in life, and a drive to experience life as best I can.
10 years: dealt with a "career ending" injury. got married. graduated college.
lesson learned: realized that persistence and determination will win out over intelligence and ingenuity..and that if you have all 4, you have the world by the proverbial balls.
15 years: moved from small-town Maine to Boston. realized that a big fish in a small pond could still be a big fish in a bigger pond.
lesson learned: discovered that whenever something doesn't go according to plan, it leads to either a growth experience, a great story, or both.
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phillycat
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Location: Da hood
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Posted: 06/07/05 - 10:49 Post subject:
5 years - finished MBA and realized that higher ed was where I wanted to stay. Met someone who I can truely be myself around and married him. Realized that having a few good friends is worth a lot. Became comfortable with who I am both mentally and physically.
10 years - was in a terrible abusive realtionship. Realized that I could be strong and didn't need to put up with someone elses BS. Got to see the world and learn more about other people who are so happy with so little.
15 years - lost my dad to cancer and mentally lost my mom to clinical depression. learned that i was truely on my own and that i would be ok.
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HYPERASHEL
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Location: The South's Sauna, Atlanta
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Posted: 06/07/05 - 12:14 Post subject:
Hmmmmm, wow talk about Changes
1985 Graduation, last time i play a musical intrument
joined the Army,
basic training, (ok with my parent's not much change)
Advanced training in Tx in the Winter, and my first cuncussion
Then Stationed in Kansas with a MASH unit.
Got married had two kids
redeveloped my passion for fish tanks
went to Germany and Bolivia
got divorced
1990 Went to Korea-Bad Skiing accident, hurt my knee
went DC- Research Lab
where i figured out i would never euthanise again
became allergic to planet Earth, 9 shots a week for a
year 
1993 Left the ARMY-joined Gaurd and Civilian work
told knee would never run again, a cane by mid-30-s
1994 picked up inline skating and the internet
1996 first skate race, an ametuer series race in DC
1998 my first A2A 87 miles on skate race
2000 left all military behind
2002 moved to Atlanta, Ga, broke off all communications with my
family
2005 can't get that stupid song out of my head 
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airehead
Oompa Loofah
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Posts: 18788
Location: Between here and eternity...
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Posted: 06/07/05 - 22:51 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: |
well, yeah, besides that tiny little life encompassing detail that I may have forgotten...
Truthfully though, I think I knew 5 years ago I didn't want to do anything like this, and I was trying to find ways to do pharmaceutical sales (with no experience--impossible) as a way to venture into healthcare.
In the last 20 years I did decide the taste of paste and bonne bell lip smackers isn't that fantastic. |
Even compared to Cracklin' Oat Bran?
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TimRuns
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Location: Coquitlam, British Columbia
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Posted: 06/07/05 - 23:30 Post subject:
21 years ago-I was just a little baby-literally
15 years ago- took up piano lessons
9 years ago- moved to Canada from Singapore
5.5 years ago- took up running
4 years ago-graduated from high school
Most recent- graduated from college
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tdassow
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Location: Way up North...
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Posted: 06/08/05 - 01:52 Post subject:
Having three wonderful boys has changed me in countless ways......
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JUJR
Grunt
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Joined: 20 Feb 2005
Posts: 1970
Location: www.johnnydu.com
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Posted: 06/08/05 - 06:53 Post subject:
Pretty much my whole life was divided into black and white...you either were, or weren't, did or didn't(fill in your own conversation here...it really makes no difference what subject).
Now I've realized the world is a whole lotta grey area in different shades.
Patience, tolerance, kindness.....still working on, but improving slightly 
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